Future April 1 Snow Water Equivalent (CONUS) (Image Service)

The April Snow Water Equivalent data were modeled using the spatial analog models of Luce et al. [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2013WR014844] (see also https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017WR020752). These models are built on precipitation and snow data from Snowpack Telemetry (SNOTEL) stations across the western United States and temperature data from 1975-2005. To simulate historical and future gridded snow, the models ingest gridded winter cumulative precipitation and winter average temperature (from the MACAv2-Metdata dataset). We used the MACAv2-metdata monthly precipitation and minimum and maximum temperature datasets for the period 2071-2090 (RCP8.5). Average temperature was calculated as the arithmetic mean of minimum and maximum temperature datasets. Average temperature was averaged over the winter months (November through March) and precipitation was summed over the winter months. More information on the project associated with this dataset is available from the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station.

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