Historical Snow Simulation (Open Loop)

This dataset contains historical snow water equivalent (SWE) simulations, produced from the Hydrotel snow module fed with meteorological observations. The simulations are provided on a 10km by 10km grid covering the southern portion of the province of Quebec, Canada and used as a proxy of SWE climatology in our adaptation of the Schaake shuffle.. The grid for the historical SWE simulation covers -81.5 to -57.1 in longitude and 43 to 53.4 in latitude, which is smaller than the meteorological grids, but for the the common portion, the grids overlap. The SWE grid has is 105 (lat) x 245 (Lon), for a total of 25725 pixels. A total of 44 years are used to produce the historical grids (1961-2004), and +/- 7 days around each of the date is used, for a total of 44years x 15 days = 660 values for each day of the year. Therefore, the dimensions of the historical SWE data is 660 x 25 725, which represents "nb of sample days x grid points).