Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Snow Depth Measurements, 1955 - present

Snow measurements have been collected approximately weekly
during the winter season using transects adjacent to the
established network of standard rain gages from 1956 to the
present. Maximum snow depth, water content and snow cover
duration data are recorded at points along a transect known as a
“snow course”, which includes 10 points spaced at 2-m intervals
within a designated 0.25 ha area. Data from one course are
averaged for each collection date and snow water content is
scaled up to a whole watershed value.