Annual Snow Timing Index Rasters for the Western US and Alaska, WY2001-2019

Here, a collection of rasters describing annual snow onset (SO), snow cover duration (SCD), and day of snow disappearance (DSD) for WY2001-2019 over Alaska, Canada, and the Western United States (boundary box: -152W, -100W, 32N, 68N) are available. Units are in calendar Day of Year (DOY) for SO and DSD, and in days for SCD.

These data accompany a manuscript entitled, "Investigating the Relationship Between Peak Snow-Water Equivalent and Snow Timing Indices in the Western U.S. and Alaska". A diagnostic model of peak SWE as a function of remotely sensed snow timing indices (the dataset provided here) was developed in the course of this study to address the following questions: 1) Are peak SWE and snow timing related?; 2) How does this relationship vary across the western United States?; and 3) What meteorological and topographical conditions affect this relationship?