SnowClim: Pre-industrial Snow Data

This resource contains snow metrics for the pre-industrial period and represents a subset of the SnowClim Dataset (https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/acc4f39ad6924a78811750043d59e5d0/). The SnowClim Dataset was developed following the methods presented in Lute et al., (in prep). The pre-industrial snow data was created by first downscaling 4 km climate forcings from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (Rasmussen and Liu, 2017) over a thirteen year period (1 Oct 2000 to 30 Sep 2013) and then perturbing the downscaled data using multi-model mean deltas from CMIP5 to create climate forcing data that reflects conditions during 1850-1879. This climate data was then used to force the SnowClim snow model. Snow model outputs were summarized into snow metrics at ~210 m spatial resolution for the western US.

Additional details about forcing data preparation, model physics, model calibration, and application to the western US domain can be found in:
Lute, A.C., Abatzoglou, J.T., and T. Link. “SnowClim: high resolution snow model and data for the Western United States.” In preparation for submission to Geoscientific Model Development.