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Historical simulated snowpack and other hydrometeorology data at 30 m for the Crown of the Continent and vicinity, United States and Canada, water years 1981-2020

This data release contains historical SnowModel (Liston and Elder, 2006) output for the Crown of the Continent and surrounding areas in Montana, USA; and Alberta and British Columbia, Canada from September 1, 1981 through August 31, 2020. Fifteen daily variables were simulated or derived for this release: (1) snow water equivalent (swed), (2) liquid precipitation (rpre), (3) solid precipitation (spre), (4) albedo (albd), (5) glacial ice melt (glmt), (6) total precipitation (prec), (7) runoff (roff), (8) snow covered area (sca), (9) snow density (sden), (10) snowmelt (smlt), (11) snow depth (snod), (12) snow sublimation (ssub), (13) air temperature (tair), (14) wind speed (wspd), and (15) wind direction (wdir). The simulation used to produce these outputs was conducted on a 30 m geospatial grid and was forced using meteorology from a recently completed (2023) 4 kilometer reanalysis product using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model covering the conterminous United States (CONUS404, Rasmussen and others, 2023a; 2023b). Land cover information for the simulation was provided by the 2016 National Land Cover Database (Jin and others, 2019) and 30 m elevation information was provided by the National Elevation Dataset (Gesch and others, 2018).

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Author(s) Theodore B Barnhart, Erich H Peitzsch orcid, Karen M Milone, Zachary S Miller orcid, Sheree J Watson
Publication Date 2023-11-27
Beginning Date of Data 1981
Ending Date of Data 2020
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9N5LP2H
Citation Barnhart, T.B., Peitzsch, E.H., Milone, K.M., Miller, Z.S., and Watson, S.J., 2023, Historical simulated snowpack and other hydrometeorology data at 30 m for the Crown of the Continent and vicinity, United States and Canada, water years 1981-2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9N5LP2H.
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Metadata Date 2023-11-27
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