Our final article on snow conditions for the season in the Western US is now available:
https://nsidc.org/reports/snow-today
This summer our team will work on adding new variables such as snow albedo (the reflective ability of snow) to help inform the rate of snowmelt. Snow Today will also analyze the albedo of dusty or dirty snow, which absorbs more solar energy and enhances melt. The team plans to refine the website by including maps and summaries at a finer scale (for example, HUC4, HUC6, and HUC8 basins) to allow more information to be discerned from our spatial maps. We will also expand our analysis to include other regions. High Mountain Asia will be included, and we hope to add the Canadian Rockies and Alaska.
Cheers,
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Karl Rittger
Research Associate
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
University of Colorado, Boulder
4001 Discovery Dr
Boulder, CO 80303 USA
Office: (303) 735-3433
Cell: (303) 579-5118
