SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Solid Precipitation

This dataset includes Solid Precipitation(spre) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Solid Precipitation is defined as snowfall(m/yr). The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.The dataset is delivered in the ZIP archive file format. Each year is output in a separate GeoTiff file, where the year is indicated by the filename.Over the last 20 years, under a variety of NOAA, NSF, and NASA research programs, a snow-evolution modeling system has been developed that includes the MicroMet micrometeorological model, the SnowModel snow-process model, and the SnowAssim data assimilation model. These modeling tools can be...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

Snow Cover Mapping Database for Central Wyoming/Lander 30 meter

Raster file of snow cover index at 30m pixel level developed from path36: 14 March, path 35: 1998, 3730: 2 February, 1986, and 1 February, 1998, Landsat images. These images were classified separately and then mosaicked together. Extent corresponds to the area of the Central Wyoming and Lander Extent mapping boundary. Snow classification ranges across five classes from 'No Snow' as class 1 and 'Complete Snow Coverage' as class 5.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable; Tags: Central Wyoming, Land Cover, Lander, Snow, Snow Cover, All tags... Wyoming, habitat, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, landcover, vegetation, Fewer tags

Estimating moose abundance at varying snow cover levels

Lack of complete snow cover for the past 3 winters in southwestern Alaska has forced agencies to postpone moose surveys due to the likelihood of underestimating the population/lack of comparability to previous surveys. Poor snow conditions lower the sightability of moose, yet, for most regions of Alaska, the variation in moose sightability during suboptimal conditions has not yet been quantified. Because scientists are predicting less snowfall in this region over the long term, we initiated research to estimate sightability correction factors (SCF_c) using radiocollared animals to apply to abundance estimates obtained via the GeoSpatial Population Estimator (GSPE) method. The Project Goal is to develop a model that...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2016, Academics & scientific researchers, Academics & scientific researchers, CALIBRATION/VALIDATION, CALIBRATION/VALIDATION, All tags... DEER/MOOSE, DEER/MOOSE, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Large mammals, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Monitoring, Policy makers & regulators, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Publication, Regional & county planners, Regional & county planners, Report, Report, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, State agencies, State agencies, Tribes, Tribes, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative, biota, biota, onGoing, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications (Alaska Arctic LCC Distributed Snow Property Datasets)

Understanding snow conditions is key to developing a better understanding of hydrologic, biological, and ecosystem processes at work in northern Alaska. The required snow datasets currently do not exist at spatial or temporal scales needed by end users such as scientists, land managers, and policy makers. There are a wide variety of snow datasets that may be generated by this project. The list of desired datasets will be refined based on input from potential end users. However, outputs could include daily spatial distributions spanning the spatial and temporal domains of interest of the following variables: air temperature, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, surface (skin) temperature, incoming solar radiation,...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Snow Density

This dataset includes Snow Density(sden) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Snow Density is defined as density on 1 March(kg/m3). The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.The dataset is delivered in the ZIP archive file format. Each year is output in a separate GeoTiff file, where the year is indicated by the filename.Over the last 20 years, under a variety of NOAA, NSF, and NASA research programs, a snow-evolution modeling system has been developed that includes the MicroMet micrometeorological model, the SnowModel snow-process model, and the SnowAssim data assimilation model. These modeling tools can be thought...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

Modeling snowdrift habitat for polar bear dens

Throughout the Arctic most pregnant polar bears (Ursus maritimus) construct maternity dens in seasonal snowdrifts that form in wind-shadowed areas. We developed and verified a spatial snowdrift polar bearden habitat model (SnowDens-3D) that predicts snowdrift locations and depths along Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast. SnowDens-3D integrated snow physics, weather data, and a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) to produce predictions of the timing, distribution, and growth of snowdrifts suitable for polar bear dens. SnowDens-3D assimilated 18 winters (1995 through 2012) of observed daily meteorological data and a 2.5 m grid-increment DEM covering 337.5 km2 of the Beaufort Sea coast, and described the snowdrift...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, ANIMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, BEARS, BEARS, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Publication, REGULATORY MODELS, REGULATORY MODELS, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, State agencies, TOPOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, biota, biota, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Daily 30-m fractional snow covered area and summary stats for the National Elk Refuge, Wyoming from 2015 to 2020

This dataset contains daily fractional snow covered area (fSCA) at 30-m spatial resolution from August 1, 2015 - May 15, 2020 (five winters) for the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming, USA. The following summary statistics are also included: date of snow accumulation, date of snow melt, number of days in year with snow on ground, and percentage of "winter days" in year with snow on ground. The SNOWARP algorithm was used to produce these data (Berman et. al., 2018; see full citation below), in which dynamic time warping fuses together MODIS MOD10A1 with Landsat level-3 fSCA, resulting in daily 30-m fSCA estimates. All dates correspond to winter day of year (WDOY), which runs between August 1 - July 31 each season and...

Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wyoming, dynamic time warping, ecology, All tags... elk, environment, landsat modis data fusion, none, remote sensing, snow cover, Fewer tags

Watershed characteristics for study sites of the Surface Water Trends project, National Water Quality Program

This product consists of 29 datasets of tabular data and associated metadata for watershed characteristics of 1,530 study sites of the Surface Water Trends (SWT) project of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) National Water Quality Program (NWQP). The project is conducting national studies of trends in water quality of streams and rivers for periods ranging from 10 to 40 years, between 1972 and 2012. The data here include both static and time-series characteristics. Static data include primarily physical characteristics which have changed little over this period, such as geology, soils, and topography. Time-series data represent characteristics which may or may not have changed over time, such as land use, agricultural...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Atmospheric Deposition, Basin Morphology, Census of Agriculture, Conterminous US, Crop Practices, All tags... Crop Reserve Program, Fertilizer, Forest Canopy, Geographic Information Systems, Geology, Geospatial Analysis, Geospatial Datasets, Housing, Hydrologic Modifications, Hydrology, Imperviousness, Income, Land use, Land use change, Manure, Minerals and Metals, NHDPlus, Net Primary Productivity, Nitrogen application, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Oil and Gas, Phenology, Phosphorus application, Point Source, Population change, Precipitation, Protected Areas, Puerto Rico, Regions, Riparian Land Use, Roads, Snow cover, Soils, Temperature, Topography, Trends, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Urbanization, Water Use, Watershed, Watershed boundaries, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Kokolik River Watershed map

Map of the Kokolik River Area and location of proposed observation sites (numbered circles). The Kokolik River drains from the northwestern corner of the Brooks Range south and west to Kasegaluk Lagoon and the Chukchi Sea. It crosses the three ecoregions but has very little high elevation area. Inset shows the location of the seven TEON focal watersheds. Image by Arctic LCC staff.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE, CRYOSPHERE, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE, Federal resource managers, GEOMORPHOLOGY, GEOMORPHOLOGY, GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS, GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE, MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, Policy makers & regulators, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER, VEGETATION, VEGETATION, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, completed, location, location, map, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Snow Up Date (year)

This dataset includes Snow Up Date(sudy) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Snow Up Date is defined as day of the start of the core snow period(day of year). The core snow season is defined to be the longest period of continuous snow cover in each year. The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.“Day-of-year” (doy) output is expressed in Ordinal dates (“1” on 1 January, and “365” on 31 December). Dates have not been corrected for leap years. This output is appropriate for display purposes, as it is readily interpreted as calendar day of year. It is not recommended as input for analysis, as it may produce incorrect...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Snow Days

This dataset includes Snow Days(sdys) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Snow Days is defined as number of days in core snow period(days). The core snow season is defined to be the longest period of continuous snow cover in each year. The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.The dataset is delivered in the ZIP archive file format. Each year is output in a separate GeoTiff file, where the year is indicated by the filename.Over the last 20 years, under a variety of NOAA, NSF, and NASA research programs, a snow-evolution modeling system has been developed that includes the MicroMet micrometeorological model, the...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

SnowDens-3D User Documentation

Historically, available den habitat models have been based primarily on the presence of topographic features capable of capturing drifting snow. In any given season, however, the availability and precise location of snowdrifts of sufficient size to accommodate a bear den depends on the antecedent snowfall and wind conditions, and these vary from one year to the next. Thus, suitable topography is a necessary pre-condition, but is not sufficient to accurately predict potential den sites in a given year.To satisfy the requirements of agency and industry managers what is needed is a user-friendly decision-support tool that takes into account the current fall and early-winter meteorological conditions, and provides den...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, BEARS, BEARS, Federal resource managers, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, MAMMALS, MAMMALS, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, State agencies, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, biota, biota, completed, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, userGuide, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Rain Precipitation

This dataset includes Rain Precipitation(rpre) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Rain Precipitation is defined as (m/yr). The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.The dataset is delivered in the ZIP archive file format. Each year is output in a separate GeoTiff file, where the year is indicated by the filename.Over the last 20 years, under a variety of NOAA, NSF, and NASA research programs, a snow-evolution modeling system has been developed that includes the MicroMet micrometeorological model, the SnowModel snow-process model, and the SnowAssim data assimilation model. These modeling tools can be thought of...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

TEON FAQs, version 1.0

The Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (TEON) is intended to meet the need for asustainable environmental observing network for northern Alaska. TEON is organized aroundrepresentative focal watersheds (Figure 1). TEON will collect, distribute, and synthesize long-termobservational data needed to detect and forecast effects of a changing climate, hydrology, andpermafrost regime on wildlife, habitat, and infrastructure in northern Alaska.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE, CRYOSPHERE, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE, Federal resource managers, GEOMORPHOLOGY, GEOMORPHOLOGY, GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS, GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE, MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, Policy makers & regulators, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER, VEGETATION, VEGETATION, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, completed, factSheet, location, location, Fewer tags

TEON shapefiles

Ideal observation sites are located near tributary-mainstem confluences and provide frequent,synchronous measurements of physical, chemical, and biological attributes. This “nested watershed”design supports characterization of environmental conditions adjacent to the sampling stations, whileinstream hydrological measurements will reflect both local conditions and inputs from upstream. TEON observations sites are stratified by ecoregions, so we can aggregate data sets across the network to characterize conditions at the ecoregion scale.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE, CRYOSPHERE, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE, Data, Federal resource managers, GEOMORPHOLOGY, GEOMORPHOLOGY, GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS, GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE, MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, Policy makers & regulators, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER, VEGETATION, VEGETATION, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, completed, location, location, Fewer tags

Citizen science snow observations at the McCall Outdoor Science School, McCall, ID

Results of a citizen science effort in which students and instructors at the McCall Outdoor Science School (MOSS) collected snow observations every 1-4 weeks at their field site within Ponderosa State Park (elevation 1540 m), adjacent to Payette Lake, ID. Students documented snow cover within forested versus open areas at each site via photographs and estimates of the continuity of snow cover. Additionally, snow depth and density were measured via snow pits in the forest and the open. Data were entered via a Google Form, and the results recorded in this table. Site Data Citation for full description of the field campaign and sites. Field photographs are archived along with these data, sorted by site name, with timestamp...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Idaho, Landscapes, McCall, All tags... McCall, Idaho, Northwest CASC, Other Water, Ponderosa State Park, Ponderosa State Park, Science Tools For Managers, Valley County, Valley County, Water, Coasts and Ice, citizen science, citizen science, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow cover, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Total Snow Days

This dataset includes Total Snow Days(tsdy) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Total Snow Days is defined as total number of days with snow on the ground during the year(days). The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.The dataset is delivered in the ZIP archive file format. Each year is output in a separate GeoTiff file, where the year is indicated by the filename.Over the last 20 years, under a variety of NOAA, NSF, and NASA research programs, a snow-evolution modeling system has been developed that includes the MicroMet micrometeorological model, the SnowModel snow-process model, and the SnowAssim data assimilation...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Glacier Melt

This dataset includes Glacier Melt(glmt) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Glacier Melt is defined as (m/yr). The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.The dataset is delivered in the ZIP archive file format. Each year is output in a separate GeoTiff file, where the year is indicated by the filename.Over the last 20 years, under a variety of NOAA, NSF, and NASA research programs, a snow-evolution modeling system has been developed that includes the MicroMet micrometeorological model, the SnowModel snow-process model, and the SnowAssim data assimilation model. These modeling tools can be thought of as physically-based...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ALBEDO, ALBEDO, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, CRYOSPHERE MODELS, Data, Federal resource managers, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE, GLACIERS, GLACIERS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RAIN, RAIN, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DENSITY, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW ENERGY BALANCE, SNOW MELT, SNOW MELT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

Mapping Suitable Snow Habitat for Polar Bear Denning Final Report

Polar bears along Alaska’s Beaufort Sea frequently give birth to young in land-based snow dens.These dens are established in November, typically in deep snowdrifts that have developed in thelee of cut-banks found along streams, rivers, and the coast. Durner et al. (2001, 2006) indicatedthat, for 24 known land den sites, the local slopes ranged from 15 to 50° and were 1.3 to 34 mhigh. The dens faced all directions but east. They published a distribution map based on habitatcharacteristics, presumably reflecting snow drifting, largely bracketing the generally northwardflowing drainages of the region. No attempt was made in the cited studies to model snow driftingexplicitly, though it was recognized that this was an...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, DIGITAL ELEVATION/DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELS, DIGITAL ELEVATION/DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELS, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, All tags... Report, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, biota, biota, completed, Fewer tags

SNOWDATA GeoTIFF Annual Snow Free Date

This dataset includes Snow Free Date(sfdt) for northern Alaska in GeoTiff format, covering the years 1980-2012. Snow Free Date is defined as day of the end of the core snow period(day of simulation). The core snow season is defined to be the longest period of continuous snow cover in each year. The dataset was generated by the Arctic LCC SNOWDATA: Snow Datasets for Arctic Terrestrial Applications project.The simulation period runs from 1 September – 31 August. “Day-of-simulation” takes the value of “1” on 1 September, “123” on 1 January, and “365” on 31 August. “Day-of-simulation” files should be used for analysis (trend, mean, etc.).The dataset is delivered in the ZIP archive file format. Each year is output in...

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