From 1000-1400 m the correlation coefficient is 0.87-0.99. The correlation between the high elevation and low elevation Snotel sites is 0.63-0.96. These data suggest that despite the mean SWE depth and maximum SWE being widely variable from site to site the annual pattern of development and ...
Monitoring the snow pack is crucial for many stakeholders, whether for hydro-power optimization, water management or flood control. Traditional forecasting relies on regression methods, which often results in snow melt runoff predictions of low accuracy
The AWS station provides data on temperature, rainfall, and snow depth, or new daily snow, the latter to be converted into SWE using estimates of snow density as from daily minimum temperature (e.g., [33,34]). We further used data from 29 other temperature stations in the Western Alps,...