ESM-SnowMIP meteorological and evaluation datasets at ten reference sites (in situ and bias corrected reanalysis data)

In situ meteorological forcing and evaluation data, and bias-corrected reanalysis forcing data for cold regions modelling at ten sites: one maritime (Sapporo, Japan), one arctic (Sodankylä, Finland), three boreal (Old Aspen, Old Jack Pine and Old Black Spruce, Saskatchewan, Canada) and five mid-latitude alpine (Col de Porte, France; Reynolds Mountain East, Idaho, USA, Senator Beck and Swamp Angel, Colorado, USA; Weissfluhjoch, Switzerland).

The long-term datasets are the reference sites chosen for evaluating models participating in the Earth System Model-Snow Model Intercomparison Project (ESM-SnowMIP). Periods covered by the in situ data span from 1994 to 2016 with the period of available data varying by location from between 7 and 20 years of hourly meteorological data, with evaluation data (snow depth, snow water equivalent, albedo, soil temperature and surface temperature) available at varying temporal intervals.

30-year (1980-2010) time-series have been extracted from a global gridded surface meteorology dataset (Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 3) for the grid cells containing the reference sites, interpolated to one-hour timesteps and bias corrected.

Date (Publication): 2020-04-23T16:42:19

Date (Creation): 2020-04-23T16:42:19

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b6b6266415634a6ab242702d7ee6be05

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / b6b6266415634a6ab242702d7ee6be05

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Menard, Cecile	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Essery, Richard	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Essery, Richard	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Unavailable	Menard, Cecile	Unavailable	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

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Snow
Long-Term Record
Modelling
Observation

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1980-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2016-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b6b6266415634a6ab242702d7ee6be05	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/rescues/data/ESM-SnowMIP	DOWNLOAD

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	https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-865-2019	Meteorological and evaluation datasets for snow modelling at 10 reference sites: description of in situ and bias-corrected reanalysis data

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Date stamp: 2026-02-08T03:21:00

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