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Snow water equivalent estimates using cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the United Kingdom (2014-2019)
This dataset provides daily estimates of the Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) using data from 46 COSMOS-UK sites across the United Kingdom. One set of estimates is derived from the cosmic ray neutron sensor and provides an estimate of the average SWE within the sensor’s large (>100m) footprint. Other SWE estimates are based on either a snowmelt model, or, for certain sites, either a snow depth sensor or a buried 'SnowFox' neutron sensor. Additionally, daily neutron counts, the albedo, and a collection of figures for each snow event are provided. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e1fa6897-0f09-4472-adab-5d0d7bbc2548
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- Date (Publication)
- 2020-01-06
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e1fa6897-0f09-4472-adab-5d0d7bbc2548
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- doi: / 10.5285/e1fa6897-0f09-4472-adab-5d0d7bbc2548
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Wallbank, J.R., Cole, S.J., Moore, R.J., Anderson, S.R., Mellor, E.J. (2020). Snow water equivalent estimates using cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the United Kingdom (2014-2019). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e1fa6897-0f09-4472-adab-5d0d7bbc2548
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallbank, J.R. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Cole, S.J. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Moore, R.J. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Anderson, S.R. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Mellor, E.J.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallbank, J.
Point of contact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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- Climate and climate change
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snow water equivalent
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SWE
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snow depth
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- no limitations
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© Natural Environment Research Council
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Wallbank, J.R., Cole, S.J., Moore, R.J., Anderson, S.R., Mellor, E.J. (2020). Snow water equivalent estimates using cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the United Kingdom (2014-2019). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e1fa6897-0f09-4472-adab-5d0d7bbc2548
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- Text, table
- Distance
- 10000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2014-12-10
- End date
- 2019-04-05
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- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
Portable Network Graphic (PNG)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/e1fa6897-0f09-4472-adab-5d0d7bbc2548 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e1fa6897-0f09-4472-adab-5d0d7bbc2548.zip Supporting information
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dataset
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- Title
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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
- Statement
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The dataset lists data from all snow days, detected through their effect on the measured albedo, from the date of installation of each COSMOS-UK site up to summer 2019. Comparison of the available SWE estimates suggest typical uncertainties (1 standard deviation) of less than about 4mm for both the CRNS and SnowFox estimates, 4mm for the depth-based estimate and 5mm for the snowmelt model.
Metadata
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- e1fa6897-0f09-4472-adab-5d0d7bbc2548 XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:15:13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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