Snow Rules! A North Shore Snow Study

Snow Rules!Snow Rules!A North Shore Snow A North Shore Snow

StudyStudyState

Climatology Office

DNR WatersDecember 2002

Project BasicsProject Basics

near shore snow patterns– topography– large expanse of adjacent open water

observing gridproject outcomes and uses

Project BasicsProject Basics

near shore snow patterns– topography– large expanse of adjacent open water

observing gridproject outcomes and uses

Project BasicsProject Basics

near shore snow patterns– topography– large expanse of adjacent open water

observing gridproject outcomes and uses

ObservationsObservations

snow fall– board, ruler

snow depth– by course, set poles, other?– testing

snow water content– use of ‘rain gages’– use of ‘rain gages’ or other cylinders as ‘cookie

cutters’

‘‘snow pole’snow pole’

ObserversObservers

finding one per grid cell– by invitation in 1st season: nominations

• existing

• new (interest apparent)

– advertise next season to ‘fill-in holes’

near-shore high density transectstraining

– meetings– video

Shore activitiesShore activities

caches– equipment, videos– http://climate.umn.edu/hidradius/precip_form_7.doc

data gathering– data form gathering– online data entry

• multi-observer– ‘on shore’– State Climatology Office

– single observer ‘digital postcard’

Next stepsNext steps

related projects and issues– ‘wish list’ data-based products for

education and diagnostics uses (web sites)– http://134.84.160.62/nssnow/snowrules.htm

other money and other people’s timenext meetings

– 1st observer meeting– 2nd and subsequent collaborators’ meeting