Written by: Katreen Wikstrom Jones It’s the time of the year when we put our skis on the shelf and bring our bikes outside for its premiere ride. Snow melt season up here in Alaska is also about two weeks early, which speeds up things a little. But before summer embraces us fully, we would…
Written by: James Molloy Contact Info: molloyjb [at] gmail.com The snow line in the southern Tetons climbs visibly higher each day as if the 17/18 ski season is waving us goodbye. Bare ground was present within Jackson’s city limits for most of the winter, but the Snake River basin’s snow water equivalent (SWE) stacked up…
We are having a spring fling between April 15 to 30th. What’s going on? It’s that time of the year — the ablation (snow melt) season! Help us celebrate spring by submitting your snow depth measurements to our citizen science project! How do I help? Measure snowpack depth in undisturbed snow Submit your depth measurement…
Written by: Mountain Hub Original URL: http://about.mountainhub.com/community-snow-observations-giveaway-contest/ Mountain Hub #dataforgood partner, Community Snow Observations (CSO), needs our help! Next time you get out into the snow, take out your avalanche probe, measure the snow depth, and enter it into a Mountain Hub snow condition observation in the snowpack depth field. Just like that, you will contribute to…
Written by: Ryan Crumley. After snow depth measurements are recorded by CSO participants, we’ve developed a way to integrate those observations into the process of snowpack modeling. Snow models use data from weather stations and landscape characteristics to build a snowpack during the winter and melt it away when the weather gets warmer in spring…