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Predicting seasonal snowpack

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mountain Snowpack in Park City, Utah on Dec. 18, 2016

image: This is a mountain snowpack in Park City, Utah on Dec. 18, 2016. view more 

Credit: Image courtesy of Jonathan Meer (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX).

Researchers report predictions of March snowpack in the western United States based on climate conditions observed on July 1 of the previous year using a set of global climate models, which outperformed statistical predictions of March snowpack based on the same climate conditions, suggesting that seasonal snowpack predictions from global climate models could be used to inform water management and related water hazard preparedness.

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Article #17-16760: "Potential for western US seasonal snowpack prediction," by Sarah B. Kapnick et al.

MEDIA CONTACT: Sarah B. Kapnick, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, NJ; tel: 609-452-6548, 310-954-7604; e-mail: <sarah.kapnick@noaa.gov>


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