Articles | Volume 19, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2337-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2337-2015
Research article
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19 May 2015
Research article |  | 19 May 2015

A snow cover climatology for the Pyrenees from MODIS snow products

S. Gascoin, O. Hagolle, M. Huc, L. Jarlan, J.-F. Dejoux, C. Szczypta, R. Marti, and R. Sánchez

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There is a good agreement between the MODIS snow products and observations from automatic stations and Landsat snow maps in the Pyrenees. The optimal thresholds for which a MODIS pixel is marked as snow-covered are 40mm in water equivalent and 150mm in snow depth. We generate a gap-filled snow cover climatology for the Pyrenees. We compute the mean snow cover duration by elevation and aspect classes. We show anomalous snow patterns in 2012 and consequences on hydropower production.