Articles | Volume 25, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1165-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1165-2021
Research article
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05 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 05 Mar 2021

Snow water equivalents exclusively from snow depths and their temporal changes: the Δsnow model

Michael Winkler, Harald Schellander, and Stefanie Gruber

Model code and software

nixmass: Snow Water Equivalent Modeling with the 'Delta.snow' Model and Empirical Regression Models, R package version 1.0-1 H. Schellander https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nixmass

snow_to_swe M. Theurl https://bitbucket.org/atraxoo/snow_to_swe

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Short summary
A new method to calculate the mass of snow is provided. It is quite simple but gives surprisingly good results. The new approach only requires regular snow depth observations to simulate respective water mass that is stored in the snow. It is called ΔSNOW model, its code is freely available, and it can be applied in various climates. The method is especially interesting for studies on extremes (e.g., snow loads or flooding) and climate (e.g., precipitation trends).