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