California - Snowpack Projection (Forced by Gridded Obeserved Data) - Cal-Adapt,org

Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) is a common snowpack measurement. It is defined as the amount of water contained within the snowpack. These snowpack projections are produced by using a land surface/hydrology model known as the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model. The VIC model uses a gridded dataset of observed precipitation and temperature data as input to calculate SWE and a suite of additional parameters.

The spatial resolution of this data is 1/16º (approximately 6 km). The spatial extent available on Cal-Adapt covers entire state of California and Nevada and parts of Oregon, Mexico and Arizona.

Temporal Resolution

• Monthly.

• Data is available over the period 1950–2013.