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Research article
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13 Apr 2017
Research article |
| 13 Apr 2017
Eurasian snow depth in long-term climate reanalyses
Martin Wegmann
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Yvan Orsolini
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
Emanuel Dutra
ECMWF – European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Olga Bulygina
All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information – World Data Centre, Obninsk, Russian Federation
Alexander Sterin
All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information – World Data Centre, Obninsk, Russian Federation
Stefan Brönnimann
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Short summary
We investigate long-term climate reanalyses datasets to infer their quality in reproducing snow depth values compared to in situ measured data from meteorological stations that go back to 1900. We found that the long-term reanalyses do a good job in reproducing snow depths but have some questionable snow states early in the 20th century. Thus, with care, climate reanalyses can be a valuable tool to investigate spatial snow evolution in global warming and climate change studies.
We investigate long-term climate reanalyses datasets to infer their quality in reproducing snow...
