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Forcing the SURFEX/Crocus snow model with combined hourly meteorological forecasts and gridded observations in southern Norway
Hanneke Luijting
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The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 43 Blindern, 0313 Oslo, Norway
Dagrun Vikhamar-Schuler
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 43 Blindern, 0313 Oslo, Norway
Trygve Aspelien
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 43 Blindern, 0313 Oslo, Norway
Åsmund Bakketun
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 43 Blindern, 0313 Oslo, Norway
Mariken Homleid
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 43 Blindern, 0313 Oslo, Norway
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Keith S. Jennings, Timothy G. F. Kittel, and Noah P. Molotch
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We show through observations and simulations that cold content, a key part of the snowpack energy budget, develops primarily through new snowfall. We also note that cold content damps snowmelt rate and timing at sub-seasonal timescales, while seasonal melt onset is controlled by the timing of peak cold content and total spring precipitation. This work has implications for how cold content is represented in snow models and improves our understanding of its effect on snowmelt processes.
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Short summary
Knowledge of the snow reservoir is important for energy production and water resource management. In this study, a detailed snow model is run over southern Norway with two different sets of forcing data. The results show that forcing data consisting of post-processed data from a numerical weather model (observations assimilated into the raw weather predictions) are most promising for snow simulations when larger regions are evaluated.
Knowledge of the snow reservoir is important for energy production and water resource...
