Regional influence of ocean–atmosphere teleconnections on the timing and duration of MODIS-derived snow  cover in British Columbia, Canada

Bevington, Alexandre R.; Gleason, Hunter E.; Foord, Vanessa N.; Floyd, William C.; Griesbauer, Hardy P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2693-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2693-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2693-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

Research article

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15 Oct 2019

Research article |

| 15 Oct 2019

Regional influence of ocean–atmosphere teleconnections on the timing and duration of MODIS-derived snow cover in British Columbia, Canada

Alexandre R. Bevington, Hunter E. Gleason, Vanessa N. Foord, William C. Floyd, and Hardy P. Griesbauer

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Aug 2019) by Marie Dumont

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Short summary

We investigate the influence of ocean–atmosphere teleconnections on the start, end, and duration of snow cover in British Columbia, Canada. We do this using daily satellite imagery from 2002 to 2018 and assess the accuracy of our methods using reported snow cover at 60 weather stations. We found that there are very strong relationships that vary by region and elevation. This improves our understanding of snow cover distribution and could be used to predict snow cover from ocean–climate indices.