British Columbia Snow Duration Analysis

Overview

Series of code with the purpose of utilizing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MODIS) M*D10A10 datasets for deriving snow duration metrics over BC during the period 2002 - 2018. Additional analysis is carried out to explore the influence of major climate modes including the El Nino Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on inter-annual snow cover variability.

Project Status

This project is completed and has been published in The Cryosphere https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2019-61/.

Workflow

We use Google Earth Engine to download the daily MODIS snow cover product, then Python to fit the LOWESS time series interpolation, and then R to analyze the data start, end and duration of snow cover.

Getting Help or Reporting an Issue

To report bugs/issues/feature requests, please file an issue or contact alexandre.bevington@gov.bc.ca.

How to Contribute

If you would like to contribute, please see our CONTRIBUTING guidelines.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

License

Copyright 2018 Province of British Columbia

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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This project was created using the bcgovr package.