Winter snowfall and number of snow covered days — Research Context
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Historical snowfall records compiled from the Gull Lake Biological Station COOP (#203504) National Weather Observatory station:https://lter.kbs.msu.edu/datatables/31.
This datatable is part of the Snow manipulation experiment, effect on soil trace gas production dataset.
This dataset contains data from Leilei Ruan’s thesis work focused the effect of winter thaws and snow cover on soil N2O fluxes.
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| Experiment: | Research Context |
| Data available from: | January 1950 to January 2013 |
| Dataset: | KBS119 |
| Datatable ID: | KBS119-002.98 |
| Repository link: | http://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f92134fdb29edca1e592a3c8d8918368 |
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| Last Updated | 2023-10-24 |
| Variate | Description | Units |
|---|---|---|
| year | the year the winter ended | |
| precip as snow | the amount of precipitation as snow for the year | mm |
| days with snow cover | the number of days that ground was covered with snow | |
| daily air temp c | average temperature between December 1st to March 31st | C |
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Data Excerpt
| year | precip_as_snow_mm | days_with_snow_cover | daily_air_temperature_c |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 983.0 | 54 | -1.3 |
| 1951 | 988.1 | 68 | -2.6 |
| 1952 | 1516.4 | 61 | -1.8 |
| 1953 | 416.6 | 26 | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 1031.2 | 66 | -0.8 |