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Snow Cover from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information: Total Days of Snow Cover for Vermont

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  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • Address:
      705 Spear Street
      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
      Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

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    This project looks at the annual snow cover in New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont by filtering through Global Summary of the Year (GSOY) datasets from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

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  • snow, snow accumulation, snow depth, vermont, weather,

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    • dataset_eml_datatabletitle: Total Days of Snow Cover for Vermont
    • dataset_eml_datatablestartdate: 1888-09-01
    • dataset_eml_datatabledescription: Total days of snow cover greater than one inch in the state of Vermont. The total days of snow cover were calculated by averaging the total days of snow cover over one inch throughout various stations that measured snowfall for that year. This data was collected from NOAA CDO at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search?datasetid=NORMAL_MLY. To reproduce this dataset use these search terms: Select Weather Observation Type/Dataset = Global Summary of the Year, Data Range = 1884 - 2017, Search for = States, Enter a search term = Vermont.

    • dataset_eml_datatablepurpose: Monitoring total days of snow cover (>1") over time (1888-2017).

    • dateset_eml_datatableshortname: Z1150_2411_KWU41A

    • dataset_eml_datatablephysicalobjectname: VMC.1150.2411

    • dataset_eml_datatabledatatype: mySQL
    • dataset_eml_datatablecitation: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (2017) Total Days of Snow Cover >1". FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/Annual_snow_cover_vt/dataset/total-days-snow-cover-1

    • dataset_eml_datatableonlinedistribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/CI4/data/archive/project/Annual_snow_cover_vt/dataset/total-days-snow-cover-1

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      • dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: Year
      • dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Year
      • dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: date
      • dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: datetime
      • dataset_eml_attributelistformatstring: YYYY
      • Unit: Year
      dataset_eml_attributelistname: _DSNW_(Total_Days_of_Snow_Cover_>1)
      • dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: DSNW
      • dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Total_Days_of_Snow_Cover_>1"
      • dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: decimal
      • dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: ratio
      • dataset_eml_attributelistprecision: 1
      • Unit: days

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