Spoke with Ira about the supplement. Yes, we have covered how the snowpack

is measured in the text. All that is needed is an update on what is

happening in the West, how they can accesss the information, and why it

might be important (i.e., water supply). Ira says be brief.

http: //www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/water/w_data.html

http: //www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotel/snoareas.html

http: //www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotel.html

http: //www-wwrc.uwyo.edu/images/windsock.jpg

http: //enterprise.nwi.fws.gov/

http: //www-wwrc.uwyo.edu/wrds/wwwsites.html

A good one

http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu/

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mbrfc/snow.html

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mbrfc/spring.html

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/usa/010313/usr01072.gif

Read this

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/98/html/pubs/techno.htm

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/quiklook/eastql.shtml - for east

National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/quiklook/usql.shtml - for US

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/quiklook/westql.shtml - for west

See following

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/98/html/faq.htm

http://ael.physic.ut.ee/globe/globe.UUS!/fenoloogia/snow_juhend.htm

Distinguish between snow cover and snow pack.

What I wrote last week:

National Resources Conservation Service reports on season's snowpack - the snowpack in the Pacific Northwest and the northern Rockies, a crucial water supply for the the western US in the coming months, remains at less than 70% of the long-term average. The southern Rockies and portions of the Great Basin have snowpacks that are near or slightly above average for this time of year. For the current snowpack map

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service maintains a network of automatic stations across the West called the SNOTEL Network (

SNOTEL = SNOw TELemetry). These remote unattended sites have instruments that automatically measure the snow water equivalent and other data, then transmit the collected data to a centralized location.

The National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC)

The current satellite derived snow cover chart for the coterminous United States

A similar chart of the snow water equivalent

NOAA