Specification of Monthly Frequency of Snow Cover Based on Macroscale Parameters

Abstract

The most likely number of days with snow on the ground during an individual month is expressed empirically as a function of the mean temperature and total precipitation for that month, as well as the presence or absence of a snow cover at the end of the preceding month. Although this study is of some value in the field of synoptic climatology, it was designed primarily to serve as a useful method for generating snow cover within numerical weather-prediction models which do not contain water- or snow-budget formulas.