Snow: results

 

All of the survey lines showed a gradual deepening of the snow cover from fall through winter to spring. Most of the snow melted the first few weeks of June. There was a great deal of spatial variability in the snow cover. For example, along the snow mainline, depths in May ranged from a few cm on the top of a ridge to more than a meter in the lee of a ridge. There was a snow intensive observation period during spring. 

Profiles along the snow mainline. Negative values are meltpond depths.

 

Mean snow depth of four snow survey lines over the SHEBA year.

 

Histograms of snow depth along the snow mainline.
 

Histogram of snow depth from over 20,000 measurements made in spring 1998.

 

 
 
                                          

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