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Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover


tacoman25

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September ended up with the 3rd highest snow cover on record behind 1972 and 1977.

 

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New North American snowcover record for September associated with one of the strongest polar vortices

in NE Canada during September.

 

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Why are these two graphs different with the same data headers?

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We actually has some huge gains on the Eurasian side of Siberia the past 2 days. Way above normal now in that region. I wonder if that will end up being too much too early for the SAI.

There seems to be a pretty strong connection from reading the "and so it begins" thread. Is there any research regarding North American snowcover and weather patterns? Intuitively it would seem there has to be some connection on this side of the globe too.

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There seems to be a pretty strong connection from reading the "and so it begins" thread. Is there any research regarding North American snowcover and weather patterns? Intuitively it would seem there has to be some connection on this side of the globe too.

 

North America snow cover anomalies tend to exacerbate their forcing the strongest on the European winter especially the northern half of Europe. The correlation between high autumn snow cover in North America and a warm winter in Europe is pretty robust. The warmth is most pronounced in early winter from this relationship. The idea behind this is that the icelandic low gets displaced to the east a bit and floods Europe with maritime airmasses.

 

North America itself tends to be colder than usual (again esp in the first half of the winter) with high autumn snow cover but the relationship is weaker than the European effects...and it is less than our correlation with Siberian snow cover in autumn.

 

 

The interesting part is that Europe also is correlated decently to the Siberian snow cover...so it could be interesting if both regions are high this autumn. Siberia is a larger domain so I think that one would dominate.

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North America snow cover anomalies tend to exacerbate their forcing the strongest on the European winter especially the northern half of Europe. The correlation between high autumn snow cover in North America and a warm winter in Europe is pretty robust. The warmth is most pronounced in early winter from this relationship. The idea behind this is that the icelandic low gets displaced to the east a bit and floods Europe with maritime airmasses.

 

North America itself tends to be colder than usual (again esp in the first half of the winter) with high autumn snow cover but the relationship is weaker than the European effects...and it is less than our correlation with Siberian snow cover in autumn.

 

 

The interesting part is that Europe also is correlated decently to the Siberian snow cover...so it could be interesting if both regions are high this autumn. Siberia is a larger domain so I think that one would dominate.

Thank you

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Data isn't updating right now, but snow cover anomalies are going to be off the charts for Asia/Eurasia for October. NH overall should rank quite high, though low snow cover recently in North America may prevent it from being record-breaking.

Siberia snow cover is good news down this way.  Has there been any long term trend in Siberia during fall?

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Not enough evidence for either argument thus far. Timescales are fairly short, seems to be a reoccurring problem when drawing conclusions in this field of study.

There's plenty of evidence for natural fluctuations in avg snowcover up there, both via statistics and proxies. There's no quantitative evidence that AGW is the cause of the recent snowcover anomalies.

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There's plenty of evidence for natural fluctuations in avg snowcover up there, both via statistics and proxies. There's no quantitative evidence that AGW is the cause of the recent snowcover anomalies.

How can you use historical analogs when the atmospheric content and associated interplay was different?

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