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Sierra Nevada and Upper Colorado River Basin Water Storage Tracker

The CNAP Sierra Nevada Water Storage Tracker provides daily reservoir storage and snowpack information. 

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Current Conditions
File Format
images
Data Type
Land-based Station

SNODAS Gridded Snow Depth for the U.S.

SNODAS provides estimates of snow cover, depth, snow water equivalent (SWE) and associated variables to support hydrologic modelling and analysis.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
2003 - Present
File Format
text (ascii)
other
Data Type
Model

Snow Cover Maps

U.S. NIC provides snow maps produced using the Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) depicting the extent of daily snow and ice coverage in the Northern Hemisphere.

Data Coverage
Global
Period of Record
1997 - Present
File Format
images
geotiff
Data Type
Satellite

Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Products

Snow depth products produced by the SNOTEL network of over 800 automated data collection sites located in remote, high-elevation mountain watersheds in the western U.S.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Current Conditions, Historical data (period of record varies)
File Format
pdf
csv
Data Type
Land-based Station