Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Spatial variation of the rain–snow temperature threshold across the Northern Hemisphere

  • Keith S. Jennings,
  • Taylor S. Winchell,
  • Ben Livneh,
  • Noah P. Molotch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03629-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Land surface models often use a spatially uniform air temperature threshold when partitioning rain and snow. Here Jennings et al. show that the threshold varies significantly across the Northern Hemisphere and that threshold selection is a large source of uncertainty in snowfall simulations.