Snow cover duration from 01 Sep 2017 to 31 Aug 2018 in the Alps and Pyrenees

=> We are thinking to distribute a new product that would provide the snow cover duration in the Alps and the Pyrenees over a hydrological year (snow persistence map). Here is a preview of a « beta » version that is only 100 m resolution for now.

Click to view the online demo — Snow cover duration from 01 Sep 2017 to 31 Aug 2018. Pixels with less than 60 days were masked out.

A few words on the method (see also here): this map is generated after a linear interpolation at the daily time step of every available Theia snow product. Here we have selected 26 Sentinel-2 tiles, which represents 3189 snow maps for the study period, that is 96 billion pixels to process. With the accumulation of Sentinel-2 data it becomes possible to look at interannual variability. Here is for example a visual comparison of the snow cover duration calculated from January to May for three years in the Pyrenees (31TCH):

Snow cover duration 31TCH — Snow Duration from Jan 01 to May 31 in the Pyrenees (tile 31TCH)

We can see longer snow durations for the year 2018, which was an exceptional year!

Snow cover duration from 01 Sep 2017 to 31 Aug 2018 in the Alps and Pyrenees

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