Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature Forecasts and the Influence of Snow Cover
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Monthly Weather Review
- Vol. 105 (12) , 1594-1597
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1977)105<1594:dmamtf>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Research into the relationship between snow cover and observed maximum and minimum temperature is reviewed. An example of the importance of snow cover and forecasting max/min temperatures is presented for this past winter (1976–77). It is shown that there was a warm bias in the MOS temperature forecasts for the northern Great Plains following the receipt of a fresh cover of snowfall. It is proposed that snow cover be incorporated as a conditional predictor to be used only during specific synoptic conditions.Keywords
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