Daily snow depth data for a northern alpine station

Gapless daily snow depth observations for a winter season from 1.8. - 31.7. from a station situated in the northern earstern alps at an altitude of 600 m. For anonymization the years are intentionally set to 1900 - 1901. This data series is free of gaps with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 1.3 meters. It is intended to be used as is as input data for the package nixmass to calculate snow water equivalent and bulk snow density with the delta.snow method and several empirical regression models from the literature.

Usage

data(hsdata)

Format

A `data.frame` named data with columns date and hs.

date

The date column contains character strings of the format "YYYY-MM-DD" and is of class character

.

hs

The hs column holds daily observed snow depths in meters and is of class numeric.

Examples

## Load example data
data("hsdata")

## explore dataset
head(hsdata)
#>         date hs
#> 1 1900-08-01  0
#> 2 1900-08-02  0
#> 3 1900-08-03  0
#> 4 1900-08-04  0
#> 5 1900-08-05  0
#> 6 1900-08-06  0
plot(hsdata$hs, type="o")


## compute snow water equivalents
o <- nixmass(hsdata, model="delta.snow")
plot(o)


o1 <- nixmass(hsdata, alt=600, region.jo09 = 6, region.gu19 = "central",
snowclass.st10 = "alpine", verbose = FALSE)
plot(o1)
summary(o1)
#>      Min.   1st Qu.    Median      Mean   3rd Qu.      Max. 
#>   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000  38.58482  28.34948 282.25331