Articles | Volume 5, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-163-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-163-2016
Research article
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30 May 2016
Research article |  | 30 May 2016

Sodankylä manual snow survey program

Leena Leppänen, Anna Kontu, Henna-Reetta Hannula, Heidi Sjöblom, and Jouni Pulliainen

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The manual snow survey program of Finnish Meteorological Institute consists of numerous observations of natural seasonal snowpack in Sodankylä, in northern Finland. Systematic snow measurements began in 1911 with snow depth and snow water equivalent. In 2006 the manual snow survey program expanded to cover snow macro- and microstructure from snow pits. Extensive time series of manual snow measurements are important for the monitoring of temporal and spatial changes in seasonal snowpack.