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Welcome to the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab. Here you will find various unique products regarding global snow cover. Maps, graphic products and tabular data are available.
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for the latest month. Based on Rutgers GSL analysis of NOAA daily snow maps. For more results, including the for this and other months back to the late 1960s click the map.
2008 Annual ReportAnnual snow cover extent (SCE) over Northern Hemisphere lands averaged 24.4 million square kilometers in 2008. This is 1.1 million sq. km less than the 39-year average and ranks 2008 as having the 4th least extensive cover on record... [download]