The two-year grant in the amount of $192,000 will be used by researchers to measure both the depth as well as the snow water equivalent and rank them by the degree of deviation from an established climatological baseline. The project aims to create a better understanding of how climate change has affected New England and to create a data base for organizations such as the National Weather Service (NWS) and NOAA to utilize for modeling and forecasting. The study is scheduled to be concluded by April 2026.
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PSU research associate professor Eric Kelsey said in a press release:
“Various organizations have been measuring the region’s snowpack since the 1930s, but until now we have never had an observational baseline for a historical perspective of present-day snowpack conditions, an understanding of how the seasonal snowpack has evolved with climate change, nor developed a model for assessing snow drought conditions.”
PSU will be working in conjunction with other groups among which are Cornell University’s Northeast Reginal Climate Center and the NWS.
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