Variable Below

[Alan Robock]

Dear Brad,

It is water equivalent accumulation of snow depth.  It is very useful
for some purposes.  Since it is in mass, it does not matter if the snow
is melted, but you can convert to depth of liquid water.

Alan

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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Asselin, Brad wrote:

> Good evening,
> Does anybody have an knowledge or experience in using the following variable:
>
> weasd *surface accum snow (kg/m^2)
> Is it useful and how do you use it correctly ?
> Thank you in advance.
> Brad Asselin
>