Joint Body on the Status of the Mountain Snow Cover (SMSC)

Overview

(copied from info on IACS homepage)

This Joint-Body is a collaboration between International Association of Cryospheric Sciences ( IACS), the Mountain Research Initiative ( MRI), and the WMO Global Cryosphere Watch ( GCW), and counts with the support and participation from these institutions and their networks to realize the tasks under the respective Work Packages ( WPs).

The proposal was prepared by a core team of scientists active in various fields of snow research, data and information. Participation in the joint body is open to everybody who is willing to actively contribute to one or several of the objectives listed in the proposal. Download the 2021 approved proposal here.

Joining

To join the JB, please contact one of the co-chairs.

To get access to the private repos on github, please contact @mitmat.

First results

• an inventory of snow observation metadata
• 2024 snow anomalies based on ERA5 and GMBA mountain definition