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This dataset represents an estimate of interannual variability in the number of days of continuous seasonal snowpack from 1993 - 2022. This map is derived from estimates of the first and last day of bare ground derived from long-term time-series of Landsat TM, ETM, and OLI imagery starting in 1993. These maps combine monthly ground snow cover fraction maps from the USGS Landsat Collection 2 Level 3 fSCA Statistics (https://doi.org/10.5066/F7VQ31ZQ) with a time-series analysis of a spectral snow index (NDSI) using a heirarchical Bayesian model (Gao et al. 2021). The combination of these two approaches allows reconstruction of detailed annual snow persistence maps from sparse imagery time-series (Landsat data have an 8 to 16-day return interval in the absence of clouds). A comparison of these data to independent in-situ observations from SNOTEL and microclimate sensors show that these products capture about 85% of spatial variation in snow persistence for recent years (2021-2022), and greater than 90% of temporal variation across the full 1993 - 2022 time-series. This data represents the mean of annual estimates from 1993 - 2022. References: Gao, X., Gray, J. M., & Reich, B. J. (2021). Long-term, medium spatial resolution annual land surface phenology with a Bayesian hierarchical model. Remote Sensing of Environment, 261, 112484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112484
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