Nordic Snow Network (NordSnowNet)

The Nordic Snow Network (NordSnowNet) focuses on snow and related topics such as snow on sea ice, glaciers, snow-related hazards, environmental issues, and the social impacts on indigenous and local communities in Arctic regions. The network aims to make Nordic-Arctic research and snow data — from observations and models (including forecasts, assimilated observations from weather and hydrology models, and climate model projections) — visible and accessible to researchers, data users, and the education community.

NordSnowNet supports snow-related research and the development of applications by facilitating the exchange of information and data, organizing workshops and training, and encouraging informal contacts and meetings among researchers.

Goals

The main objective is to create a sustainable network for connecting the Nordic-Arctic snow-related researchers and making their results and data visible.

Other goals:

Strengthen collaboration: Continue existing partnerships and foster new collaborations within the Nordic countries and beyond on snow-related research topics.
Increase use of snow information: Promote the distribution and use of Arctic snow information by stakeholders.
Share knowledge and resources: Improve access to information on existing snow-related research, applications, observation and forecast data, networks, and resources.
Enhance the snow observational network:
- Snow in-situ observations: Enhance harmonization of measurement practices. Improve standardization of data and metadata formats to increase usability and interoperability of snow data.
- Remote sensing: Support the development of snow retrieval algorithms from satellite-based sensors.
- Data assimilation: Coordinate the development of tools that integrate snow observations into models, helping deliver more accurate atmospheric and hydrological forecasts from the hourly to seasonal scale.