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FreeGovernmentUSA, United States

NRCS SNOTEL Network

Snow telemetry and soil climate monitoring

nrcs.usda.gov

At a glance

Region
USA (United States)
Coverage
800+ mountain sites in western US
Access
Free
Category
Government
Last updated
2025

What's inside

  • Snowpack
  • Soil Temperature
  • Precipitation
  • Air Temperature

Terms explained

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Risk screening

    Screen projects and assets for climate risk.

    Because it has: Soil Temperature

  2. 02

    Future water

    Estimate water availability under future scenarios.

  3. 03

    Melt runoff

    Forecast snowmelt contributions to rivers.

    Because it has: Snowpack

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Bias correction

    Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.

  2. 02

    Emulators

    Replace slow model runs with fast ML emulators.

  3. 03

    Cloud-free snow maps

    Fill snow cover hidden by cloud with ML.

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