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Colorado Low Storm Snowfall Pattern

Colorado Low Snowfall Footprint
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A map showing the typical snowfall footprint of a Colorado Low, a winter storm that forms near the Rockies and spreads snow across the central United States.

How it's made. Made as a single-value map layer outlining where this storm type usually drops snow.

How & where you'd use it. Helps forecasters and the public anticipate which areas a Colorado Low tends to blanket with snow.

What's measured

blizzardlow

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1950-01-01 → 1950-01-01
  • Spatial extent-110.169, 38.131, -80.974, 48.543
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Single value raster displaying the general snowfall footprint of a Colorado Low type of mid-latitude cyclone.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("blizzard-co-low")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).