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Projected Snowpack Amounts Under High Warming

Projections of Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) - SSP5-8.5
cryosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Shows past and future amounts of snowpack (water stored in snow) under a high greenhouse-gas scenario. It gives the actual projected snow water levels rather than just the change.

How it's made. Made from NASA computer simulations driven by downscaled CMIP6 climate-model projections (the SSP5-8.5 scenario).

How & where you'd use it. Helps water and climate planners prepare for sharply reduced snow-fed water supplies.

What's measured

snowprojectionsmedian585

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2017-04-01 → 2077-05-01
  • Spatial extent-121.215, 36.665, -105.405, 49.065
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Measure sea ice, snow cover and glaciers
  • Watch ice-sheet elevation change
  • Track freeze/thaw and permafrost
Official description

Historical (1995 - 2014) and future SWE simulated using the LIS framework and CMIP6 climate projections (SSP5-8.5 scenario) downscaled by NASA Earth Exchange (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6)

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("snow-projections-median-585")
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).