SNOw TELemetry. An automated network of snowpack data collection sites. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), has operated the Federal-State-Private Cooperative Snow Survey Program in the western United States since 1935. A standard SNOTEL site consists of a snow pillow, a storage type precipitation gauge, an air temperature sensor, and a small shelter for housing electronics.
Observing sites mainly in remote, high-elevation locations. Operated and maintained by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Data reported: 24-hour max/min temperatures and precipitation Frequency of reports: 6-12 hours
Snowpack telemetry network. A network of Natural Resources Conservation Service automated sites which continually monitor snowpack and weather conditions and transmit data to a data retrieval center in Portland, Oregon.
A near real-time hydrometeorological data collection network in the West that collects SWE, precipitation, and temperature data from nearly 600 remote high-elevation stations.
Abbreviation for SNOwpack TELemetry. A west-wide system for obtaining snow water equivalent, precipitation, air temperature, and other hydrologic measurements from remote data sites via radio transmission.
Specific remote telemetric instrumentation maintained by the Natural Resources Conservation Service for comparing snowpack conditions at various sites within a season or over many years.
(Acronym for snow telemetry.) In remote areas of the western United States, SNOTEL sites, comprising a snow pillow, a shielded standpipe storage precipitation gauge, and a radio transmitter, are used to telemeter precipitation data to a satellite.
SNOTEL is an automated system of snowpack and related climate sensors operated by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the United States Department of Agriculture in the Western United States.
