WDQMS snow-depth release

WDQMS snow-depth release

by Timo Proescholdt -
Number of replies: 2

Dear WIGOS community,

the WDQMS team is happy to announce that following the adoption of a snow-depth template at the recent ET-ODQMS meeting and WIGOS Monitoring Centers now being able to report snow-depth, the team is working on a release adding snow-depth to the NWP module in the WDQMS webtool.

There are two way in which snow-depth can be added. First, by adding a new parameter to the drop-down of variables. Second, as a separate view in the NWP module, like Marine Quality. 
Having discussed this, the team would recommend to implement snow-depth as a separate view. The reason for this is that the snow-depth map looks significantly different from the map of the other variables. Besides, it would avoid having dependencies between snow-depth and other variables in the backend, given that snow-depth will be reported as a separate file.

Do you agree implementing snow-depth as a separate view, like the Marine Quality?

The team is planning to release snow-depth in the NWP module in Q1/Q2 2025.

with kind regards,
WDQMS development team

In reply to Timo Proescholdt

Re: WDQMS snow-depth release

by Karl Monnik -
Hi Timo and friends

Thank you for engaging with us.

I understand why we have different views for land surface, upper air and marine stations; as they have quite different footprints in terms of stations. Also GCOS has its own 2 pages.

I would be a little concerned about another page for snow depth as this means a further location for RWC and national staff to check and it is more easy for it to be accidently ignored.

My preference is to find a way to combine it with land surface.

But as an Australian, I'm not going to be looking at snow depth frequently!

Have a lovely holiday season.
Karl
In reply to Timo Proescholdt

Re: WDQMS snow-depth release

by Martina Suaya -
Dear Timo, thanks for sharing this information.

I support your recommendation for a separate view, but in line of Karls concerns (too many places to look for something) I would try to think ahead and design a module for snow depth that would be suitable as well for other variables in the future (i.e precipitation).

From the RWC perspective, we're challenged on daily basis with the overall modules, categories, time aggregations and variables so smart post processing of the information is in general necessary, and RWCs have started to do this. With API in place this will be extended for sure. So the webtool, as you mention, has to show on an appropriate wayr the results and if a separate module is needed ok for me.

Thanks again, I am looking forward to the next releases! My best wisher for all

Martina