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    • Great DaneG
      Great Dane | Premium
      last edited by

      Snow depth in Europe seems to be un-synched with real data. As mentioned in a post from 20.10.21 covered areas are marked with synthetic sharp edges and spread across the Alps in artificially rectangular shapes.
      Snow depth.jpg

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      • idefix37I
        idefix37 Sailor Moderator @Great Dane
        last edited by idefix37

        @great-dane
        Data provided by global models is wrong in mountains specially for parameters linked to temperature. This is well known and it has been explained so many time here. May this post help to understand the effect of weather models resolution in mountain?
        https://community.windy.com/topic/8106/huge-differences-between-models?_=1634798809757

        The ECMWF provides this snow depth data used by Windy with the same inaccuracy over the Alps:
        https://apps.ecmwf.int/webapps/opencharts/products/medium-snow-sic?base_time=202110260000&projection=opencharts_europe&valid_time=202110260000
        For you what Windy should do?

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        • KorinaK
          Korina @Great Dane
          last edited by

          @great-dane Hi, this is correct model outcome, resolution in mountains is generally lower. But we will look into it and see if we can improve it.

          Korina

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