A curated list of open technology projects to sustain a stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity and natural resources.

Categories - Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost

Topics

data-retrieval, snotel, planet-labs, runoff, snowmelt, earth science, microwave,

Projects

Permamodel

A collection of numerical permafrost models with a range of capability and complexity.

bmi csdms modeling permafrost python

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 11.5

snotelr

R toolbox to facilitate easy SNOTEL data exploration and downloads through a convenient shiny based GUI.

climate-data data-retrieval precipitation-data r-package rstats snotel snow

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 11.0

Teaspoon

A python library designed to make working with permafrost ground temperature time series data more straightforward, efficient, and reproduceable.

dataset earth science geography

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 10.5

smrt

Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer model to compute thermal emission and backscatter from snowpack.

microwave modeling snow

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.6

sar_snowmelt_timing

Contains notebooks and tools to identify snowmelt timing using time series analysis of backscatter of Sentinel-1 C-band SAR.

backscatter runoff sar sentinel-1 snowmelt

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.8

From Snow to Flow

Describe important dynamics that determine how snow turns into flow, and the charts show the connection between snowpack (measured as snow water equivalent) and streamflow (measured as discharge).

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.7

BioSNICAR

Predicts the spectral albedo of snow and glacier ice between 200nm to 5000nm given information about the illumination conditions, ice structure and the type and concentration particulates.

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.7

Planet Snowcover

A project that pairs airborne lidar and Planet Labs satellite imagery with cutting-edge computer vision techniques to identify snow-covered area at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions.

cloud-native computer-vision planet-labs

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.4

MuSA

A flexible data assimilation toolbox for experimental and operational snowpack reanalysis development.

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.4

SNOWPACK

A multi-purpose snow and land-surface model, which focuses on a detailed description of the mass and energy exchange between the snow, the atmosphere and optionally with the vegetation cover and the soil.

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 0.0

FSM2

The Flexible Snow Model is a multi-physics energy balance model of snow accumulation and melt, extending the Factorial Snow Model (Essery, 2015) with additional physics, driving and output options.

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: -Infinity

Contributors

khufkens [email protected]

OST Projects: 10
Categories: Biosphere, Climate Change, Cryosphere, Emissions, Sustainable Development
Sub Categories: Climate Data Access and Visualization, Climate Data Processing and Analysis, Curated Lists, Emission Observation and Modeling, Environmental Satellites, Knowledge Platforms, Plants and Vegetation, Snow and Permafrost, Terrestrial Animals, Terrestrial Wildlife
Topics: phenocam, phenocam-data, phenology-modelling, cds, climate-data, copernicus, ecmwf-api, ecmwf-services, biodiversity, carbon-emissions and 92 more

Eric Hutton [email protected]

OST Projects: 6
Categories: Climate Change, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development
Sub Categories: Earth and Climate Modeling, Education, Freshwater and Hydrology, Snow and Permafrost, Soil and Land
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost, digital-elevation-model, geosciences, hydrologic-modeling, hydrology, cf, udunits2, units and 20 more

Scott Henderson [email protected]

OST Projects: 6
Categories: Climate Change, Cryosphere, Sustainable Development
Sub Categories: Climate Data Standards, Earth and Climate Modeling, Education, Glacier and Ice Sheets, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: h5py, hdf5, binderhub, pangeo, backscatter, runoff, sar, snowmelt, 2023-hackweek, cloud-computing and 21 more

Mark Piper [email protected]

OST Projects: 6
Categories: Climate Change, Cryosphere, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development
Sub Categories: Curated Lists, Earth and Climate Modeling, Education, Snow and Permafrost, Soil and Land
Topics: cheatsheet, geochemistry, geology, geophysics, geoscience, geosciences, geostatistics, groundwater, modflow, open-science and 40 more

Colleen Nell [email protected]

OST Projects: 4
Categories: Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Natural Resources
Sub Categories: Freshwater and Hydrology, Snow and Permafrost, Water Supply and Quality
Topics:

Koen Hufkens [email protected]

OST Projects: 4
Categories: Biosphere, Climate Change, Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Climate Data Processing and Analysis, Plants and Vegetation, Snow and Permafrost, Terrestrial Animals, Terrestrial Wildlife
Topics: phenocam, phenocam-data, phenology-modelling, climate-data, data-retrieval, precipitation-data, snotel, snow, daymet, gridded-data and 11 more

Nick Brownn [email protected]

OST Projects: 3
Categories: Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Natural Resources
Sub Categories: Meteorological Observation and Forecast, Snow and Permafrost, Soil and Land
Topics: earth science, geography, environment-canada, weather-data, weather-downloader

Joseph Zemmels [email protected]

OST Projects: 3
Categories: Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Natural Resources
Sub Categories: Freshwater and Hydrology, Snow and Permafrost, Water Supply and Quality
Topics:

Corson-Dosch [email protected]

OST Projects: 3
Categories: Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Natural Resources
Sub Categories: Freshwater and Hydrology, Snow and Permafrost, Water Supply and Quality
Topics: sciencebase, usgs

ghislainp [email protected]

OST Projects: 3
Categories: Climate Change, Cryosphere, Sustainable Development
Sub Categories: Climate Data Standards, Environmental Satellites, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: microwave, snow, closember, weather

Elchin [email protected]

OST Projects: 3
Categories: Biosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere
Sub Categories: Freshwater and Hydrology, Plants and Vegetation, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: carbon-cycling, ecosystem-modeling, fire-dynamics, permafrost-dynamics, soil-thermal-dynamics, vegetation-dynamics, bmi, csdms, permafrost

coll nell [email protected]

OST Projects: 3
Categories: Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Natural Resources
Sub Categories: Freshwater and Hydrology, Snow and Permafrost, Water Supply and Quality
Topics:

Althea A. Archer [email protected]

OST Projects: 3
Categories: Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Natural Resources
Sub Categories: Freshwater and Hydrology, Snow and Permafrost, Water Supply and Quality
Topics:

Kristoffer Aalstad [email protected]

OST Projects: 2
Categories: Climate Change, Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Climate Downscaling, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: climate, climate-science, dem, downscaling, era5, geoscience

Scott [email protected]

OST Projects: 2
Categories: Climate Change, Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Earth and Climate Modeling, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost, polar-stereographic, climate-data, climate-data-record, passive-microwave, sea-ice-concentration, pymt

thomasgoelles [email protected]

OST Projects: 2
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Glacier and Ice Sheets, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: 4d, 4d-point-cloud, convert, lidar-point-cloud, open3d, ouster, point-cloud, pointcloud, riegl, ros and 19 more

nbohn [email protected]

OST Projects: 2
Categories: Cryosphere, Sustainable Development
Sub Categories: Environmental Satellites, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: EnMAP, EnMAP-Box, hyperspectral, pre-processing, processing chain, remote sensing

Marty Wernimont [email protected]

OST Projects: 2
Categories: Cryosphere, Hydrosphere
Sub Categories: Freshwater and Hydrology, Snow and Permafrost
Topics:

Platt [email protected]

OST Projects: 2
Categories: Cryosphere, Natural Resources
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost, Water Supply and Quality
Topics:

Esteban Alonso [email protected]

OST Projects: 2
Categories: Climate Change, Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Climate Downscaling, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: climate, climate-science, dem, downscaling, era5, geoscience, geostatistics, scikit

ellenbechtel [email protected]

OST Projects: 2
Categories: Cryosphere, Hydrosphere
Sub Categories: Freshwater and Hydrology, Snow and Permafrost
Topics:

Ethan Pierce [email protected]

OST Projects: 2
Categories: Cryosphere, Sustainable Development
Sub Categories: Education, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost, best-practices, geoscience, landlab, pymt

Elchin [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost

Elchin Jafarov [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost

RichardEssery [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics:

Joe [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics:

Tony Cannistra [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: cloud-native, planet-labs, climate-change, ecology, functional-ecology, regression-models, physiology, algae, market-segmentation, outdoor-industry and 6 more

mjsandells [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: microwave, snow

NinaMaass [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: microwave, snow

Mai Winstrup [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: microwave, snow

carlomarin [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: microwave, snow

egagli [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Glacier and Ice Sheets, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: geospatial-analysis, geospatial-data, jupyterbook, local-incidence-angle, microsoft-planetary-computer, sar, synthetic-aperture-radar, backscatter, runoff, snowmelt

Zach Keskinen [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Glacier and Ice Sheets, Snow and Permafrost
Topics: backscatter, runoff, sar, snowmelt

acannistra acannistra@local

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: cloud-native, planet-labs

EC2 Default User [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: cloud-native, planet-labs, climate-change, ecology, physiology

Ghislain Picard [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: microwave, snow

Ghislain Picard [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: microwave, snow

Mel Sandells [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: microwave, snow

Richard Essery [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics:

nicholas512 [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: earth science, geography

Nick [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: earth science, geography

rryanparkerr-gsc [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: earth science, geography

Unknown [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics:

mmazzolini [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics:

David Hill [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: climate-data, data-retrieval, precipitation-data, snotel, snow

Scott Stewart [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost, testing-tools

Kang Wang [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost

Kang [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost

Kang [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost

Elchin Jafarov [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost

Elchin Jafarov [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost

Kang [email protected]

OST Projects: 1
Categories: Cryosphere
Sub Categories: Snow and Permafrost
Topics: bmi, csdms, permafrost