Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies – Serving the Mountain Community since 2003
Description: dust on snow monitoring and research in Colorado and for the Colorado River Basin, Rio Grande River Basin, Denver Water, Grand Junction and more water stakeholders
The Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies (CSAS) is home to \u201CCODOS\u201D, the Colorado Dust-on-Snow program, an applied science effort on behalf of Colorado and regional water management agencies. CSAS operates the Senator Beck Basin study area at Red Mountain Pass as the primary sentry site for the CODOS program. With direct funding from stakeholders , CSAS monitors the presence/absence of dust layers at 11 mountain pass locations throughout Colorado. Using those observations, data from nearby S
The Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies (CSAS) is home to “CODOS”, the Colorado Dust-on-Snow program, an applied science effort on behalf of Colorado and regional water management agencies. CSAS operates the Senator Beck Basin study area at Red Mountain Pass as the primary sentry site for the CODOS program. With direct funding from stakeholders , CSAS monitors the presence/absence of dust layers at 11 mountain pass locations throughout Colorado. Using those observations, data from nearby Snotel sites,
For a crash course on dust-on-snow read this article published in the Water Report.
Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies – Serving the Mountain Community since 2003