Some of the snowiest parts of the Himalayas may be receiving significantly more snowfall than existing global weather datasets indicate, according to a new international study. Scientists involved in the research concluded that “Existing weather models are failing to accurately capture snowfall across the region’s rugged mountain terrain," according to Gaurav Talwar's Times of India report.
The study, published this month in the peer-reviewed Monthly Weather Review journal of the American Meteorological Society, found that widely used global atmospheric datasets consistently underestimate snowfall across the western-central Himalayas, particularly during major winter storms. Researchers said the findings could help improve snowfall forecasts, water resource planning and avalanche hazard assessments across the region.
