The first week in November
2008, the IMS team members saw increases in snow cover over the
Tibetan Plateau region of China. The Tibetan Plateau observed up to
2 meters of
snow over some parts of Lhunze county, in Tibet’s Shannan district.
Nearly 2000 people
needed to be evacuated, while herds of livestock were threatened. Nine
people were killed in
this event. The National Ice Center helped capture these snow events
in the InteractiveMulti-sensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) output.
This output initializes National
Weather Service models for snow cover conditions, even during active events,
to ensureaccurate and dependable forecasts.
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