Abstract
The paper substantiates a necessity to create maps of snow cover characteristics in Belarus. The designed maps can be used by engineers to forecast spring floods on the rivers of Belarus and to assign snow load limits imposed on buildings and structures.
Highlights
Snow cover is one of the most important climate forming factors
Mapping snow cover characteristics is of practical significance to us because the maps created in this research can supplement the ones already published, like in [15]
They can become a basis for creating maps of snow areas [16] which can be applied by engineers to assign snow load limits to buildings and structures
Summary
Snow has a great influence on the climate in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere where Belarus is located. It predetermines the pattern of calendar seasons, the annual course of air temperature as well as weather changes during the day. Much of current research is devoted to both the study how climate warming influences the characteristics of snow cover and the study of snow cover as a factor of climate change [1–8, etc.]. Snow cover is a layer of snow on the ground surface that forms as a result of precipitation. Snow cover includes ice layers that form on the surface of snow and soil and melt water accumulating under the snow
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