earthkit.climate.land.snow.snw_season_start¶
- earthkit.climate.land.snow.snw_season_start(snw: xarray.DataArray | str = 'snw', ds: xarray.Dataset | Any = None, *, thresh: Any = '4 kg m-2', window: int = 14, freq: str = 'YS-JUL', **kwargs: Any) Any¶
Snow cover start date (amount).
The first date on which snow amount is greater than or equal to a given threshold for a given number of consecutive days.
Units:
snw_season_start: dimensionless
This function wraps xclim.indicators.land.snw_season_start.
- Parameters:
snw (
xarray.DataArray | str) – Surface snow amount.thresh (
Any) – Threshold snow amount.window (
int) – Minimum number of days with snow amount above or equal to the threshold.freq (
str) – Resampling frequency.ds (
xarray.Dataset | Any) – Input dataset.**kwargs (
Any) – Additional keyword arguments.
- Returns:
The computed index.
- Return type:
Any