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Snow water equivalent (SWE) in ERA5, ERA5-Snow and ERA5-Land has been validated against in situ observations (snow course in Canada) by Chris Derksen (ECCC). He pointed out that ERA5 and ERA5-Snow don't represent SWE more than 500mm (personal communication). We found it is caused by a cap value of 1.4m in snow depth analysis. It has been changed to 3.0m in the latest experiment.
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