Fig. 2: Factors influencing the snow probability contrast between buffer and urban regions.
From: Imprint of urbanization on snow precipitation over the continental USA
Contrasts are evaluated for snow-dominated precipitation events (SDEs) with snow probability >50% (SDE50). a Difference in mean temperature between buffer and urban regions. Percentage, shown in blue text, in the first (third) quadrant represents the fraction of urban–buffer pairs (UBPs) with positive (negative) difference between average snow probabilities (daSP) with higher average buffer (urban) temperature than in the urban (buffer) region. b Average percentage (%) of SDE50-days on which the concerned energy flux is larger in buffer as compared to urban region. Difference in c average snow probability and d average fractional occurrence frequency, of SDEs within defined snow probability ranges. The fractional occurrence frequency for an urban (buffer) region is calculated as the ratio of SDEs within a given snow probability range to the total number of SDEs. The average of these ratios over all urban (buffer) regions gives the average fractional occurrence frequency. Source data are provided in Source_data.xlsx, on the sheet called Main figure_2.
