Observed arrival · 2026-09-23
A snow-climate lab for the warming Levant
MetRamzi pairs an interactive atmospheric-condition explorer with research on snow and winter cyclones across the Levant.
- For
- Readers exploring Levant snow and regional atmospheric conditions
- Worth noticing
- It distinguishes robust Levant-wide declines in snow-supporting conditions from less-robust local Jordanian results.
Field notes
The lab applies two regional inputs—850 hPa temperature and 500 hPa geopotential height—to empirical thresholds, and explicitly warns that moisture, local elevation, and the full temperature profile also matter. The research draws on ERA5 and ERA5-Land records, cyclone tracks, climate indices, and wet-bulb-zero height. Its methods distinguish atmospheric suitability from surface snow diagnostics, and the page flags reanalysis uncertainty and the limits of its accumulation-pulse counts.
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