Progress and conduct of California cooperative snow surveys

A brief history of snow surveying in California and the legislative action creating the California Cooperative Snow Survey Program is presented. Details of financing the initial program is discussed along with cooperation arrangements of Federal, State, private irrigation and power companies, municipal water departments are discussed. Field procedures and equipment used together with instruction methods and procedures of stocking shelter cabins are discusses. A list of cooperators who are servicing some 134 snow survey courses is shown. Water Supply Forecasting procedures are described using tentative normals of snow data for the percentage or index methods are discussed. A tabulation of forecast accuracy is shown. Procedures for publication and disseminating current data are explained. A discussion of problem areas and river basins is included.