Ted Shultz and Mary Albert
Currently there is much research interest in the field of snow hydrology. It is well known that the stratigraphy and properties of a snow pack may change very significantly over time, and that they affect the nature of runoff. Research in snow hydrology often requires snow pit data as a description of the nature of the pack. It is the purpose of this paper to describe a new, easy-to-use procedure for automatically graphing snow pit stratigraphy using our custom macro for the commercially-available software, Excel97. This procedure allows the user to type in snow pit data and generates plots of either a single snow pit or multiple pits (in a time series, for example). This paper describes the development of the macro, provides a user guide to its use, shows example snow pit plots that can be generated, and points to a Web address where interested users can download the software.