CryoSENSE-HK: Explainable Lead-Time Forecasting of ERA5-Land Snow State, Bounded by Station and Physically Based References (Hakkari, Türkiye)
In the semi-arid Cilo-Sat cryosphere of Hakkari Province, Türkiye, mountain snow is the dominant freshwater store, and a sparse ground network leaves reanalysis as the only practical source of data. This study introduces CryoSENSE-HK, an explainable machine-learning framework that forecasts ERA5-Land snow cover, snow w...