Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge support for this project by the University of Wisconsin Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education Fall Research Competition and the National Science Foundation (NSF AGS-1640452). Specialized computing resources have been provided by the University of Wisconsin Center for High Throughput Computing. We also thank contributions by and discussions with G. Bromley of Montana State University, M. Rydzik of Commodity Weather Group, and H. Miller of University of Kentucky. Data from cyclone simulations are in process of being archived and assigned a DOI at the Environmental Data Initiative prior to manuscript acceptance. Reviewers can access model output at: http://co2.aos.wisc.edu/data/snowcover/ .