Acknowledgments
Open access funding provided by Lund University. We are grateful to the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University for the grant received to promote research integration and advancement of early-career researchers at the department 2018. We are also grateful to Anders Michelsen for valuable input. This study has been made possible by data provided by the Abisko Scientific Research Station and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). J.T. is financially supported by Swedish FORMAS mobility grant (2016-01580) and acknowledges support from Lund University strategic research area Modelling the Regional and Global Earth System, MERGE. A.P acknowledges financial support from the Swedish Research Council (WinterGap, registration no. 2017-05268) and the Research Council of Norway (WINTERPROOF, project no. 274711).