Assessment of the main characteristics of the snow cover in the Altai territory with the use of landscape-indicator methods

Systematization of weather data on the height of the snow cover and the water supply in the snow as a result of route snow surveys was carried out. It is revealed that the main snow reserves are formed not in the high-altitude zone of the greatest precipitation of solid precipitation, but in areas where the type of the landscape contributes to their accumulation is the territory of the Salair province occupied by aspen-fir vegetation. The map “The average annual snow cover height and maximum snow reserves within the landscape provinces of the Altai Territory” is 1: 2500000 scales.