Distribution of snow storage in the Altai territory

The characteristics of snow cover (survey) and the maximum snow storage in the Altai Territory is it from route snow surveys weather stations. Snow depth in the Altai Territory regularly increases in the direction from south-west to north-east and east due to higher altitude, reduce the dryness of the climate, the landscape change from the steppe to the forest. The variability of snow cover and snow storage for the period 1966-2015 increases in forest-steppe (Barnaul) and forest Salair Ridge and Altai, slightly cutting into the wilderness.