Ground to Roof Snow Load Ratio (GR) Data Release

Creators

• Brennan Bean, Utah State UniversityFollow
• Cooper Nelson, Utah State UniversityFollow
• Jesse Wheeler, Utah State UniversityFollow
• Scout Jarman, Utah State UniversityFollow
• Salam Adil Al-Rubaye, Utah State UniversityFollow
• Marc Maguire, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Description

This data release provides historical ground-to-roof snow load ratio (GR) datasets used for snow load research and model development. The release includes original referenced datasets, cleaned country specific datasets, and a master dataset that combines Canadian and United States datasets into a standardized format for research and engineering applications.

Author ORCID Identifier

Brennan Bean https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2853-0455

Document Type

Dataset

DCMI Type

Dataset

File Format

.csv, .R

Viewing Instructions

When using the tidyverse "read_csv" function in R to read in the master dataset, variables may be misread as logical instead of character. Use "guess_max = Inf" as an additional arguement to fix this. (ex. read_csv("gr_final_combined.csv", guess_max = Inf))

Publication Date

8-4-2026

Publisher

Utah State University

Methodology

see README

Language

eng

Code Lists

see README

Comments

If this dataset is used in research or publications, please cite this data release along with the original data sources listed in the README file.

Disciplines

Applied Statistics | Climate | Structural Engineering

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Bean, B., Nelson, C., Wheeler, J., Jarman, S., Al-Rubaye, S. A., & Maguire, M. (2026). Ground to Roof Snow Load Ratio (GR) Data Release [Dataset]. Utah State University.

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