Description
This data release provides the data and code necessary to create a database of 18,809 site-specific Reliability-Targeted Snow Loads (RTSLs) for locations outside of the United States. RTSLs are the design snow load requirements necessary to achieve the reliability targets set forth in Chapter 1 of the ASCE 7 Standard, which is the national standard that largely governs hazards-based design in the United States. The intent of this release is to provide engineers seeking to use US-based design standards in international settings a database of snow load values consistent with the methodologies used to establish ground snow loads in ASCE 7-22.
Author ORCID Identifier
Nicholas Brimhall https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7410-0166
Cameron Swapp https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9019-1097
Brennan Bean https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2853-0455
Shaveen Britto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2540-4429
Document Type
Dataset
DCMI Type
Dataset
File Format
.R, .rda, .Rd, .cpp
Publication Date
9-10-2026
Publisher
Utah State University
Language
eng
Code Lists
see README
Disciplines
Statistics and Probability
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.26078/5n2y-3v61
Recommended Citation
Brimhall, Nicholas; Swapp, Cameron; Bean, Brennan; Britto, Shaveen; Gardner, Jayden; and Fluckiger, Hannah, "A Global Database of Reliability-Targeted Snow Loads" (2026). Browse all Datasets. Paper 272.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/all_datasets/272
Checksum
939aa14cf863cefb5694d442502f9054
Additional Files
README.txt (28 kB)cc75b1f235614cf6e3984bf086914843
rtsls.csv (6685 kB)
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depth_to_load.zip (35658 kB)
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ghcnd_warm.zip (250 kB)
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snoconus.maxes.zip (242286 kB)
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