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The story behind the StoryMap: A family’s tale of a rain-on-snow event

Story of a Nenets reindeer herder and how a catastrophic rain-on-snow event impacted his annual migration

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The story behind the StoryMap: A family’s tale of a rain-on-snow event

The Arctic Rain on Snow Study (AROSS) project, led by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), funded an award-winning StoryMap called "When Rains Fell in Winter," which tells the story of a Nenets reindeer herder named Tokcha Khudi and how a catastrophic rain-on-snow event impacted his annual migration on the Yamal Peninsula in 2013.

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