High resolution (24km) snow cover data is only available since February 1997. Long-term data since October 1966 is at a significantly lower quality. The resolution is only 200km, data is weekly instead of daily, some dates in 1969 and 1971 are completely missing or the data is obviously false (mostly ice-free Greenland). However, having a longer record gives a better view of changes over time and a few missing days do not impact the decadal mean much. The baseline for anomaly calculation is 2000-2019