“…Climatic drivers have significant role on the environmental processes such as meteorology, hydrology and water cycle (Dawson et al, 2014;Allan et al, 2020;Lee et al, 2020), and they also have important implications in forestry-related applications (Nuri and Mutlu, 2009;Eken and Oner, 2017;Corbaci et al, 2019;Bilgili et al, 2020). As one of the main climatic drivers, snow cover is an important physical element of the cryosphere, which plays a crucial role on the Earth's radiation budget (Dietz et al, 2012), as well as on many environmental processes directly related to hydrology, ecology and meteorology at both regional and global scales (Tekeli et al, 2005;Akyürek et al, 2010;Kuter et al, 2022).…”