“…In the Central Cantabrian Mountains snow cover has been confirmed as an outstanding morphogenetic agent, causing landforms and associated deposits (Nossin, 1959;Ugarte, 1992;García de Celis, 1993Castañón and Frochoso, 1994;González Gutiérrez, 2002;González-Trueba, 2007b;Rodríguez-Pérez, 2009;Santos-González et al, 2009;González-Trueba and Serrano, 2010a, b;Santos-González, 2011;González-Trueba et al, 2012;Pellitero and Serrano, 2012;Pellitero, 2013Pellitero, , 2014Hernández Holgado, 2014;Ruiz-Fernández et al, 2015;Pisabarro et al, 2017), and there are natural hazards in mountain areas in which interaction of snow cover with topography, meteorological events or land cover is determinant (Wozniak and Marquínez, 2004;Vada et al, 2012Vada et al, , 2013García-Hernández et al, 2015Poblete et al, 2016;Serrano et al, 2016).…”