Item: Toward the Development of Areal Warning System of Blowing Snow
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Title: Toward the Development of Areal Warning System of Blowing Snow
Proceedings: Proceedings of the 1994 International Snow Science Workshop, Snowbird, Utah, USA
Authors:
- Masao Higashiura [ Shinjo Branch of Snow and Ice Studies, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Shinjo, Yamagata-ken, 996 Japan ]
- Takeshi Sato [ Shinjo Branch of Snow and Ice Studies, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Shinjo, Yamagata-ken, 996 Japan ]
- Tadashi Kimura [ Shinjo Branch of Snow and Ice Studies, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Shinjo, Yamagata-ken, 996 Japan ]
- Masayuki Maki [ Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science Division, NIED, Tsukuba, lbaraki-ken, 305 Japan ]
- Koyuru Iwanami [ Nagaoka Institute of Snow and Ice Studies, NIED, Nagaoka, Niigata-ken, 940 Japan ]
Date: 1994
Abstract: With rapid progress of motorization, automobile transportation has come into wide use in snowy regions in Japan. But such automobile transportation sometimes suffers from the snow disaster of blowing snow especially in the northern part of Japan. To reach a solution of this snow problem, the NIED undertook a joint study of blowing snow at the Tsugaru Plain and the possibility of areal prediction of blowing snow was made clear (Higashiura et al., 1993). On the basis of this result, a new project of an areal warning system of blowing snow was planned.
Language of Article: English
Presenters: Unknown
Keywords: blowing snow, transportation, forecasting, warning system
Page Number(s): 203-210
Subjects: blowing snow avalanche warning system avalanche forecasting
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