Item: Touring snowpack observations, a tool for avalanche forecasting programs - The Italian Experience
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Title: Touring snowpack observations, a tool for avalanche forecasting programs - The Italian Experience
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop Proceedings 2018, Innsbruck, Austria
Authors:
- Flavio Berbenni [ ARPA Lombardia - Centro Nivometeorologico Bormio, Bormio, SO, Italy ]
- Faletto Mattia [ ARPA Piemonte - Dipartimento Rischi Naturali, Torino, TO, Italy ]
- Paola Dellavedova [ Fondazione Montagna Sicura, Courmayeur, AO, Italy ]
- Chiambretti Igor [ AINEVA, Trento, TN, Italy ]
Date: 2018-10-07
Abstract: Accurate snowpack observations along carefully planned routes on mountain ranges are an unvaluable tool for avalanche forecasters and during the managing of civil protection emergencies to estimate the danger level. Such observations are enormously helpful in understanding and predicting snow’s behaviour and in completing the avalanche scenario depicted from other's data sources as well as in accurately verify the forecasted danger level. This paper describes the techniques adopted by snow observers and the potential predictors evaluated during such activities.
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.9.pdf
Language of Article: English
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Keywords: avalanche forecasting, software, data visualization
Page Number(s): 1079-1082
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