Item: SNOWPACK MODELING EFFORTS AT THE COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER
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Title: SNOWPACK MODELING EFFORTS AT THE COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop Proceedings 2023, Bend, Oregon
Authors:
- John Snook [ Colorado Avalanche Information Center, Boulder, CO, USA ]
- Mike Cooperstein [ Colorado Avalanche Information Center, Boulder, CO, USA ]
- Ethan Greene [ Colorado Avalanche Information Center, Boulder, CO, USA ]
Date: 2023-10-08
Abstract: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center started investigating operational applications of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Snowpack model in 2013. Driving the snowpack model with numerical weather prediction output allows the generation of snowpack profiles at remote locations where observational data is non-existent. Following several years of development, a system to update snowpack profiles daily using a 2-km grid covering the Colorado mountains was implemented for the 2022-23 season. Results are presented followed by plans to utilize snowpack profile averaging and clustering techniques.
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.03.pdf
Language of Article: English
Presenter(s): John Snook
Keywords: snowpack modeling, numerical weather prediction, avalanche forecasting
Page Number(s): 115 - 119
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