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Weather Patterns and What’s on the Ground Is this a drought year?. 7 drier winters as of 1/8/2006 (8.57 in SWE):. Snow Depth 1/12/06: 102 in. Running SWE 1/12/06: 29.55 in. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Season SWE as of 01/08
Season
SWE
1976-77 ? 10 in.
1986-87 4.5 in. 28.36 in
1989-90 7.1 in. 24.5 in.
1990-91 4.5 in. 28.36 in.
1995-96 5.9 in. 64.8 in. (6th biggest winter on record
1999-00: 3.44 in. 49.09 in.
2000-01 6.2 in. 35.45 in.
7 drier winters as of 1/8/2006 (8.57 in SWE):
Steenburgh et al in “One Hundred Inches in One Hundred Hours: Evolution of a Wasatch Mountain Winter Storm Cycle” (2003) describe the intrusion of low equivalent potential temperature (e) air aloft in advance of a surface based cold front.
Vertical motion maxima accompany the low level zone of warm advection.
Forecasting
"A computer lets you make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and
tequila." - D. W. McArthur
Cornice 2.0
Nearest Neighbors Forecasting System.
Plots meteorological variables in a multidimensional space. Variables are scaled (0-100) to take into account differences in units.
A genetic algorithm then assigns weights to each of the variables used, since certain variables are more important than others.
Historic morning observations for Main Lodge which most closely resemble today (neighbors) are found and ranked according to a Euclidean distance.
Today’s forecast consists of today’s observations plus the previous three days. Neighbors are found based on closest days and previous three days to that day.
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