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Avalanche forecasting is in the process of undergoing a change from an intuitive art to a science. With the arrival of the personal computer, historical data bases of snow, weather and avalanche information are available and they can be used to help forecast avalanches. This paper deals with an attempt to couple such numerical information collected for an avalanche area with human expert belief and rules to enable a computer system to assist forecasters in operations. The first winter of field testing showed that computer assisted forecasting accuracy exceeded that of unaided forecasting.
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McClung, D.M. (1994). Computer Assisted Avalanche Forecasting. In: Hipel, K.W., Fang, L. (eds) Stochastic and Statistical Methods in Hydrology and Environmental Engineering. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 10/2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3081-5_26
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