{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": { "slideshow": { "slide_type": "slide" } }, "source": [ "### Motivation & Project Description" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": { "slideshow": { "slide_type": "subslide" } }, "source": [ "The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) uses SNOWPACK, a land and snow surface model, to evaluate snow layers and predict avalanches. They currenty use High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for model inputs, but the 3km resolution is relatively imprecise; namely, snow depth data at that resolution are not as useful for finer forecasting as lower resolution data.\n", "\n", "The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has hundreds of Snow Telemetry (SnoTel) weather reporting sites in place across the country, and they record various weather values on an hourly basis; these include precipitation, temperature, wind speed, and--the focus of our project--snow depth. These data are not perfect, however, as the ultrasonic depth sensors are sensitive to factors such as wind, obstruction, and surfaces that are poor reflectors of sound (such as low density snow). \n", "\n", "Our goal is to provide the CAIC with a more accurate estimate of the true snow depth at any given hour by incorporating and modifying the methods laid out by previous researchers." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": { "slideshow": { "slide_type": "slide" } }, "source": [ "### The Data" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 3, "metadata": { "ExecuteTime": { "end_time": "2021-01-13T05:12:12.242600Z", "start_time": "2021-01-13T05:12:12.233228Z" }, "slideshow": { "slide_type": "notes" } }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# Libraries - Pandas for data wrangling; Numpy for math; Matplotlib for visualization\n", "import pandas as pd\n", "import numpy as np\n", "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n", "%matplotlib inline" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 4, "metadata": { "ExecuteTime": { "end_time": "2021-01-13T05:12:23.480945Z", "start_time": "2021-01-13T05:12:23.445786Z" }, "slideshow": { "slide_type": "subslide" } }, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/html": [ "
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