Characterizing the nature and variability of avalanche hazard in western Canada

Shandro, Bret; Haegeli, Pascal

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1141-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1141-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1141-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

Research article

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12 Apr 2018

Research article |

| 12 Apr 2018

Characterizing the nature and variability of avalanche hazard in western Canada

Bret Shandro and Pascal Haegeli

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RC1: 'Review of Characterizing the nature and variability of avalanche hazard in western Canada', Cary Mock, 04 Feb 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to Cary Mock's review', Bret Shandro, 13 Feb 2018
RC2: 'Snow avalanches climate', Sergey Sokratov, 14 Feb 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Sergey Sokratov's review', Bret Shandro, 17 Feb 2018
  - RC4: 'Avalanche hazard', Sergey Sokratov, 26 Feb 2018
    - AC4: 'Reply to Sergey Sokratov's response', Bret Shandro, 07 Mar 2018
RC3: 'Review of nhess-2018-2', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Feb 2018
- AC3: 'Reply to an anonymous review', Bret Shandro, 26 Feb 2018

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (08 Mar 2018) by Sven Fuchs

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While the concept of snow and avalanche climates is widely used to describe the general nature of avalanche hazard, no research has described the hazard character of avalanche climates in detail. We use Canadian avalanche bulletin data that use the conceptual model of avalanche hazard from 2009/2010 to 2016/2017 to identify common hazard situations and calculate their seasonal prevalence. Our results provide detailed insights into the nature and variability of avalanche hazard in western Canada.