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12-03-2011, 10:20 PM #1Registered User
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A new format to display the evolution of our snowpack
What do you think?
http://winterscience.com/
My best effort so far to aggregate our data into one place. It's not perfect, and I look forward to comments.
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12-03-2011, 10:45 PM #2
Wow! that is awesome. Just diving in and first impressions; Very useful to get timelined data like that. love how seamless the photo obsoervation are. you can look at them without leaving the page.
Is there a way to adjust the outlook to a week / month / year timeline?
edit: found it. Top L on page. duh
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12-04-2011, 12:27 AM #3
Chris, I forwarded this my my partners at COAA. We might be in touch to learn how you didnthis, as it jibes with some things we were talking about.
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12-04-2011, 01:46 AM #4
would be intriguing to have the avy level forecast in a color coded line as. well. I assume the pink is forecast? Weather service, or avy service, or combination?
Nice aggregation. I'll pass it along to our Avy Center Group as well.
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12-04-2011, 02:02 AM #5
ooo, this is nice!
Damn, I wish I had the ability to do that.
I really like the wind rose. Some people may be unsure of it shows direction from, or direction to?
The comments link doesn't give any results.
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12-04-2011, 05:50 AM #6
Cmor, is this all refined data from CSI Dat files?
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12-04-2011, 11:26 AM #7
very cool
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12-04-2011, 11:31 AM #8
Hey, you even picked colors that the color-blind among us can discern. Less common than you'd think. Google Map's traffic coloring on iPhone is nearly impossible for me to decipher except for the worst of traffic situations (can't tell green from yellow nor yellow from orange in their color choices).
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12-04-2011, 02:14 PM #9
Very nice, easy to read (not colour blind ) and contains great info without being too crazy.
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12-04-2011, 10:09 PM #10Registered User
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Indirectly yes, we send our data to NWAC and then I just parse their page to take it back.
Originally Posted by Hohes
Originally Posted by Wendigo
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12-05-2011, 07:40 PM #11Registered User
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I like the layout, cool to see all that info in a nice compact infographic. Have a couple of questions:
How come new snow depth is kind of minimized in the interface (and it seems only SWE is shown and no inches of accumulation)? Seems like that should be given more prominence than temperature (especially since it has a greater impact on avalanche danger than temp as well as skiability).
Its cool to see all the info in one spot though is there a scenario for your users you want to highlight? A powder factor (ala the old power forecast site I cant remember the name of) or a danger factor?
Would also be cool to see some accounting of aspect in the data (since you are trying to pull in observations & profiles and whatnot).
BTW, the iPhone app NW Ski Buddy (maybe its NW Snow Buddy?) does some similar data aggregation on the NWAC data.
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12-05-2011, 08:31 PM #12
Really cool! I'm having a little trouble understanding the "precip since" row. A key would help, hope I'm not missing it. Thanks a lot, I'll pass it on to my friends.
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12-05-2011, 09:50 PM #13Registered User
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This doesn't tell me much about the structure of the snowpack (i.e., buried surface Hoar layers, RFC layers, etc...). But, it is "interesting" from a HS, HNS and SWE standpoint.
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12-05-2011, 11:06 PM #14Registered User
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You and everyone else. At some point I will add a help icon. The idea behind precip since is looking at the amount of water since that date. i.e. since Nov 21 we've had 9.13" of water. The idea behind it being, if there was a weak layer formed on Nov 21st, you could look to easily see how much load had been put on that layer, and if enough rain has fallen to likely settle it. I am constantly trying to figure out how much water we've gotten in a certain time frame, hopefully that will make it a bit quicker.
Originally Posted by Hacksaw
It is not necessarily targeted to a professional audience, but it is targeted to someone with a decent amount of avalanche experience. If it's possible to simplify further and expand the audience I would. It is easy to over complicate the problem, when it is usually the same issues repeating themselves. Anyone have suggestions on that side of things? A small help pop-pup would be useful if nothing else, although I would like to keep it as training free as possible.
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12-06-2011, 06:45 AM #15Banned
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this^^^^^^^^
Anyone have suggestions on that side of things?
to be quite honest, i looked at that chart and was like, wha?
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01-28-2012, 11:51 PM #16Registered User
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The more you get into the avalanche forecasting side of things, even if it is only recreationally oriented, the more you have to track the weather. Often times you need to look at layers formed weeks or months ago. It is very difficult to look through pages and pages of telemetry to do this, especially if you don't have the good fortune of living in the mountains to constantly keep up to date. In my pit work lately any time there is a layer I cannot place temporally, I've been pulling this up on the smartphone to be sure of the date and conditions it formed under. The advisory should be your first piece of information and is adequate for many users, but to dig deeper it is important to look at the actual weather data.
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02-02-2012, 09:34 AM #17
very nice
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