Predicting Avalanches - by being buried!

[Tom Rankin]

"Not long ago, Ed Adams, a civil engineering professor, studied avalanches by setting them off with dynamite and studying their movement as they buried him, his instruments and his colleagues in a tiny shack."

NYT Article

 

[DougPaul]

The article requires registration.

There was a PBS special on avalanches a while ago. Among other things, it showed a group building a small shelter in an avalanche chute, setting off an avalanche, and making measurements as the snow flew by. Don't know if it is the same group.

Doug

 

[Tom Rankin]

The article requires registration.

There was a PBS special on avalanches a while ago. Among other things, it showed a group building a small shelter in an avalanche chute, setting off an avalanche, and making measurements as the snow flew by. Don't know if it is the same group.

Doug

The NYTs is valuable enough to me that I registered. It's free and does not seem to produce any spam.

 

[kevinmac]

thanks, nice article and it opened without registration on my end

 

[Rob S]

thanks, nice article and it opened without registration on my end

Ditto. No reg required.

 

[Chip]

No registration required here, either.

Here's another article that happened to be in the WSJ today.

"Last winter 36 snow enthusiasts were killed in avalanches in the U.S., a record. And barely a month into the current snow season, 13 more people have died so far."

 

[DougPaul]

The article requires registration.

I was able to read it with another copy of my browser which had a number of the security settings turned off.

I'm not going to take the time to figure out what it is triggering on, but I guess the NYT doesn't like higher-security readers...

Doug