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The following are further resources that will enhance your classroom learning. Some of the readings are directed an at audience with a technical nature and can be dry reading. Take your time, read slowly and come back to the articles a few times.
Introduction to Weather Papers:
- Mo R., Geng Q., Brugman M., Pearce G., Goosen J. and Snyder B. Collision of a Pineapple Express With An Arctic Outbreak Over Complex Terrains of British Columbia, Canada - Forecast Challenges and Lessons Learned. Pacific Storm Prediction Centre, Environment Canada, Vancouver, B.C.
- Armstrong R.L. and Armstrong B.R., 1986. Snow and Avalanche Climates of the Western United States: A Comparison of Maritime, Intermountain and Continental Conditions. CIRES, World Data Center- A for Glaciology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Fulcrum Inc., Golden, CO.
- Mock C.J. and Birkeland K.W., 2000. Snow Avalanche Climatology of the Western United States Mountain Ranges. Depatrment of Geography,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
- Haegeli P. and McClung D.M., 2007. Expanding the Snow-Climate Classification with Avalanche-Relevant Information: Initial Description of Avalanche Winter regimes For Southwestern Canada. Atmospheric Science Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.; Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
- Warner M., Mass C., 2012. Wintertime Extreme Precipitation Events along the Pacific Northwest Coast: Climatology and Synoptic Evolution
Advanced Weather Papers:
- Birkeland K.W., Mock C.J., and Shinker J.J., 2001. Avalanche Extremes and Atmospheric Circulation Patterns. Montana State University, Bozeman,
MT; Department of Geography, University of Carolina, Columbia, SC; Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
- Birkeland K.W. and Mock C.J., 2001. The Major Snow Avalanche Cycle of February 1986 in the Western United States. Department of Earth Sciences,
Montana State University, and US Forest Service National Avalanche Center, Bozeman, MT; Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
- Moore M., 2008& Enso and Avalanche Fatalities: Is There a Correlation? Northwest Weather and
Avalanche Center, Seattle, WA.
- Roeger C. and Stull R., McClung D. Hacker J., Deng X. and Modzelewski H, 2002. Verification of Mesoscale Numerical Weather Forecasts in Mountainous Terrain for Application to Avalanche Prediction. Department
of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.; Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
- Shandro B., Haegeli P., 2018. Effects of Large-Scale Atmospheric-Ocean Oscillations on the Nature of Avalanche Hazard in Western Canada.
- Thumlert S., Bellaire S., and Jamieson B., 2014. Relating Avalanches to Large-Scale Ocean-Atmospheric Oscillations.
- Picard L., Mass C., 2017. The Sensitivity of Orographic Precipitation to Flow Direction: An Idealized Modeling Approach
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