"Is now present in that valley? At what elevation is the terrain snow covered? Was somebody on that slope?"
Mysnowmaps allows to answer to these questions as it daily updates the snow information on the territory, thus helping to plan in advance your excursion.
SNOW MAPS
Mysnowmaps provides information on snow evolution through the use of colored maps that, through a legenda, allow to interpret the snow height in all the territory at a given date.
Three types of snow layers are available:
SNOW HEIGHT: reports the snow height (cm) estimated at a given date;
NEW SNOW: reports the new snow (cm) fallen in the previous 72 h;
SNOW FORECAST: reports the predicted new snow (cm) to come in the following 72 h.
PRODUCTION OF MAPS
The snow maps are the result of an innovative system of mathematical models called SnowMaps that calculates from remote the snow evolution in real time. SnowMaps takes in input the data coming from the mete stations, the snow measures from the official monitoring network and the weather forecast. Thanks to a mass and energy balance in the snowpack, the algorithm determines the accumlation, compaction and melting of the snow and thus updates the estimates for the snow height. Differently from other approaches, SnowMaps takes into account the morophological heterogeneity of the terrain (elevation, slope, aspect) thus providing a consistent estimate of snow presence in every valley and slope.
ADVANTAGES
better consinstency of morphological heterogeneiry in mountain terrain;
always operative;
various layers of information (snow and morphology maps);
accurate in forecast.
VALIDATIONS
SnowMaps has been tested during 2011-2012 in the Dolomites thanks to a collaboration with the Snow and Avalanche center in Arabba and since then applied operatively in most Italian Alps as a helping tool for the analysis of the snow evolution. Since 2015-2016 SnowMaps is operative all over the Alps and receives the snow data from more than 400 snow gauges.
REFERENCES
For further information (in Italian):
SnowMaps: realizzazione di mappe di innevamento a supporto della previsione valanghe, Neve e Valanghe, 83, 20–27.
consultabile dal sito AINEVA: http://www.aineva.it/pubblica/neve83/nv83_3.pdf
FAQ - Frequented asked questions
Do you have any doubt about the functioning of the app or any other question? Please visit FAQ to find a possible answer or just contact us using the below reported form!
Set the blue indicator on the desider location
Draw the trail
Click with the mouse to draw the trail on the map. Click and drag the points of the trail to modify their position.
Click on the trail to add a new point.
Upload a snow measurement or review an excursion
A snow measurement
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Review an excursion
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Mysnowmaps allows to answer to these questions as it daily updates the snow information on the territory, thus helping to plan in advance your excursion.
