Western Snow Conference

Proceedings of the 55th Annual Western Snow Conference

April 14-16, 1987

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Introductory Materials

Cover Page

Title Page

Table of Contents

Executive Meeting Minutes

Business Meeting Minutes

Meeting Attendees

Papers

Settlement Pressures on Roof Structures

Albrecht, R.G.

 

The Role of Micro-Computers in Data Acquisition and Analysis at the Salt River Project

Anderson, R.K. and C.E. Ester

 

Accuracy and Repeatability of In Situ Snow Wetness Measurements using the Newly Developed Twin-Disc Capacitance Sensor

Bergman, J.A.

 

Assessing Landslide Occurrence with Snow Data and other Site Information

Cheng, J.D.

 

Heavy Snow Failures

Coen Ph.D., C.C. and D.A. Crane

 

Diurnal Fluctuations in Remote Precipitation Gage Readings

Cooley, K.R., D.C. Robertson, D. Lute and G.A. Beard

 

The Contribution of Snotel Precipitation Measurements to Climate Analysis, Monitoring and Research in Colorado

Doeskin, N.J. and G.L. Schaefer

 

Graphics System for Snotel Data

Grimsted, L.A.

 

Scaling and Constructing Models for Outdoor Snowdrift Tests

Jairell, R.L. and R.A. Schmidt

 

Methods of Estimating Liquid Water Storage in Snowpacks

Kattelman R.

 

A Microcomputers-Based Watershed Modeling and Data-Management

Leavesley, G.H., A.M. Lumb and L.G. Saindon

 

Factors Limiting Snowmelt Runoff in a Permafrost Environment

March, P.

 

Roof Snow Loads; Drifting Against a Higher Wall

O’Rourke, M. and K.E. Hmadi

 

Observations on Consistency and Reliability of Field Data in Snow Survey Measurements

Powell, D.

 

Snowmelt-Runoff Modeling in the Microcomputer Environment

Rango, A. and R. Roberts

 

Designing Structures for Snow Loads

Sack, R.L.

 

Roof Load Predictions using Artificial Snow

Sack, R.L. and P.M. Giever

 

Reliability of Results and Conclusions based on Statistical Analysis of Hydrological Data in Land-use Hydrology

Salway, A.A.

 

Slide Rule for Snow Fence Design

Tabler, R.D.

 

Snow Loads on Multi-level Flat Roofs in Canada

Taylor, D.A.

 

Runoff in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Water Years 1983-85, and Comparisons with Forecasts of Runoff to Lake Powell

Wahl, K.L., D.L. Collins and B.N. Aldridge

 

Interception and Redistribution of Snow in a Subalpine Forest on a Storm-by-Storm Basis

Wheeler, K.

 

Snow Notes:

 

Bear Encounters of the Furry Kind

Editor – April 1987

 

Close Encounters of the Bear Kind

Schilling, Denice and Phillip Farnes

 

Hibernation – On a Snow Course

Gallinger, Rose

 

A Grizzly Tale

Snow Survey Office

 

The Great (but brief) Yukon Snow Pillow Project

Peterson, Eric

 

Smelly Enough, “Tall Tales of British Columbia”

Roberts, John

 

The Navajo Nation Mountain Precipitation Program

Becker, Robert J.