Summary & Purpose
Snow avalanches pose a hazard to people and infrastructure in alpine environments. We deployed two infrasound arrays along the Milford Road in Fiordland, New Zealand (Aotearoa) to detect, locate, and characterize snow avalanche activity. The Milford Road is a unique avalanche environment because of (a) the immense scale of avalanche activity, (b) the plunging style of avalanches, and (c) the maritime climate, which means that the snow and avalanche characteristics conditions are different to those previously examined in infrasound studies. This data set contains infrasound recordings for four different snow avalanches (two triggered events and two natural events). Data are redundantly provided in .mat and .csv formats.
Date of Publication or Submission
6-29-2021
DOI
10.18122/infrasound_data.7.boisestate
Funding Citation
NSF EAR Grant: 1949219
TARP Grant 3411019021
Data Source Credits
All data were collected using infrasBSU version #2 microphones.
Single Dataset or Series?
Series
Data Format
*.csv and *.mat
Note: The two provided formats contain the same information.
Data Attributes
see README.txt
Time Period
September 2020
Use Restrictions
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Recommended Citation
Watson, Leighton M.; Carpenter, Brad; Thompson, Kevin; and Johnson, Jeffrey B., "Dataset for Using Local Infrasound Arrays to Detect Plunging Snow Avalanches Along the Milford Road, New Zealand (Aotearoa)" (2021). Boise State University Infrasound Data Repository. 7.
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/infrasound_data/7