A MACHINE LEARNING SURROGATE FOR ALPINE3D SNOWPACK SIMULATION: PERSISTENCE-BASED EVALUATION AND A PATH TOWARD SNOWDRIFT
Distributed snow-cover models such as Alpine3D and SNOWPACK provide spatially detailed information on snowpack evolution, surface energy balance, and terrain-driven variability that is relevant to avalanche operations.The drawback is the computational cost of high-resolution, multiseason simulations, which limits repea...