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Open tools for understanding snow, weather, and avalanche hazard.

From data ingestion and physical modeling to hazard assessment and forecast generation, our tools are designed to be modular, extensible, and easy to use.

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The DRIFT Engine

A complete operational toolchain for avalanche forecasting.
From raw data and observations to actionable forecast products.

The DRIFT Process

DRIFT is a mental framework for organizing how you think about avalanche forecasting. It's an acronym for the five stages of the process: Data, Refinement, Inference, Forecasting, and Transmission.

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Our Open Source Roadmap

We're building a complete open source operational toolchain for avalanche forecasting.

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DRIFT

A platform for transforming observational data, weather forecasts, and field reports into avalanche forecast products.

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CMake3%
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SHEAR

A modular reasoning engine that transforms physically detailed snowpack simulations into structured avalanche hazard assessments.

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In Development

Flow

High-performance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for atmospheric boundary layer simulation over complex alpine terrain.

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Hazard

A header-only C++ library to build, convert, and validate avalanche hazard assessments across international standards.

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