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Alpine Kinetics is a research and product lab building software and infrastructure to help people and teams understand snow, weather, and avalanche dynamics.

Our Mission

Empowering mountain people with intelligent tools that enhance human expertise and decision-making in alpine environments.

Elite tools for everyone

State-of-the-art snow cover models, wind simulation, and physical snowpack modeling are only available to academics and the most sophisticated avalanche centers in the world.

We're democratizing access to these capabilities.

Introducing DRIFT

The data infrastructure layer for building the next generation of avalanche forecasting software. DRIFT connects snow and weather data sources, physical snow and wind models, and international hazard standards into a unified, instrumentable system.

DRIFT = Software + Mental Model

DRIFT is both a piece of software and a process — a mental framework for thinking about the stages of a forecasting operational toolchain. Each letter defines a stage of the pipeline, from raw data ingestion through final product distribution.

D
DataWeather stations, NWP, field observations
R
RefinementQC, filtering, gap-filling, validation
I
InferenceSNOWPACK, Alpine3D, Flow, SHEAR
F
ForecastingCMAH, EAWS, hazard synthesis
T
TransmissionProducts, graphics, distribution
D
Data
Weather stations, NWP, field observations
R
Refinement
QC, filtering, gap-filling, validation
I
Inference
SNOWPACK, Alpine3D, Flow, SHEAR
F
Forecasting
CMAH, EAWS, hazard synthesis
T
Transmission
Products, graphics, distribution
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