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Simulated avalanche problem types and seismic avalanche activity around Weissfluhjoch

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Avalanche problem types were derived from snow cover simulations with the models Crocus and SNOWPACK at the Weissfluhjoch study plot, Davos, CH. The data include annual frequencies...

Fiber Bundle Model for snow failure and concurrent Acoustic Emissions

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This dataset contains modeled and experimental results for laboratory snow failure experiments and the concurrent acoustic emissions signatures for different loading rates. For...

Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

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When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

L-Band Radiometry of Alpine Seasonal Snow Cover: 4 Years at the Davos-Laret Remote Sensing Field Laboratory

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Dataset from the publication "L-Band Radiometry of Alpine Seasonal Snow Cover: 4 Years at the Davos-Laret Remote Sensing Field Laboratory", under review in IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED...

Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

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This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at 4...

GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

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Snowprofile from 11 observer sites in Switzerland compiled for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Height of snow (cm) and snow water equivalent (mm) are recorded every 2...

3D_Snow_Models

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The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types are...

Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

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Total water reserves of the snow cover [mio m3] for Wägital catchment, Switzerland, for reference date April 1. Data is separated in 2 elevation zones 900m-1500m asl and...

Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

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Stable water isotopes (δ18O) obtained from snow and ice samples of polar regions are used to reconstruct past climate variability, but heat and mass transport processes can affect...

Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp

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Overview We present GROUNDEYE, a new model of radiative transfer over mountainous terrain, which considers for the first time the forward scattering properties of snow. Embedded...

Kinetic experiments on the oxidation of bromide by ozone from 289-245 K.

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The reaction of ozone with bromide in polar regions results in the formation of reactive bromide species with impacts on ozone budget and the oxidative capacity of the lower...

Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

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Snow and air data was monitored at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) by an infrarot radiometer (Campbell SI-111) for snow temperature (°C), a snow height sensor (Lufft SHM-31)...

Satellite avalanche mapping validation data

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Validation points, validation area, ground truth coverage, SPOT 6 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-1 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-2 avalanche outlines, Davos avalanche mapping...

Dataset for "Dynamic crack propagation in weak snowpack layers: Insights from high-resolution, high-speed photography"

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This data set includes material and results described in the related research article:

Bergfeld, B., van Herwijnen, A., Reuter, B., Bobillier, G., Dual, J., and Schweizer, J.:...

Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

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Preferential deposition of snow and dust over complex terrain is responsible for a wide range of environmental processes, and accounts for a significant source of uncertainty in...

IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

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The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created during...

Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

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This dataset contains the SnowMicroPen (SMP) data from 38 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winters 2015/16...

Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

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This dataset contains the data used in the publication by Techel et al., 2018 Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts - a case study in the European Alps (Nat Haz...

SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

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Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

Crack propagation speeds in weak snowpack layers from three events: PST, whumpf and slab avalanche

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For the release of a slab avalanche, crack propagation within a weak snowpack layer below a cohesive snow slab is required. As crack speed measurements can give insight into the...