Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL

Large-scale risk assessment on snow avalanche hazard in alpine regions

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Potential release files and the artificial RAMMS avalanche simulation output files as well as exposure geodataframe for the case study region of Ortner et al. 2022. Furthermore,...

Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

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This dataset contains the output and reference data published in the paper "Automated snow avalanche release area delineation - validation of existing algorithms and proposition of...

Weather, snowpack and danger ratings data for automated avalanche danger level predictions

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Each set includes the meteorological variables (resampled 24-hour averages) and the profile variables extracted from the simulated profiles for each of the weather stations of the...

Observational data: avalanche observations, danger signs and stability test results, Switzerland (2016/2017 to 2020/2021 )

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This is the freely available part of the data used in the publication by Techel et al. (2022): _On the correlation between a sub-level qualifier refining the danger level with...

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...

Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above...

How is avalanche danger described in textual descriptions in avalanche forecasts in Switzerland?

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The data set contains the danger descriptions (German) of the avalanche forecasts published at 5 pm between 27-Nov-2012 and 13-Feb-2020.

Automatic Classification of Avalanches

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This dataset contains the classification and localization results obtained during the automatic classification of avalanches during the winter season 2017.

Snow Depth Mapping

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The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 2m generated from image matching of ADS 80/100 data. Image acquisition took place at peak of winter (time...

Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations

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The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural...

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...

SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 16 January 2019

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Outlines of 6'041 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 16 January 2019. The dataset was acquired following a period with very high avalanche danger....

Glide-snow avalanche activity on Dorfberg, Davos, Switzerland

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This dataset includes the processed data of the glide-snow avalanche activity and dynamics on Dorfberg (Davos, Switzerland) covering seasons 2008/09 to 2021/22. This dataset was...

Field observations of snow instabilities

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This data set includes 589 snow profile observations including a rutschblock test, observations of signs of instability and an assessment of the local avalanche danger level,...

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...

Data reliability study: avalanche size estimates and outlines

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This dataset contains the data used and collected to investigate the reliability of avalanche size estimates and avalanche outlines (see related publications). Namely this is

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Large Scale Hazard Indication Simulations for avalanches, canton of Grisons

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We developed a workflow to generate Large Scale Hazard Simulations for avalanches based on digital elevation models and information on the protective function of the forest. This...

Weather, snowpack and avalanche occurrence data for automated prediction of wet-snow avalanche activity

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Datasets used to implement the wet-snow avalanche activity model presented in the article:

Hendrick, M., Techel, F., Volpi, M., Olevski, T., Pérez-Guillén, C., van Herwijnen, A.,...