48 datasets found

  • Field observations of snow instabilities

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    Education, culture and sport

    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,...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

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    • CSV
    • snow
    • avalanche-forecasting
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-danger
    • danger-level
    • snow-instability
  • 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...

    Last updated: June 5, 2021

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    • albedo
    • shortwave-radiation
    • photovoltaic
    • winter-energy-production
    • snow
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

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    These data were used to drive and evaluate Jules Investigation Model (JIM) snow simulations. The data provided are the forcing data used for the "deterministic" runs as described...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-simulation
    • jim
    • snow-depth
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow
  • Monitoring data sets of alpine photovoltaic power-plants

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    On this repository you can find the monitoring data of the 3 PV power-plants analysed in the article _"Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine...

    Last updated: September 3, 2024

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • alps
    • photovoltaic
    • bifaciality
    • winter-electricity
  • Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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    The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript (doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822).

    Manuscript...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TXT
    • snow
    • erosion
    • sediment-transport
    • mars
    • model
  • 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...

    Last updated: February 19, 2023

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • icecube
    • microct
    • intercomparison
    • specific-surface-area
    • snow
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

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    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

    Last updated: May 20, 2020

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    • hydrology
    • climate-change-impacts
    • water-cycle
    • snowfall
    • snow
  • 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...

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • wind-packing
    • wind-crust
    • snowmicropen
    • smp
    • snow
  • GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

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    This dataset contains long-term snow water equivalent and corresponding snow depth data 11 observer sites in Switzerland between 1200 and 2500 m a.s.l. compiled for the Global...

    Last updated: August 5, 2024

    • TXT
    • CSV
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-height
    • snow-profile
    • gcos
  • 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...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • snow
    • warning-regions
    • avalanche-forecast
    • danger-level
    • european-alps
  • Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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    Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and...

    Last updated: July 16, 2020

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    • PDF
    • arctic
    • chemistry
    • interface
    • alpine
    • ozone
    • heterogeneous
    • solution
    • antarctica
    • snow
    • brine
    • laboratory-study
    • metamorphism
    • reaction
  • 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...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • arctic
    • antartic
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • laboratory-study
    • cryosphere
    • polar
    • snow
  • 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...

    Last updated: July 22, 2020

    • ZIP
    • snow-mechanics
    • viscous-deformation
    • snow-avalanche
    • fiber-bundle-model
    • snow-failure
    • snow
    • acoustic-emissions
    • sintering
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden

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    This is the simulation dataset from "Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland", M. Bavay, T. Grünewald, M. Lehning,...

    Last updated: November 12, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • climate-change
    • snow
    • graubunden
    • switzerland
  • Automatic detection of avalanches

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    This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduced...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • seismic
    • monitoring
    • avalanche-activity
    • snow
    • hidden-markov-model
  • 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...

    Last updated: September 4, 2024

    • SHP
    • satellite
    • natural-hazard
    • hazard-mapping
    • snow
    • avalanche
  • UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH

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    This snow depth map was generated 14 January 2015, close to peak of winter accumulation, applying Unmanned Aerial System digital surface models with a spatial resolution of 10 cm....

    Last updated: January 17, 2024

    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • remote-sensing
    • snow-depth
    • swe
    • uas
    • snow
  • Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

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    Overview The SUNWELL Modelling Environment is a combination of data and code that models electricity production from satellite-derived irradiance data and other spatial data sets...

    Last updated: July 3, 2024

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • snow
    • albedo
    • reflection
    • photovoltaic
    • energy
    • mountain
    • irradiance
  • 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...

    Last updated: February 5, 2020

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • compression-experiments
    • snow
    • x-ray-tomography
    • snow-mechanics
    • microstructure
  • 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...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • rounded-snow
    • weak-layer
    • 3d-print
    • snow
    • depth-hoar
    • new-snow
    • 3d-model
    • snow-cast