26 datasets found

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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

    • ZIP
    • dust
    • hill
    • turbulence
    • snow
    • atmosphere
    • particles
    • deposition
  • Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • danger-level
    • european-alps
    • warning-regions
    • avalanche-forecast
  • Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • hazard-mapping
    • avalanche
    • release
    • ramms
  • Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

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    Education, culture and sport

    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: December 16, 2020

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • albedo
    • irradiance
    • energy
    • snow
    • reflection
    • photovoltaic
    • mountain
  • Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)

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    Education, culture and sport

    Polygons of wet snow avalanches in the Davos area, as documented by the Swiss avalanche warning service. The georeferenced outlines of the avalanches contain both the release as...

    Last updated: December 15, 2021

    • ZIP
    • alps
    • avalanches
    • snow
    • observations
    • shapefile
  • Saltation of cohesive granular materials

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    Education, culture and sport

    The wind-driven saltation of sand and snow shapes dunes and ripples, generates dust emission, and erodes the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. Here, we use a model based on the...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • sand
    • sediment
    • cohesion
    • saltation
    • wind
    • snow
  • Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • wind-packing
    • smp
    • snowmicropen
    • wind-crust
    • snow
  • Automatic detection of avalanches

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    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • hidden-markov-model
    • avalanche-activity
    • monitoring
    • seismic
    • snow
  • Satellite avalanche mapping validation data

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Last updated: September 4, 2023

    • ZIP
    • satellite
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • validation
    • avalanche-hazard-mapping
  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snowpack
    • avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • avalanche-forecast
  • 3D_Snow_Models

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • weak-layer
    • new-snow
    • 3d-print
    • 3d-model
    • snow-cast
    • depth-hoar
    • rounded-snow
    • snow
  • Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset (Model input, snow distribution and validation) for the precipitation scaling paper, which should be cited along with the data set citation.

    This data is useful for...

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • ZIP
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • snow
    • snow-cover
    • snow-distribution
    • snow-hydrology
    • alpine-precipitation
    • alpine3d
  • Stable Water Isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch

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    Education, culture and sport

    Notice: Changes to the dataset are still possible. Please do not use this dataset until the final publication with a DOI. Contact the authors if you have questions about...

    Last updated: February 27, 2023

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • sublimation
    • snow
    • post-depositional-processes
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • natural-tracer
    • weissfluhjoch
    • latent-heat
    • paleoclimate
  • L-Band Radiometry of Alpine Seasonal Snow Cover: 4 Years at the Davos-Laret Remote Sensing Field Laboratory

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: April 29, 2022

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • microwave
    • l-band
    • davos-laret
    • radiometer
  • Crack propagation speeds in weak snowpack layers from three events: PST, whumpf and slab avalanche

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: October 12, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • weak-layer
    • dynamic-crack-propagation
    • crack-speed
    • propagation-saw-test
    • slab-avalanche
    • snow
    • whumpf
  • How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We used five different atmospheric turbulence datasets from four test sites, with these sites showing differences in their topographical characteristics. We chose one typical...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • atmosphere
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • stable-boundary-layer
  • A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This python code uses the Finite Element library FEniCS (via docker) to solve the one dimensional partial differential equations for heat and mass transfer in snow. The results are...

    Last updated: February 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • pattern-formation
    • vapor-transport
    • python
    • numerical-model
    • snow
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • specific-surface-area
    • microct
    • intercomparison
    • snow
    • icecube
  • Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP

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    Education, culture and sport

    This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • snow-depth
    • snow
    • esm-snowmip
    • snow-models
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow-failure
    • snow-micro-mechanics
    • snow
    • snow-avalanche