50 datasets found

  • Snow Drift Station - Micro Rain Radar

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    Education, culture and sport

    The instrument (MRR, Metek) was mounted at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) at a height of 1 m above snow surface (at the beginning of the campaign) with an orientation of 22°...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

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    • raclets
    • mountain
    • snow
    • radar
    • precipitation
    • rain
  • IMIS measuring network

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    The Intercantonal Measurement and Information System (IMIS) consists of nearly 200 automatic measuring stations. They are distributed throughout the Swiss Alps and the Jura region...

    Last updated: June 30, 2023

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    • JSON
    • snow
    • imis
    • automatic-weather-station
    • new-snow
    • measurement
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17....

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

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    • TXT
    • wind-packing
    • kinect
    • wind-crust
    • snow
    • wind-tunnel
  • Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)

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    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
    • snow
    • observations
    • alps
    • shapefile
    • avalanches
  • Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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    Education, culture and sport

    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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    • laboratory-study
    • arctic
    • interface
    • heterogeneous
    • ozone
    • solution
    • chemistry
    • metamorphism
    • reaction
    • alpine
    • antarctica
    • snow
    • brine
  • How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

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    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

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    • stable-boundary-layer
    • atmosphere
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • 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
    • snow
    • avalanche-activity
    • monitoring
    • hidden-markov-model
    • seismic
  • 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...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

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    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • snow
    • snowpack
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-forecast
  • 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,...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

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

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    • alpine3d-simulations
    • climate-change
    • snow
    • graubunden
    • switzerland