50 datasets found

  • 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
    • python
    • snow
    • numerical-model
    • vapor-transport
  • 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
    • snow-hydrology
    • alpine3d
    • snow-cover
    • snow-distribution
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • snow
    • alpine-precipitation
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

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    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • x-ray-tomography
    • snow-mechanics
    • snow
    • microstructure
    • compression-experiments
  • 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
    • mountain
    • albedo
    • energy
    • snow
    • photovoltaic
    • reflection
    • irradiance
  • 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
    • dynamic-crack-propagation
    • weak-layer
    • whumpf
    • crack-speed
    • propagation-saw-test
    • slab-avalanche
    • snow
  • 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
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • snowpack
    • snow
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • advection
    • stable-water-isotope
    • snow
    • 18o
    • metamorphism
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

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    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

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • intercomparison
    • specific-surface-area
    • microct
    • icecube
    • snow
  • 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
    • ramms
    • hazard-mapping
    • snow
    • release
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • avalanche
  • Manual measuring network

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    Education, culture and sport

    The SLF avalanche warning service operates an extensive network of manual measuring sites. The sites are distributed throughout the Swiss Alps and predominantly situated in...

    Last updated: June 19, 2023

    • JSON
    • CSV
    • new-snow
    • snow-height
    • measurement
    • snow
    • manual-measurements
  • Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

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    Education, culture and sport

    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)...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • snow-height
    • snow-temperature
    • snow
    • temperature
    • snow-depth
    • raclets
  • GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: May 25, 2022

    • TXT
    • CSV
    • snow
    • snow-profile
    • snow-height
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gcos
  • 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
    • wind
    • sand
    • saltation
    • cohesion
    • sediment
    • snow
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • water-cycle
    • snowfall
    • hydrology
    • climate-change-impacts
    • snow
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: December 22, 2021

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • swe
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gnss
    • liquid-water-content
    • lwc
    • gps
  • Dataset for "Dynamic crack propagation in weak snowpack layers: Insights from high-resolution, high-speed photography"

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    Education, culture and sport

    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.:...

    Last updated: June 28, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • snow
    • crack-propagation
    • snow-avalanche
    • experiment
    • snow-mechanics
  • 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

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • stable-boundary-layer
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • atmosphere
  • 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
    • weissfluhjoch
    • esm-snowmip
    • snow
    • snow-models
  • 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

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

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • kinect
    • snow
    • wind-crust
    • wind-packing
    • wind-tunnel