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43 datasets found

  • 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

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • wind-packing
    • snowmicropen
    • snow
    • smp
    • wind-crust
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden

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    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • switzerland
    • graubunden
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • snow
    • climate-change
  • Simulated avalanche problem types and seismic avalanche activity around Weissfluhjoch

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: December 14, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • crocus
    • avalanche-problem-type
    • avalanche-danger
    • snow
    • snowpack
    • avalanche-activity
    • avalanche
    • snow-instability
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-cover-modeling
  • 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

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • wind-crust
    • kinect
    • wind-tunnel
    • snow
    • wind-packing
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Dorfberg

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data was collected with a Wingtra Gen II drone and a Sony RX1R II sensor. In total, 10 flights were conducted at different dates, both in summer and winter. A DSM, an...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • uav
    • drone-data
    • snow
    • photogrammetry
    • snow-depth-mapping
    • dsm
    • snow-distribution
    • orthophoto
  • 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

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • snow
    • mountain
    • raclets
    • radar
    • rain
    • precipitation
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

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    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
    • snow
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow-micro-mechanics
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-failure
  • Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • shortwave-radiation
    • photovoltaic
    • snow
    • winter-energy-production
    • albedo
  • 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

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • energy
    • albedo
    • photovoltaic
    • reflection
    • snow
    • mountain
    • irradiance
  • 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
    • observations
    • snow
    • avalanches
    • shapefile
    • alps
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

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    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow-depth
    • snow
    • snow-simulation
    • jim
  • 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
    • depth-hoar
    • rounded-snow
    • weak-layer
    • 3d-model
    • snow
    • 3d-print
    • snow-cast
    • new-snow
  • 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

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • icecube
    • specific-surface-area
    • intercomparison
    • microct
    • 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
    • avalanche-activity
    • snow
    • seismic
    • monitoring
    • hidden-markov-model
  • Fiber Bundle Model for snow failure and concurrent Acoustic Emissions

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    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • fiber-bundle-model
    • snow-avalanche
    • acoustic-emissions
    • snow
    • snow-mechanics
    • sintering
    • snow-failure
    • viscous-deformation
  • 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

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

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • snow
    • gps
    • swe
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • lwc
    • gnss
    • liquid-water-content
  • 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

    • CSV
    • TXT
    • snow
    • snow-height
    • gcos
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-profile
  • 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-models
    • snow-depth
    • snow
    • weissfluhjoch
    • esm-snowmip
  • Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • avalanche
    • snow
    • release