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50 datasets found

  • 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
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • atmosphere
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • stable-boundary-layer
  • Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

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    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
    • turbulence
    • particles
    • deposition
    • hill
    • snow
    • atmosphere
    • dust
  • 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

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    • ZIP
    • snow-models
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • weissfluhjoch
    • esm-snowmip
  • 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

    • ZIP
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    • SERVICE
    • snow
    • paleoclimate
    • sublimation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • post-depositional-processes
    • weissfluhjoch
    • natural-tracer
    • latent-heat
  • Literature data of sound speed in snow

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains literature data for snow density and frequency dependency of speed of sound waves in snow. The data were either available as tabular data in the original...

    Last updated: January 22, 2021

    • CSV
    • literature
    • wave-speed
    • frequency
    • sound-speed
    • density
    • 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

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    • SERVICE
    • snowfall
    • climate-change-impacts
    • hydrology
    • snow
    • water-cycle
  • 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
    • snow
    • metamorphism
    • advection
    • 18o
    • stable-water-isotope
  • Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • mars
    • sediment-transport
    • model
    • snow
    • erosion
  • 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
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • snow
    • release
    • hazard-mapping
    • ramms
    • avalanche
  • 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
    • snow
    • climate-change
    • switzerland
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • graubunden
  • Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

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    Education, culture and sport

    Laboratory experiments are presented on the phase change at the surface of sodium chloride – water mixtures at temperatures between 259 K and 240 K. High selectivity to the upper...

    Last updated: July 17, 2020

    • TXT
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • ice
    • snow
    • arctic
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • antarctica
  • 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

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    • dsm
    • uav
    • orthophoto
    • snow-distribution
    • photogrammetry
    • drone-data
    • snow
    • snow-depth-mapping
  • 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
    • shapefile
    • avalanches
    • observations
    • alps
    • snow
  • 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

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • jim
    • snow-simulation
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • jules-investigation-model
  • 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

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • microstructure
    • x-ray-tomography
    • snow-mechanics
    • compression-experiments
    • 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
    • validation
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-hazard-mapping
    • satellite
  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

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    Education, culture and sport

    Two data sets obtained for snow farming projects (Fluela, Davos, CH and Martell, IT) in 2015.

    The data set contains for each site:

    • 10 cm GIS raster of snow depth calculated...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • snow-farming
    • snow-conservation
    • snowpack
    • snow
    • winter-tourism
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
  • 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

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • wind-crust
    • snow
    • kinect
    • wind-packing
    • wind-tunnel
  • Snow Drift Station - Micro Rain Radar

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • radar
    • precipitation
    • rain
    • mountain
    • snow
    • raclets
  • Kinetic experiments on the oxidation of bromide by ozone from 289-245 K.

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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