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50 datasets found

  • Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 54 years of hydrometeorological measurements from small (first-order) catchments in the pre-alpine valley Alptal. Here we provide daily mean values; values...

    Last updated: March 3, 2023

    • XLS
    • first-order-catchment
    • snow
    • meteorological-data
    • subalpine
    • runoff
    • alptal
  • Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • albedo
    • snow
    • photovoltaic
    • winter-energy-production
  • Automatic detection of avalanches

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • seismic
    • monitoring
    • hidden-markov-model
    • snow
  • Fiber Bundle Model for snow failure and concurrent Acoustic Emissions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • snow-avalanche
    • acoustic-emissions
    • sintering
    • viscous-deformation
    • snow-failure
    • snow
    • fiber-bundle-model
    • snow-mechanics
  • UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH

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    Education, culture and sport

    This snow depth map was generated 14 January 2015, close to peak of winter accumulation, applying Unmanned Aerial System digital surface models with a spatial resolution of 10 cm....

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • TIFF
    • swe
    • remote-sensing
    • uas
    • snow
    • snow-depth
  • Saltation of cohesive granular materials

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • sediment
    • wind
    • cohesion
    • sand
    • saltation
    • snow
  • Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • snow-temperature
    • raclets
    • temperature
    • snow-depth
    • snow-height
  • Dataset for "Dynamic crack propagation in weak snowpack layers: Insights from high-resolution, high-speed photography"

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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-mechanics
    • crack-propagation
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • experiment
  • 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

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow
    • warning-regions
    • danger-level
    • european-alps
  • Manual measuring network

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • CSV
    • JSON
    • snow
    • snow-height
    • measurement
    • manual-measurements
    • new-snow