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26 datasets found

  • Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • snow-models
    • esm-snowmip
  • 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
    • alpine-precipitation
    • alpine3d
    • snow-hydrology
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • snow-cover
    • snow
    • snow-distribution
  • 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
    • observations
    • alps
    • avalanches
    • snow
  • Multi-resolution CLM5 simulations across Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains Community Land Model 5 (CLM5) simulation output over the spatial extent of Switzerland at different resolutions and based on a range of input datasets. It...

    Last updated: July 16, 2024

    • ZIP
    • land-cover
    • forest-productivity
    • land-use
    • oshd
    • snow
    • clm5
    • evapotranspiration
    • snow-simulation
    • high-resolution
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • wind-packing
    • kinect
    • snow
    • wind-crust
    • 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
    • rain
    • mountain
    • precipitation
    • raclets
    • radar
    • snow
  • 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
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • stable-boundary-layer
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • atmosphere
    • snow
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • stable-water-isotope
    • advection
    • 18o
    • snow
    • metamorphism
  • 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
    • sand
    • snow
    • wind
    • saltation
    • cohesion
    • sediment
  • Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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: June 3, 2024

    • ZIP
    • deposition
    • particles
    • dust
    • snow
    • hill
    • turbulence
    • atmosphere
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • snow-simulation
    • jim
    • snow-depth
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow
  • Monitoring data sets of alpine photovoltaic power-plants

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    Education, culture and sport

    On this repository you can find the monitoring data of the 3 PV power-plants analysed in the article _"Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine...

    Last updated: September 3, 2024

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • alps
    • photovoltaic
    • bifaciality
    • winter-electricity
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • icecube
    • microct
    • intercomparison
    • specific-surface-area
    • snow
  • Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • wind-crust
    • snowmicropen
    • smp
    • snow
  • 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

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • snow
    • warning-regions
    • avalanche-forecast
    • danger-level
    • european-alps
  • 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-mechanics
    • viscous-deformation
    • snow-avalanche
    • fiber-bundle-model
    • snow-failure
    • snow
    • acoustic-emissions
    • sintering
  • 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
    • seismic
    • monitoring
    • avalanche-activity
    • snow
    • hidden-markov-model
  • Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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: July 3, 2024

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • snow
    • albedo
    • reflection
    • photovoltaic
    • energy
    • mountain
    • irradiance
  • 3D_Snow_Models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • rounded-snow
    • weak-layer
    • 3d-print
    • snow
    • depth-hoar
    • new-snow
    • 3d-model
    • snow-cast
  • 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
    • snow
    • python
    • numerical-model
    • vapor-transport