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5 datasets found

  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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

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    • wind-packing
    • smp
    • snowmicropen
    • wind-crust
    • snow
  • 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

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    • antarctica
    • snow
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • ice
    • arctic
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • microstructure
    • compression-experiments
    • x-ray-tomography
    • snow-mechanics
    • snow
  • 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

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