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40 datasets found

  • 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

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    • erosion
    • model
    • snow
    • mars
    • sediment-transport
  • Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and...

    Last updated: July 16, 2020

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    • interface
    • reaction
    • snow
    • metamorphism
    • antarctica
    • heterogeneous
    • brine
    • solution
    • laboratory-study
    • chemistry
    • arctic
    • alpine
    • ozone
  • 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

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    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • gps
    • snow
    • liquid-water-content
    • lwc
    • gnss
    • swe
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • 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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    • climate-change-impacts
    • water-cycle
    • snow
    • snowfall
    • hydrology
  • GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes GPS-derived snow water equivalent (SWE), snow depth (HS) and liquid water content (LWC) data for three entire snow-covered seasons (2015-2016, 2016-2017,...

    Last updated: November 29, 2019

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    • PDF
    • snow-cover
    • gps
    • snow-depth
    • snow
    • liquid-water-content
  • 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

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    • CSV
    • danger-level
    • snow-instability
    • avalanche-danger
    • avalanche
    • snow
    • avalanche-forecasting
  • 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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    • photogrammetry
    • orthophoto
    • uav
    • drone-data
    • snow
    • snow-depth-mapping
    • snow-distribution
    • dsm
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

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    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

    Last updated: April 20, 2023

    • SHP
    • snow
    • natural-hazard
    • avalanche
    • hazard-mapping
    • satellite
  • Kinetic experiments on the oxidation of bromide by ozone from 289-245 K.

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    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
    • polar
    • laboratory-study
    • arctic
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • snow
    • cryosphere
    • antartic
  • 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
    • snow
    • observations
    • alps
    • avalanches
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 16 January 2019

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    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 6'041 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 16 January 2019. The dataset was acquired following a period with very high avalanche danger....

    Last updated: May 12, 2023

    • SHP
    • hazard-mapping
    • avalanche
    • snow
    • satellite
    • natural-hazard
  • Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

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    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
    • european-alps
    • avalanche-forecast
    • warning-regions
    • danger-level
  • 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
    • monitoring
    • snow
    • hidden-markov-model
    • seismic
    • avalanche-activity
  • A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS

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    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
    • snow
    • python
    • numerical-model
    • pattern-formation
    • vapor-transport
  • 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

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    • SERVICE
    • compression-experiments
    • snow
    • microstructure
    • snow-mechanics
    • x-ray-tomography
  • 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
    • snow-depth
    • snow
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow-simulation
    • jim
  • 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-height
    • snow
    • gcos
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-profile
  • Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

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    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
    • runoff
    • alptal
    • snow
    • first-order-catchment
    • subalpine
    • meteorological-data
  • 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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    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • ice
    • antarctica
    • arctic
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • snow
  • 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
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • wind-packing
    • wind-crust
    • snow
    • snowmicropen
    • smp