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4 datasets found

  • Snow avalanche data Davos, Switzerland, 1999-2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    These data include all avalanches that were mapped in the region of Davos, Switzerland during the winters 1998-1999 to 2018-2019 (21 years), in total 13,918 avalanches, and the...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

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    • snow-avalanche
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • danger-level
    • avalanche-size
    • avalanche-activity
  • Data set on snow instability

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    These data on snow instability include three data subsets that were analyzed and the results published by Reuter and Schweizer (2018) who suggest a novel framework on how to...

    Last updated: February 2, 2020

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    • propgatoin-saw-test
    • crack-propagation
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • snow-avalanche
    • rutschblock
    • failure-initiation
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • slab-tensile-support
    • slab
    • weak-layer
  • 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

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    • snow
    • acoustic-emissions
    • snow-failure
    • snow-avalanche
    • sintering
    • snow-mechanics
    • fiber-bundle-model
    • viscous-deformation
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
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    • snow
    • snow-micro-mechanics
    • snow-failure
    • snow-avalanche
    • discrete-element-modelling