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4 datasets found

  • Data for the publication Optical determination of snow density via sub-surface scattering

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains the data necessary to reproduce Fig. 5 of the publication: L. Mewes, H. Löwe, M. Schneebeli & B. Walter, *Optical determination of snow density via...

    Last updated: January 19, 2026

    • ZIP
    • laboratory-study
    • reflection
    • snow-density
    • snow-microstructure
    • snow-profile
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snowimager
  • 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity for seven sites in the Swiss Alps as well as the downscaled climate scenarios and SNOWPACK...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • avalanche
    • climate-change
    • climate-projections
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-instability
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • wet-snow-avalanche
  • WFJ_ICE_LAYERS: Multi-instrument data for monitoring deep ice layer formation in an alpine snowpack

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    Education, culture and sport

    The WFJ_ICE_LAYERS dataset contains multi-instrument snowpack measurements at high temporal resolution, which enable to monitor the formation of deep ice layers due to preferential...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • ice-layers
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-temperature
    • snowmicropen
    • water-front
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland. Typical snow profile measurements and observations are included (temperature, density, grain size,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-density
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • weisfluhjoch