The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research is concerned with the use, development and protection of natural and urban spaces. The focus of our research is on solving problems to do with the responsible use of landscapes and forests and a prudent approach to natural hazards, especially those common in mountainous countries. WSL occupies a leading position internationally in these research areas. We also provide groundwork for sustainable environmental policies in Switzerland.

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3 datasets found

  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • liquid-water-content
    • gps
    • snow
    • gnss
    • swe
    • lwc
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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: May 30, 2022

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-density
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • weisfluhjoch
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-ice-temperature
  • Seasonal fractional snow-covered area algorithm

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This is the source code for computing the seasonal fractional snow-covered area. It is written in Fortran 90. The code reads snow depth (HS) and snow water equivalent (SWE) data...

    Last updated: July 6, 2023

    • ZIP
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • source-code
    • snow-depth
    • hysteresis
    • subgrid-topography
    • snow-water-equivalent