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6 datasets found

  • Climatological snow data since 1998, OSHD

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises the climatology on gridded data of snow water equivalent and snow melt runoff spanning 1998-2022, with a spatial resolution of 1 km and daily temporal...

    Last updated: June 13, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • snow-melt
    • snow-cover-fraction
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • operational-snow-hydrological-service
    • snow-climatology
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014

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    Education, culture and sport

    Overview

    The CH2014-Impacts initiative is a concerted national effort to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively, drawing on the scientific resources...

    Last updated: January 19, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ch2011
    • ch2014
    • snow-depth
    • climate-change
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • Multiple realizations of daily snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation projections for mid- and late-century

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains for three variables (snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation) 50 realizations of current and future climate periods for two time...

    Last updated: August 10, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • climate-change-impact
    • cryosphere
    • natural-climate-variability
    • rain-on-snow
    • uncertainty
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • 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
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gnss
    • snow
    • lwc
    • gps
    • liquid-water-content
    • swe
  • SWE2HS model calibration and validation data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data in this repository was used for the calibration and validation of the SWE2HS model in the following publication: Aschauer, J., Michel, A., Jonas, T., & Marty, C. (2023)....

    Last updated: April 28, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • snow-depth
    • snow-density
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • model-validation-data
    • model-calibration-data
  • Photogrammetric snow depth maps from satellite-, airplane-, UAS and terrestrial platforms from the Davos region (Switzerland)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set contains the produced snow depth maps as well as the reference data set (manual and snow pole measurements) from our paper "Intercomparison of photogrammetric...

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • TIFF
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • airplane
    • uas
    • terrestrial
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-depth
    • satellite
    • photogrammetry