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6 datasets found

  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • avalanche-forecast
    • avalanche
    • snowpack
    • snow
  • Observed and simulated snow profile data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes information on all observed and simulated snow profiles that were used to train and validate the random forest model described in Mayer et al. (2022). The RF...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • snow-profiles
    • snow-instability
    • snowpack-simulation
    • rutschblock
    • failure-layer
    • snowpack
    • snow-stratigraphy
  • Sensitivity of modeled snow instability

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We investigated the sensitivity of modeled snow instability to meteorological input data using SNOWPACK. We therefore used input data from the automatic weather station at the...

    Last updated: October 16, 2020

    • ZIP
    • snow-instability
    • snowpack
    • numerical-avalanche-forecasting
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • global-sensitivity-analysis
  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Two data sets obtained for snow farming projects (Fluela, Davos, CH and Martell, IT) in 2015.

    The data set contains for each site:

    • 10 cm GIS raster of snow depth calculated...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • snow-conservation
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • snow-farming
    • winter-tourism
    • snowpack
    • snow
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

    Last updated: March 24, 2022

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • catchment-data
    • snowpack
    • meteorological-data
    • snow-hydrology
    • rain-on-snow
  • Simulated avalanche problem types and seismic avalanche activity around Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Avalanche problem types were derived from snow cover simulations with the models Crocus and SNOWPACK at the Weissfluhjoch study plot, Davos, CH. The data include annual frequencies...

    Last updated: December 14, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • snowpack
    • avalanche-activity
    • avalanche-danger
    • snow-instability
    • avalanche-problem-type
    • crocus
    • avalanche
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • snow