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3 datasets found

  • 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
    • snowpack
    • global-sensitivity-analysis
    • numerical-avalanche-forecasting
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • snow-instability
  • 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
    • snow-hydrology
    • meteorological-data
    • catchment-data
    • snowpack
    • rain-on-snow
  • 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
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • avalanche
    • snow
    • snowpack