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4 datasets found

  • Automatic detection of avalanches

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduced...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • monitoring
    • snow
    • hidden-markov-model
    • seismic
    • avalanche-activity
  • Snow avalanche data Davos, Switzerland, 1999-2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    These data include all avalanches that were mapped in the region of Davos, Switzerland during the winters 1998-1999 to 2018-2019 (21 years), in total 13,918 avalanches, and the...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

    • CSV
    • PDF
    • danger-level
    • snow-avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • avalanche-size
  • 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
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • snowpack
    • snow
    • avalanche-problem-type
    • crocus
    • weissfluhjoch
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-danger
    • snow-instability
    • avalanche-activity
  • Glide-snow avalanche activity on Dorfberg, Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the processed data of the glide-snow avalanche activity and dynamics on Dorfberg (Davos, Switzerland) covering seasons 2008/09 to 2021/22. This dataset was...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • snowpack-simulation
    • time-lapse-photography
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • avalanche