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2 datasets found

  • 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

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    • snow-instability
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • failure-layer
    • snowpack
    • snow-profiles
    • snowpack-simulation
    • rutschblock
  • Field observations of snow instabilities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 589 snow profile observations including a rutschblock test, observations of signs of instability and an assessment of the local avalanche danger level,...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

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    • avalanche-danger
    • danger-level
    • avalanche
    • snow-instability
    • avalanche-forecasting
    • snow