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40 datasets found

  • Snow Drift Station - Micro Rain Radar

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The instrument (MRR, Metek) was mounted at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) at a height of 1 m above snow surface (at the beginning of the campaign) with an orientation of 22°...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • rain
    • mountain
    • radar
    • raclets
    • snow
    • precipitation
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

    Last updated: May 20, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • hydrology
    • snowfall
    • snow
    • climate-change-impacts
    • water-cycle
  • Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Polygons of wet snow avalanches in the Davos area, as documented by the Swiss avalanche warning service. The georeferenced outlines of the avalanches contain both the release as...

    Last updated: December 15, 2021

    • ZIP
    • avalanches
    • shapefile
    • alps
    • snow
    • observations
  • Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the output and reference data published in the paper "Automated snow avalanche release area delineation - validation of existing algorithms and proposition of...

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • hazard-mapping
    • release
    • snow
    • ramms
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Dorfberg

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data was collected with a Wingtra Gen II drone and a Sony RX1R II sensor. In total, 10 flights were conducted at different dates, both in summer and winter. A DSM, an...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • uav
    • snow-distribution
    • dsm
    • photogrammetry
    • snow-depth-mapping
    • snow
    • orthophoto
    • drone-data
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Stable water isotopes (δ18O) obtained from snow and ice samples of polar regions are used to reconstruct past climate variability, but heat and mass transport processes can affect...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • advection
    • snow
    • metamorphism
    • stable-water-isotope
    • 18o
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

    Last updated: April 20, 2023

    • SHP
    • natural-hazard
    • snow
    • satellite
    • hazard-mapping
    • avalanche
  • Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset (Model input, snow distribution and validation) for the precipitation scaling paper, which should be cited along with the data set citation.

    This data is useful for...

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • ZIP
    • snow-hydrology
    • alpine3d
    • snow-cover
    • alpine-precipitation
    • snow-distribution
    • snow
    • alpine3d-simulations
  • Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and...

    Last updated: July 16, 2020

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • snow
    • chemistry
    • arctic
    • alpine
    • heterogeneous
    • solution
    • ozone
    • brine
    • interface
    • antarctica
    • metamorphism
    • laboratory-study
    • reaction
  • 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
    • lwc
    • snow
    • liquid-water-content
    • gnss
    • swe
    • gps
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Preferential deposition of snow and dust over complex terrain is responsible for a wide range of environmental processes, and accounts for a significant source of uncertainty in...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

    • ZIP
    • dust
    • particles
    • snow
    • deposition
    • turbulence
    • atmosphere
    • hill
  • A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This python code uses the Finite Element library FEniCS (via docker) to solve the one dimensional partial differential equations for heat and mass transfer in snow. The results are...

    Last updated: February 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • pattern-formation
    • vapor-transport
    • python
    • numerical-model
    • snow
  • Fiber Bundle Model for snow failure and concurrent Acoustic Emissions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains modeled and experimental results for laboratory snow failure experiments and the concurrent acoustic emissions signatures for different loading rates. For...

    Last updated: July 22, 2020

    • ZIP
    • sintering
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-mechanics
    • acoustic-emissions
    • snow
    • snow-failure
    • viscous-deformation
    • fiber-bundle-model
  • 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
    • avalanche-problem-type
    • snow
    • crocus
    • snow-instability
    • avalanche
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • weissfluhjoch
  • GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Snowprofile from 11 observer sites in Switzerland compiled for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Height of snow (cm) and snow water equivalent (mm) are recorded every 2...

    Last updated: May 25, 2022

    • CSV
    • TXT
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gcos
    • snow-height
    • snow-profile
    • snow
  • Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the SnowMicroPen (SMP) data from 38 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winters 2015/16...

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snowmicropen
    • smp
    • snow
    • wind-packing
    • wind-crust
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 16 January 2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 6'041 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 16 January 2019. The dataset was acquired following a period with very high avalanche danger....

    Last updated: May 12, 2023

    • SHP
    • avalanche
    • satellite
    • hazard-mapping
    • natural-hazard
    • snow
  • Satellite avalanche mapping validation data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Validation points, validation area, ground truth coverage, SPOT 6 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-1 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-2 avalanche outlines, Davos avalanche mapping...

    Last updated: September 4, 2023

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • avalanche-hazard-mapping
    • satellite
    • avalanche
    • validation
  • Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 54 years of hydrometeorological measurements from small (first-order) catchments in the pre-alpine valley Alptal. Here we provide daily mean values; values...

    Last updated: March 3, 2023

    • XLS
    • meteorological-data
    • snow
    • runoff
    • first-order-catchment
    • alptal
    • subalpine
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This is the simulation dataset from "Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland", M. Bavay, T. Grünewald, M. Lehning,...

    Last updated: November 12, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • snow
    • graubunden
    • climate-change
    • switzerland
    • alpine3d-simulations