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40 datasets found

  • 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
    • stable-water-isotope
    • snow
    • 18o
    • metamorphism
  • 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
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • snow-conservation
    • snow
    • snow-farming
    • winter-tourism
    • snowpack
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17....

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • wind-packing
    • kinect
    • wind-tunnel
    • snow
    • wind-crust
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • snow-micro-mechanics
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-failure
    • snow
    • discrete-element-modelling
  • Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Total water reserves of the snow cover [mio m3] for Wägital catchment, Switzerland, for reference date April 1. Data is separated in 2 elevation zones 900m-1500m asl and...

    Last updated: April 19, 2023

    • TXT
    • gcos
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • wagital
    • snow
    • meteodat-gmbh
  • Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Snow and air data was monitored at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) by an infrarot radiometer (Campbell SI-111) for snow temperature (°C), a snow height sensor (Lufft SHM-31)...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • snow-height
    • snow-temperature
    • temperature
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • raclets
  • How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We used five different atmospheric turbulence datasets from four test sites, with these sites showing differences in their topographical characteristics. We chose one typical...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • stable-boundary-layer
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • atmosphere
    • snow
  • 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
    • climate-change
    • snow
    • graubunden
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • switzerland
  • 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
    • acoustic-emissions
    • fiber-bundle-model
    • snow
    • snow-failure
    • sintering
    • viscous-deformation
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-mechanics
  • 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

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snow
    • snowpack
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow-stability-evaluation
  • 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
    • mountain
    • snow
    • precipitation
    • raclets
    • radar
    • rain
  • 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
  • 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
    • alpine-precipitation
    • alpine3d
    • snow
    • snow-cover
    • snow-hydrology
    • snow-distribution
    • alpine3d-simulations
  • UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This snow depth map was generated 14 January 2015, close to peak of winter accumulation, applying Unmanned Aerial System digital surface models with a spatial resolution of 10 cm....

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • swe
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • uas
    • remote-sensing
  • Saltation of cohesive granular materials

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The wind-driven saltation of sand and snow shapes dunes and ripples, generates dust emission, and erodes the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. Here, we use a model based on the...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • wind
    • cohesion
    • saltation
    • sediment
    • snow
    • sand
  • Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Overview The SUNWELL Modelling Environment is a combination of data and code that models electricity production from satellite-derived irradiance data and other spatial data sets...

    Last updated: December 16, 2020

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • albedo
    • photovoltaic
    • snow
    • reflection
    • irradiance
    • mountain
    • energy
  • 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
    • avalanche
    • satellite
    • snow
    • avalanche-hazard-mapping
    • validation
  • 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
    • turbulence
    • atmosphere
    • particles
    • snow
    • deposition
    • dust
    • hill
  • Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • esm-snowmip
    • snow-models
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-depth
    • snow
  • 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
    • ramms
    • snow
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • avalanche
    • release
    • hazard-mapping