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13 datasets found

  • SWE2HS model calibration and validation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data in this repository was used for the calibration and validation of the SWE2HS model in the following publication: Aschauer, J., Michel, A., Jonas, T., & Marty, C. (2023)....

    Last updated: April 28, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • model-calibration-data
    • snow-depth
    • snow-density
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • model-validation-data
  • Wind tunnel measurement data of drifting snow and turbulent wind fluctuations

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data correspond to the experiments presented and discussed in a paper regarding the interaction between turbulent wind fluctuations and snow saltation mass-fluxes (Paterna,...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • vertical-wind-motion
    • saltation
    • boundary-layer-winds
    • snow-depth
    • snow-cover
  • Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland at 2090 m a.s.l.

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information The Stillberg ecological treeline research site is located in the transition zone between the relatively humid climate of the Northern Alps and the...

    Last updated: September 29, 2023

    • ZIP
    • snow-depth
    • shortwave-radiation
    • wind-direction
    • soil-temperature
    • air-temperature
    • precipitation-sum
    • dew-point-temperature
    • treeline
    • air-pressure
    • relative-humidity
    • wind-speed
    • stillberg
  • European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

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    Education, culture and sport

    The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists...

    Last updated: June 19, 2021

    • PDF
    • XLS
    • HTML
    • snow-measurement-methods
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • snow-depth
    • harmonisation-of-snow-measurements
    • cost-action-es1404-harmosnow
    • spatial-distribution-of-snow-observations-in-europe
    • water-equivalent-of-the-snow-cover
  • Snow Depth Mapping

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    Education, culture and sport

    The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 2m generated from image matching of ADS 80/100 data. Image acquisition took place at peak of winter (time...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TIFF
    • PDF
    • image-matching
    • aerial-imagery
    • snow-hydrology
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • avalanche
    • snow-depth
    • dsm
  • ALS-based snow depth and canopy height maps from flights in 2017 (Grisons, CH and Grand Mesa, CO)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes snow depth, canopy height and terrain elevation maps of forest stands in the Grisons (CH) and at Grand Mesa (CO,USA) derived from airborne lidar. Data were...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-depth
    • forest-structure
    • airborne-laser-scanning
    • canopy-height
    • snow-distribution
  • Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

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    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
    • raclets
    • snow-temperature
    • snow-height
    • temperature
    • snow-depth
  • GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes GPS-derived snow water equivalent (SWE), snow depth (HS) and liquid water content (LWC) data for three entire snow-covered seasons (2015-2016, 2016-2017,...

    Last updated: November 29, 2019

    • CSV
    • PDF
    • liquid-water-content
    • snow-depth
    • snow-cover
    • gps
    • snow
  • UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH

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    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

    • SERVICE
    • TIFF
    • swe
    • remote-sensing
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • uas
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

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    Education, culture and sport

    These data were used to drive and evaluate Jules Investigation Model (JIM) snow simulations. The data provided are the forcing data used for the "deterministic" runs as described...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • jim
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow-simulation
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014

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    Education, culture and sport

    Overview

    The CH2014-Impacts initiative is a concerted national effort to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively, drawing on the scientific resources...

    Last updated: January 19, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • climate-change
    • ch2011
    • ch2014
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-depth
  • WFJ_MOD: Meteorological and snowpack measurements from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of meteorological and snowpack measurements from the automatic weather station at Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, suitable for driving snowpack models. The dataset...

    Last updated: September 13, 2023

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • wind-speed
    • humidity
    • snow-depth
    • air-temperature
    • longwave-radiation
    • shortwave-radiation
    • wind-direction
    • precipitation-amount
    • snow-ice-temperature
  • Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP

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    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
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-models
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • esm-snowmip