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37 datasets found

  • 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

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • wind-packing
    • wind-crust
    • snow
    • snowmicropen
    • smp
  • 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
  • lsUDPS Large-scale urban development projects in European urban regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "lsUDPs" ; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set lsUDPs; 3. The data set lsUDPs: 3.1 Selection of cases and...

    Last updated: March 15, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • large-scale-urban-development-projects
    • strategic-spatial-planning
    • urban-transformations
    • spatial-planning
    • strategic-projects
    • europe
    • land-use-transformations
    • land-use-change
  • 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

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    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
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees and...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • XLS
    • TXT
    • forest
    • longwave-radiation
    • shading
    • shortwave-radiation
    • fractional-snow
  • 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
  • Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered...

    Last updated: December 16, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • spherical-model-snow
    • microstructure
    • 3d-ct-images
    • unconfined-compression-experiments
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow-mechanics
  • Expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, 2016/2017

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the data acquired during the expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station in December 2016 and January 2017. The dataset consits of meterorological...

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • mass-flux
    • snowmicropen
    • meteorological-data
    • antarctica
    • drifting-snow
  • Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps (1969/1970 - 2014/2015)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    During the last 45 years, about 100 people lost their lives in avalanches in the European Alps each year. Avalanche fatalities in settlements and on transportation corridors have...

    Last updated: November 3, 2020

    • TXT
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • long-term-trends
    • avalanche-statistics
    • avalanche-accident
    • avalanche-fatalities
  • 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
  • eemma.R, an R script for Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The R script eemma.R, which implements Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis (EEMMA) to estimate source fractions in mixtures, exploiting information contained in time-series...

    Last updated: June 12, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • PDF
    • tracers
    • stable-isotopes
    • emma
    • mixing-models
    • eemma
    • end-member-mixing-analysis
  • ASRB_DAV: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) in Davos Dorf

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    Education, culture and sport

    Incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave 2 min radiation measurements in Davos Dorf, CH.

    References

    1. Marty, C., Philipona, R., Frohlich, C., Ohmura, A.. Altitude...

    Last updated: September 4, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • TXT
    • longwave-radiation
    • outgoing
    • shortwave-radiation
    • incoming
    • davos
  • Daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen and Independence Creeks, Sierra Nevada, USA

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Hydrometerological and ecohydrological time series from Sagehen Creek and Independence Creek, Sierra Nevada, USA, illustrating hydrological responses to daily cycles in snowmelt...

    Last updated: June 16, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • PDF
    • snowmelt
    • ecohydrology
    • diel-cycle
    • groundwater
    • diurnal-cycle
    • streamflow
    • evapotranspiration
    • sap-flow
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • ecology
    • biodiversity
    • dispersal
    • traits
    • reef-fish
  • WFJ_ICE_LAYERS: Multi-instrument data for monitoring deep ice layer formation in an alpine snowpack

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The WFJ_ICE_LAYERS dataset contains multi-instrument snowpack measurements at high temporal resolution, which enable to monitor the formation of deep ice layers due to preferential...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • water-front
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snowmicropen
    • ice-layers
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-temperature
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

    Last updated: March 24, 2022

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • catchment-data
    • rain-on-snow
    • snow-hydrology
    • snowpack
    • meteorological-data