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Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

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Laboratory experiments are presented on the phase change at the surface of sodium chloride – water mixtures at temperatures between 259 K and 240 K. High selectivity to the upper...

SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 16 January 2019

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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....

Kinetic experiments on the oxidation of bromide by ozone from 289-245 K.

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The reaction of ozone with bromide in polar regions results in the formation of reactive bromide species with impacts on ozone budget and the oxidative capacity of the lower...

Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

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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)...

Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

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When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

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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...

SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

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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...

Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

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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...

Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

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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...

Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript (doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822).

Manuscript...

GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

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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,...

A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS

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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...

Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

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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...

Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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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...

Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

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This dataset contains the data used in the publication by Techel et al., 2018 Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts - a case study in the European Alps (Nat Haz...

Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

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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...

How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

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

Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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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...

Saltation of cohesive granular materials

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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...

Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)

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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...