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Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015
Education, culture and sport
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 ...
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Field observations of snow instabilities
Education, culture and sport
This data set includes 589 snow profile observations including a rutschblock test, observations of signs of instability and an assessment of the local avalanche danger level, ma...
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Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data
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....
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Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate
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...
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A high-resolution snow and hydrometeorological dataset for the Dischma...
Education, culture and sport
This repository contains data from the alpine Dischma watershed and its surroundings in eastern Switzerland and includes: (a) hourly hydrometeorological data with 100m spatial r...
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SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018
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 (...
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A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS
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 ...
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Simulation parameters and outputs for towards a physically and...
Education, culture and sport
In the associated study [1], evolution of randomly generated bi-continuous microstructures that resemble real snow microstructures has been investigated. The control of the ambi...
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Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)
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 describe...
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Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in...
Education, culture and sport
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 uppe...
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Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and...
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...
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GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data
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, ...
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IMIS Phenology Data Since 1998
Education, culture and sport
Long-term phenological data in alpine regions are often limited to a few locations and thus, little is known about climate-change induced plant phenological shifts above the tre...
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How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?
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 al...
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Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)
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...
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On the compressive strength of weak snow layers of depth hoar
Education, culture and sport
This repository hosts the experimental data accompanying our publication, “On the compressive strength of weak snow layers of depth hoar,” featured in the Journal of Glaciology....
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Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection
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 affe...
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Satellite avalanche mapping validation data
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 (DAva...
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Saltation of cohesive granular materials
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 th...
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Stable Water Isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch
Education, culture and sport
Notice: Changes to the dataset are still possible. Please do not use this dataset until the final publication with a DOI. Contact the authors if you have questions about this. ...
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Kinetic experiments on the oxidation of bromide by ozone from 289-245 K.
Education, culture and sport
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 atm...
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GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains long-term snow water equivalent and corresponding snow depth data 11 observer sites in Switzerland between 1200 and 2500 m a.s.l. compiled for the Global C...
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Snow on Antarctic Sea Ice - McMurdo Sound 2022
Education, culture and sport
Data of snow and sea ice in the McMurdo Sound, October-December 2022. The data was collected as part of the New Zealand Marsden Fund Research Grant 21-VUW-103 "Can Snow Change t...
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Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015
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...
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Latent Heat Flux over Snow
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains three case studies where are compared the latent heat flux calculated using the Eddy Covariance (EC) method, the Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) and...