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Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)
Education, culture and sport
This data set includes 57 years of hydrometeorological measurements from small (first-order) catchments in the pre-alpine valley Alptal. Here we provide daily mean values; value...
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Canopy air temperatures in subalpine forests during three snow seasons
Education, culture and sport
This dataset forms the base of the paper 'Contrasting canopy air temperatures across complex terrain during the snow season' submitted to JGR Atmospheres. It aims to ensure full...
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Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow...
Education, culture and sport
The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript ([doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822](http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071822)). Manuscript Abstract...
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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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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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Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data
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-3...
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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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Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK
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 abov...
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Simulated avalanche problem types and seismic avalanche activity around Weissfluhjoch
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 frequenc...
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Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a...
Education, culture and sport
This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at...
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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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Modeling snow failure with DEM
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.
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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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3D_Snow_Models
Education, culture and sport
The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types ar...
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IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize
Education, culture and sport
The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created duri...
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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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Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos
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...
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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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Multi-resolution CLM5 simulations across Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains Community Land Model 5 (CLM5) simulation output over the spatial extent of Switzerland at different resolutions and based on a range of input datasets. It ...
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UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH
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 c...
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Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)
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 dis...
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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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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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Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP
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 ...
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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...