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Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)
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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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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 atm...
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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-3...
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Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a...
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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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Simulated avalanche problem types and seismic avalanche activity around Weissfluhjoch
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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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Modeling snow failure with DEM
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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
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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 th...
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3D_Snow_Models
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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
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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
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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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Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and...
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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...
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Multi-resolution CLM5 simulations across Switzerland
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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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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 al...
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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 dis...
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Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)
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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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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 ...
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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...
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Automatic detection of avalanches
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This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduc...
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Fiber Bundle Model for snow failure and concurrent Acoustic Emissions
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This dataset contains modeled and experimental results for laboratory snow failure experiments and the concurrent acoustic emissions signatures for different loading rates. For ...
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Latent Heat Flux over Snow
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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...
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Stable Water Isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch
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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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Simulation parameters and outputs for towards a physically and...
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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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21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity
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This data set includes 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity for seven sites in the Swiss Alps as well as the downscaled climate scenarios and SNOWPAC...
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Simulation parameters and outputs for a rigorous approach to the specific...
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In the associated study [1], two time-lapse temperature gradient metamorphism series of three-dimensional micro-computed tomography images of snow (obtained by [2]) have been us...
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IMIS Phenology Data Since 1998
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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...