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GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
Snowprofile from 11 observer sites in Switzerland compiled for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Height of snow (cm) and snow water equivalent (mm) are recorded every ...
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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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Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, start...
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 1500m-2...
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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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Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp
Education, culture and sport
Overview We present GROUNDEYE, a new model of radiative transfer over mountainous terrain, which considers for the first time the forward scattering properties of snow. Embedde...
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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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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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Dataset for "Dynamic crack propagation in weak snowpack layers: Insights from...
Education, culture and sport
This data set includes material and results described in the related research article: Bergfeld, B., van Herwijnen, A., Reuter, B., Bobillier, G., Dual, J., and Schweizer, J.: ...
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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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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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Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data
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...
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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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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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Crack propagation speeds in weak snowpack layers from three events: PST, whum...
Education, culture and sport
For the release of a slab avalanche, crack propagation within a weak snowpack layer below a cohesive snow slab is required. As crack speed measurements can give insight into the...
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Snow Drift Station - Micro Rain Radar
Education, culture and sport
The instrument (MRR, Metek) was mounted at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) at a height of 1 m above snow surface (at the beginning of the campaign) with an orientation of ...
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IMIS measuring network
Education, culture and sport
The Intercantonal Measurement and Information System (IMIS) consists of nearly 200 automatic measuring stations. They are distributed throughout the Swiss Alps and the Jura regi...
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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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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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Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from labor...
Education, culture and sport
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 an...
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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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Automatic detection of avalanches
Education, culture and sport
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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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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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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Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden
Education, culture and sport
This is the simulation dataset from _"Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland"_, M. Bavay, T. Grünewald, M. Lehning,...
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