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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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Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain
Education, culture and sport
This is a technical documentation of the procedure to run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over complex alpine terrain using Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling ...
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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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Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years
Education, culture and sport
In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial p...
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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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Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant...
Education, culture and sport
This dataset comprises a large array of ecological data for the European Alps: (1) Current soil and climate predictors at various resolutions. (2) GBIF observations of the ...
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Data: Environmental drivers of eukaryotic plankton and fish biodiversity in...
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains the raw environmental DNA data associated with the publication *Environmental drivers of eukaryotic plankton and fish biodiversity in an Arctic fjord* in t...
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Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical...
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O...
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Terrestrial laser scans on Hammarryggen Ice Rise, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica
Education, culture and sport
Surface topography maps (spatial extent: 400 m x 400 m) obtained at approximately 300 m from the top of the Hammarryggen Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, using a...
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Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland at 2090 m a.s.l.
Education, culture and sport
Background information The Stillberg ecological treeline research site is located in the transition zone between the relatively humid climate of the Northern Alps and the conti...
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A grain-size driven transition in the deformation mechanism in slow snow compression
Education, culture and sport
We conducted consecutive loading-relaxation experiments at low strain rates to study the viscoplastic behavior of the intact ice matrix in snow. The experiments were conducted u...
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Soil property maps for the Swiss forest
Education, culture and sport
We used 2071 forest soil profiles to model a wide range of soil properties for the forested area of Switzerland. The spatial prediction is based on the principle of «digital soi...
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snowBedFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian-Lagrangian solver for modelling snow transport
Education, culture and sport
snowBedFoam 1.0. is a snow transport solver implemented in the computational fluid dynamics software OpenFOAM. It is adapted from the standard multi-phase flow solver DPMFoam fo...
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Data on multi-year drought impacts on European beech in northern Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
This study investigated multi-year drought impacts on beech forests through a unique large-scale monitoring of 963 individual beech trees, which showed either premature leaf dis...
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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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Root-traits
Education, culture and sport
Fine-root traits of Scots pine in response to enhanced soil water availability deriving from long-term irrigation in the Pfynwald Data_Fig.1.xlsx Fine-root biomass of the topso...
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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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FSM2trans code
Education, culture and sport
This dataset includes the FORTRAN code of the FSM2trans model version used in the paper: Quéno et al., Snow redistribution in an intermediate-complexity snow hydrology modelling...
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Profile measurements of snow transport and micrometeorology at Mizuho...
Education, culture and sport
This data was collected at Mizuho Station (44.315°E, 70.71°S, 2230 m a.s.l.), East Antarctica, from **30 September to 22 November 2000** during the 41st Japanese Antarctic resea...
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AFF agricultural land change scenarios in Europe 2015-2050
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains the spatial layers showing future land change pathways in Europe between 2015 and 2050, as simulated by the CLUMondo model and according to the Agricultura...
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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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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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Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014
Education, culture and sport
In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly c...
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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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DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements
Education, culture and sport
Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological paramete...