59 datasets found

  • 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...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • warning-regions
    • european-alps
    • avalanche-forecast
    • danger-level
    • snow
  • 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,...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

    • PDF
    • CSV
    • avalanche-danger
    • snow-instability
    • danger-level
    • avalanche-forecasting
    • snow
    • avalanche
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

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    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....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • kinect
    • wind-packing
    • wind-crust
    • wind-tunnel
    • snow
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

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    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 is...

    Last updated: May 20, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • snowfall
    • hydrology
    • snow
    • climate-change-impacts
    • water-cycle
  • A high-resolution snow and hydrometeorological dataset for the Dischma region in Switzerland

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    This repository contains data from the alpine Dischma watershed and its surroundings in eastern Switzerland and includes: (a) hourly hydrometeorological data with 100m spatial...

    Last updated: August 22, 2025

    • ZIP
    • inarch
    • modelling
    • hydrology
    • cryosphere
    • dischma
    • snow
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

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    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...

    Last updated: August 22, 2025

    • SHP
    • snow
    • natural-hazard
    • avalanche
    • hazard-mapping
    • satellite
  • A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS

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    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 are...

    Last updated: February 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • python
    • numerical-model
    • vapor-transport
    • pattern-formation
    • snow
  • Simulation parameters and outputs for towards a physically and microstructure-based equation for the evolution of the specific surface area in snow

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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 ambient...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ODS
    • fem
    • snow
    • numerical-simulations
    • microstructure
    • metamorphism
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

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    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 described...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snow-simulation
    • jules-investigation-model
    • jim
    • snow
    • snow-depth
  • Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

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    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 upper...

    Last updated: July 17, 2020

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • arctic
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • snow
    • antarctica
    • ice
  • Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

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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...

    Last updated: June 3, 2024

    • ZIP
    • turbulence
    • deposition
    • particles
    • atmosphere
    • hill
    • dust
    • snow
  • GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

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    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,...

    Last updated: November 29, 2019

    • CSV
    • PDF
    • liquid-water-content
    • snow-depth
    • gps
    • snow-cover
    • snow
  • 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...

    Last updated: April 9, 2025

    • OCTET
    • PNG
    • XLS
    • imis
    • grassland
    • snowmelt
    • climate
    • alpine
    • long-term
    • monitoring
    • snow
    • ultrasonic
    • phenology
  • 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...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • stable-boundary-layer
    • snow
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • atmosphere
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
  • 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...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanches
    • snow
    • observations
    • alps
    • shapefile
  • On the compressive strength of weak snow layers of depth hoar

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    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...

    Last updated: May 19, 2025

    • CSV
    • strength
    • snow-mechanics
    • microstructure
    • depth-hoar
    • slab-avalanche
    • snow
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

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    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 affect...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow
    • 18o
    • metamorphism
    • advection
    • stable-water-isotope
  • Satellite avalanche mapping validation data

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    Validation points, validation area, ground truth coverage, SPOT 6 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-1 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-2 avalanche outlines, Davos avalanche mapping...

    Last updated: July 31, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-hazard-mapping
    • snow
    • validation
    • satellite
  • 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 the...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • saltation
    • sediment
    • sand
    • cohesion
    • snow
    • wind
  • 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...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • latent-heat
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow
    • natural-tracer
    • post-depositional-processes
    • paleoclimate
    • sublimation
    • stable-water-isotopes