Environmental Data: Observed and simulated snow profile data

Description

This data set includes information on all observed and simulated snow profiles that were used to train and validate the random forest model described in M...

Citation

Mayer, S., van Herwijnen, A., Techel, F., Schweizer, J. (2022). Observed and simulated snow profile data. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.351.

Resources

• DAV data set: Properties of observed snow profiles and simulated failure layers

  For each profile pair from the DAV data set, this file contains one row with information on the observed snow stability and all extracted features describing the simulated failure layers. The content of the columns is explained in Table 1 of the ReadMe file. Only those profile pairs which fulfilled predefined similarity criteria (column "similarity_obs_sim" = 1) and which belonged to the stability classes "stable" and "unstable" (column "stability_class" = 0 or 1) were used to train the RF model. Please note that for each of the two snow profiles with RB score 7 (profile IDs 7228 and 9526), three additional layers were included in this data set to obtain a balanced set of training data (73 unstable and 73 stable profiles).

  DAV data set: Properties of observed snow profiles and simulated failure layers

• SWISS data set: Properties of observed snow profiles and simulated failure layers

  For each profile pair from the SWISS data set, this file contains one row with information on the observed snow stability and all extracted features describing the simulated failure layers. Please note that only those profile pairs which fulfilled the similarity criteria (column similarity_obs_sim = 1, 121 profiles) were used to validate the RF model. The content of the columns is explained in Table 1 of the ReadMe file.

  SWISS data set: Properties of observed snow profiles and simulated failure layers

• Observed snow profiles

  Observed snow stratigraphy in form of one *.csv-file per snow profile from the DAV and SWISS data sets (in respective subfolders). Each file is named after the profile ID which allows identifying the corresponding simulated profile in the "simulated_profiles" folder. One row corresponds to one observed snow layer. The content of the columns is described in Table 2 of the ReadMe file.

  Observed snow profiles

• Simulated snow profiles

  Simulated snow stratigraphy in form of one *.csv-file per snow profile from the DAV and SWISS data sets (in respective subfolders). Each file is named after the profile ID which allows identifying the corresponding observed profile in the "observed_profiles" folder. One row corresponds to one simulated snow layer. The content of the columns 1-7 is described in Table 3 of the ReadMe file. The remaining columns (8-31) contain all features that were used in the development of the RF model and are described in Table 1 of the ReadMe file.

  Simulated snow profiles

• ReadMe

  ReadMe file explaining data structure and content

  ReadMe