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Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate
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... -
GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland
This dataset contains long-term snow water equivalent and corresponding snow depth data 11 observer sites in Switzerland between 1200 and 2500 m a.s.l. compiled for the Global... -
TopoCLIM v1.0 code
Model code and documentation for the downscaling model TopoCLIM which provides methods to downscale climate timeseries from CORDEX RCM data. This scheme specifically addresses... -
Assessing the impacts of climate change on snow avalanche-induced risk in...
By using hazard scenarios based on CH2018 climate projections and the RAMMS avalanche model, we generated large-scale hazard indication maps for future avalanche hazards. By... -
A novel approach for bridging the gap between climate change scenarios and...
To assess the possible consequences of potential changes in snow accumulation and temperature and their impact on avalanche hazard, we introduce a comprehensive multi-step... -
Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava
We performed an experimental trilogy of induced rockfall experiments in a spruce stand in Surava (CH) within (i) the original forest, (ii) after a logging job, resulting in... -
Deadwood Generator
The here presented code generates discrete three-dimensional, RAMMS::ROCKFALL readable deadwood log files (.pts-format) of windtrown forests, including the pilling effect due to... -
Evaluating the predictive performance of human avalanche forecasts and model...
This data set was used in the analysis by Techel et al. Can model-based avalanche forecasts match the discriminatory skill of human danger level forecasts? A comparison from... -
Induced Rockfall Dataset #2 (Chant Sura Experimental Campaign), Flüelapass,...
The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophoto as well as the deposition points of manually induced rockfall by releasing differently... -
Changes in climatology, snow cover and ground temperatures at high alpine...
This dataset includes all data and simulation files presented in the publication: Bender et al. 2020. Changes in climatology, snow cover and ground temperatures at high alpine... -
Weather, snowpack and danger ratings data for automated avalanche danger...
Each set includes the meteorological variables (resampled 24-hour averages) and the profile variables extracted from the simulated profiles for each of the weather stations of... -
Avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1970/71
When using this data, please consider and adhere to the associated Terms of Use. Consider the newest version with the highest version number. This data collection contains... -
Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1936/37
When using this data, please consider and adhere to the associated Terms of Use. Consider the newest version with the highest version number. This data collection contains... -
Fiber Bundle Model for snow failure and concurrent Acoustic Emissions
This dataset contains modeled and experimental results for laboratory snow failure experiments and the concurrent acoustic emissions signatures for different loading rates. For... -
Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015
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 from... -
Automatic detection of avalanches
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... -
Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015
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... -
Induced Rockfall Dataset (Small Rock Experimental Campaign), Tschamut,...
Dataset of an experimental campaign of induced rockfall in Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland. The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophoto... -
Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)
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... -
Wind tunnel measurement data of drifting snow and turbulent wind fluctuations
The data correspond to the experiments presented and discussed in a paper regarding the interaction between turbulent wind fluctuations and snow saltation mass-fluxes (Paterna,...