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4 datasets found

  • Drifting and blowing snow distribution around structures for Alpine PV applications

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset groups numerical simulation outputs and validation measurement data produced in the context of the following [publication]: not published yet The snow transport...

    Last updated: March 26, 2025

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    • alpine
    • photovoltaic
    • preferential-deposition
    • renewable-energy
    • snow-transport
  • IMIS Phenology Data Since 1998

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

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    • OCTET
    • PNG
    • alpine
    • climate
    • grassland
    • imis
    • long-term
    • monitoring
    • phenology
    • snow
    • snowmelt
    • ultrasonic
  • Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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    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 and...

    Last updated: July 17, 2025

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    • SERVICE
    • alpine
    • antarctica
    • arctic
    • brine
    • chemistry
    • heterogeneous
    • interface
    • laboratory-study
    • metamorphism
    • ozone
    • reaction
    • snow
    • solution
  • Soil measurements of Seewer Berg and Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains measured values of soil liquid water content, matric potential, and soil texture of 40 soil samples in Davos, Switzerland. The measurements were used for...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • alpine
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • lwc
    • matric-potential
    • measurements
    • soil
    • soil-classification
    • soil-texture