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3 datasets found

  • Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • alpine-precipitation
    • alpine3d
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • snow
    • snow-cover
    • snow-distribution
    • snow-hydrology
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

    Last updated: September 10, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • catchment-data
    • meteorological-data
    • rain-on-snow
    • snow-hydrology
    • snowpack
  • FSM2trans snowpack simulations with HICAR input

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    DESCRIPTION The dataset is used to run snowpack simulations with various forcing data at different resolutions with the Flexible Snow Model (FSM2oshd). A dynamical downscaling...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • dischma
    • fsm2
    • fsm2trans
    • hicar
    • snow-hydrology
    • snowpack