Snow Avalanche Dynamics
Published April 12, 2024 | Version v1
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Vallée de la Sionne Snow Avalanche n. 20213009: GEODAR radar, Doppler radar and infrasound data

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Austrian Research Centre for Forests
  • 2. ROR icon Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
  • 3. ROR icon Universitat de Barcelona

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon Austrian Research Centre for Forests
  • 2. ROR icon Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
  • 3. ROR icon Universitat de Barcelona

Description

This repository hosts infrasound, GEODAR radar, and Doppler radar data collected within a large powder snow avalanche (No. 20213009) that occurred naturally at the Vallée de la Sionne test site in Switzerland.

These datasets complement and are described in the following publication:

B. Sovilla, E. Marchetti, M. Kyburz, A. Köhler, P. Huguenin, I. Calic, M.J. Kohler, E. Surinach, and C. Pérez-Guillén, under review. "The dominant source mechanism of infrasound generation in powder snow avalanches," submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.

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Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation
High Resolution Radar Imaging of Snow Avalanches 143435
Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
Monitoring, modeling and integration of methods for the control of active processes in mountains PROMONTEC CGL2017-84720-R