Sierra Nevada Spain Snow Surface Data at the Ski Area 2024

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We collected snow surface data on 2024-04-19 at the Sierra Nevada (Spain) ski area focusing on a groomed ski slope and an adjacent, natural (ungroomed) area. We used a 60-cm long snow roughness board and an iPad with the 3-D Scanner app to create two and three dimensional representations of the surface, respectively. The resolution of the snow roughness board and iPad scanning are about 0.2 mm and 1.5 cm. The roughness board is orange with a black edge. At each location, the snow roughness board were inserted into the snow so that the interface of the snow surface was highlighted by the orange of the roughness board. This interface was photographed and the raw snow roughness board are those images. The iPad scanning covered a 2-m wide swath over a 15-meter length. The data are in ASCII format as relative location (X,Y,Z) and colour (R,G,B).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.989349
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.989349
Provenance
Creator Fassnacht, Steven R ORCID logo; Herrero, Javier ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference University of Granada https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006393 Crossref Funder ID UGR OTRI-6429 SUBLIMA
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 64 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-3.393 LON, 37.072 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2024-04-19T09:56:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-04-19T11:53:00Z