Franziska Koch¹, Patrick Henkel², Florian Appel³, Lino Schmid⁴, Achille Capelli⁴, Heike Bach³, Matthias Bernhardt¹, Juerg Schweizer⁴ and Wolfram Mauser⁵, (1)BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute for Hydrology and Water Management, Vienna, Austria, (2)ANavS GmbH, Munich, Germany, (3)Vista Remote Sensing GmbH, Munich, Germany, (4)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (5)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Geography, Munich, Germany