Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL

Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

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This data set includes 57 years of hydrometeorological measurements from small (first-order) catchments in the pre-alpine valley Alptal. Here we provide daily mean values; values...

Blue-Green Biodiversity Beavers affecting Ecosystems

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This is the metadata collected in the Blue-Green Biodiversity Beavers project running from 2021 till 2025 about how beavers affect the biodiversity and ecosystem. See the linked...

Source code for a preferential snowfall deposition model

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This is the source code for modeling preferential snowfall deposition and snowfall downscaling as described in: Helbig N., Mott R., Bühler Y., Le Toumelin L., Lehning M. (2024)...

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

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High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high...

The Habitat Map of Switzerland v1_2 2025

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Lebensraumkarte der Schweiz v1.2 2025/La carte des milieux naturels de Suisse v1.2 2025 The FOEN funded project ‘The Habitat Map of Switzerland:continual improvement’ conducted at...

Canopy air temperatures in subalpine forests during three snow seasons

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This dataset forms the base of the paper 'Contrasting canopy air temperatures across complex terrain during the snow season' submitted to JGR Atmospheres. It aims to ensure full...

Literature based approach to estimate future snow

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Base data which were used for the methodology projecting future regional snow depths based on temperature scenarios. This study was supported by Seilbahnen Schweiz, Schweiz...

Base cation dynamics in an Oriental beech forest

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Throughfall, litterflow and soil solution were sampled during one whole year under five Oriental beech trees in a mixed Hyrcanian beech forest. The amounts of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ and...

Snow Depth Mapping

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The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 2m generated from image matching of ADS 80/100 data. Image acquisition took place at peak of winter (time...

Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript (doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822).

Manuscript...

Hydro-meteorological simulations for the period 1981-2018 for Switzerland

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The dataset provides simulated 1) precipitation, 2) discharge, 3) soil moisture, and 4) low-flow simulations for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland for the period...

Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)

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Data obtained in the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment at Hofstetten, NW Switzerland, between 2009 and 2016. This dataset contains analyses of the soil solution throughout...

Simulated future discharge and climatological variables for medium-sized catchments in Switzerland

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Daily discharge and the related hydro-meteorological variables precipitation, snowmelt, and soil moisture are provided for current (1981-2017) and for future climate conditions...

Automatic Classification of Avalanches

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This dataset contains the classification and localization results obtained during the automatic classification of avalanches during the winter season 2017.

Data Broedlin CNP

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Mircocosm experiment to identify the individual patterns and controls of C, N, and P mobilization in soils under beech forests. Organic and mineral horizons sampled along a...

History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1850

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Naturally, large parts of the Swiss Plateau are characterised by wetlands and meandering rivers. That this is no longer the case today is the result of centuries of efforts to...

Schänis, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1998 onwards

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High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises...

Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for Forest Accessibility and Wood Harvesting at FOSS4G2019

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This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Europe...

GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

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This data set includes GPS-derived snow water equivalent (SWE), snow depth (HS) and liquid water content (LWC) data for three entire snow-covered seasons (2015-2016, 2016-2017,...

Othmarsingen, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises...