59 datasets found

  • Carabid beetles in forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types.

    Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract...

    Last updated: February 12, 2025

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    • running-beetles
    • carabidae
    • trapping
    • insects
    • coleoptera
    • arthropoda
    • forest
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

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    Stable water isotopes (δ18O) obtained from snow and ice samples of polar regions are used to reconstruct past climate variability, but heat and mass transport processes can affect...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • snow
    • 18o
    • metamorphism
    • advection
    • stable-water-isotope
  • ALS-based snow depth and canopy height maps from flights in 2017 (Grisons, CH and Grand Mesa, CO)

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    This dataset includes snow depth, canopy height and terrain elevation maps of forest stands in the Grisons (CH) and at Grand Mesa (CO,USA) derived from airborne lidar. Data were...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

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    • snow-distribution
    • airborne-laser-scanning
    • snow-depth
    • canopy-height
    • forest-structure
  • lsUDPS Large-scale urban development projects in European urban regions

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    Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "lsUDPs" ; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set lsUDPs; 3. The data set lsUDPs: 3.1 Selection of cases and...

    Last updated: March 15, 2022

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    • land-use-change
    • urban-transformations
    • spatial-planning
    • land-use-transformations
    • strategic-projects
    • large-scale-urban-development-projects
    • strategic-spatial-planning
    • europe
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Dataset of manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland. Typical snow profile measurements and observations are included (temperature, density, grain size,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • weisfluhjoch
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-density
  • GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

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    This dataset contains long-term snow water equivalent and corresponding snow depth data 11 observer sites in Switzerland between 1200 and 2500 m a.s.l. compiled for the Global...

    Last updated: March 31, 2025

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    • CSV
    • snow
    • snow-profile
    • snow-height
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gcos
  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

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    Two data sets obtained for snow farming projects (Fluela, Davos, CH and Martell, IT) in 2015.

    The data set contains for each site:

    • 10 cm GIS raster of snow depth calculated...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • snowpack
    • snow-conservation
    • snow
    • snow-farming
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • winter-tourism
  • Illgraben debris-flow characteristics 2023

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    List of key debris flow variables from the WSL Illgraben monitoring station (2023) such as occurrence date and time, peak flow depth, peak flow velocity, total volume and bulk...

    Last updated: March 11, 2025

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    • TXT
    • magnitude
    • debris-flow
    • illgraben
    • monitoring-station
    • force-plate
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

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    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

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    • ZIP
    • snowpack
    • catchment-data
    • snow-hydrology
    • rain-on-snow
    • meteorological-data
  • A grain-size driven transition in the deformation mechanism in slow snow compression

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    We conducted consecutive loading-relaxation experiments at low strain rates to study the viscoplastic behavior of the intact ice matrix in snow. The experiments were conducted...

    Last updated: October 10, 2023

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    • ZIP
    • ice
    • slow-snow-compression-experiments
    • snow-mechanics
    • microstructure
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Swiss electricity system modeling -- HV grid - hydropower topology and inflows - renewable productions - past and forecast meteorological data

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    This dataset contains several useful components for Swiss Electricity system modeling:

    1. High-voltage Swiss grid: 2019 snapshot of the high-voltage (>150kV) grid composed...

    Last updated: September 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • meteorological-data
    • forecast-models
    • electricity-grid
    • solar-irradiance
    • reservoir-inflow
    • hydropower
    • renewable-energy
  • Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

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    Total water reserves of the snow cover [mio m3] for Wägital catchment, Switzerland, for reference date April 1. Data is separated in 2 elevation zones 900m-1500m asl and...

    Last updated: April 30, 2025

    • TXT
    • gcos
    • meteodat-gmbh
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • wagital
  • Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples

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    For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

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    • spherical-model-snow
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • unconfined-compression-experiments
    • snow-mechanics
    • microstructure
    • 3d-ct-images
  • Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset

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    The Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset includes values for 65 biological and ecological traits and 25 bioclimatic variables for all 1816 bryophytes included in the European...

    Last updated: March 3, 2023

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    • XLS
    • red-list
    • mosses
    • iucn
    • hornworts
    • liverworts
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • indicator-values
    • life-history-traits
  • Daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen and Independence Creeks, Sierra Nevada, USA

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    Hydrometerological and ecohydrological time series from Sagehen Creek and Independence Creek, Sierra Nevada, USA, illustrating hydrological responses to daily cycles in snowmelt...

    Last updated: June 16, 2020

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    • PDF
    • ecohydrology
    • diel-cycle
    • evapotranspiration
    • diurnal-cycle
    • snowmelt
    • sap-flow
    • streamflow
    • groundwater
  • Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses

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    Dataset supporting the paper "Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses", published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The dataset refers to...

    Last updated: July 18, 2025

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    • CSV
    • XLS
    • TXT
    • soil-biodiversity
    • ecosystem-functioning
    • herbivory
    • grassland
    • invasive-species
  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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    To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

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    • snowpack
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow-stability-evaluation
  • 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity

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    This data set includes 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity for seven sites in the Swiss Alps as well as the downscaled climate scenarios and SNOWPACK...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-instability
    • wet-snow-avalanche
    • climate-projections
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • climate-change
    • avalanche
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

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    When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

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    • microstructure
    • compression-experiments
    • snow
    • snow-mechanics
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Capillary rise rise experiments in snow using neutron radiography

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    This dataset consists of data related to capillary rise experiments performed with neutron radiography. There are 4 videos of capillary rise experiments as well as the files used...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • pore-water
    • snow
    • measurements
    • soil
    • water
    • transport