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93 datasets found

  • Restwasser-Datenbank

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    (in English below) Der erweiterte Ausbau der Wasserkraftproduktion steht im Spannungsfeld mit der Sicherstellung ökologischer Funktionen von Fliessgewässern. Die neu entwickelte...

    Last updated: January 27, 2026

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    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • dotierwasser
    • konzessionen
    • restwasser
    • wasserkraft
    • wasserwirtschaft
  • Ice nucleating particle concentrations active at -15 °C at Weissfluhjoch

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains number concentrations of ice-nucleating particles active at -15 °C observed at Weissfluhjoch during February and March 2019, as well as complementary data...

    Last updated: January 26, 2026

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    • XLS
    • aerosol
    • backward-trajectories
    • clouds
    • ice-nucleation
    • raclets
  • Base cation dynamics in an Oriental beech forest

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • calcium
    • fagus-orientalis-lipsky
    • magnesium
    • potassium
  • Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • co2
    • face
    • forest
    • nitrogen
    • picea-abies
    • soil
  • Othmarsingen, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

    • SERVICE
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    • CSV
    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • meteo
    • meteorology
    • par
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Neunkirch, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • meteo
    • meteorology
    • par
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Backward Trajectories

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Backward trajectories were calculated from two positions: Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.85361, LAT: 46.83551) and Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.80646 LAT: 46.83304) for the time period February 2...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • alps
    • atmospheric-dynamics
    • backward-trajectories
    • complex-topopgraphy
    • cosmo
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • raclets
  • RADAR Wind profiler Davos Wolfgang

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    Education, culture and sport

    The RADAR wind profiler from Meteoswiss was installed at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) and measured from 2171 m above sea level to 11079 m, with a temporal...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • raclets
    • radar
    • wind-direction
    • wind-speed
    • wolfgangpass
  • Weather Station Davos Wolfgang

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains weather parameters measured at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577).

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • CSV
    • pressure
    • raclets
    • relative-humidity
    • temperature
    • weather
  • Elk and bison carcasses in Yellowstone, USA

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    Risch, A.C., Frossard, A., Schütz, M., Frey, B., Morris, A.W., Bump, J.K....

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • XLS
    • bacteria
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • carcass
    • carrion
    • decomposition
    • detritus
    • fungi
    • soil-biodiversity
    • wolf
    • yellowstone
  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    Risch, A. C.; Zimmermann, S.; Ochoa-Hueso, R.; Schütz, M.; Frey, B.; Firn, J....

    Last updated: August 13, 2020

    • XLS
    • global
    • grassland
    • mineralization
    • nutrient-network
    • soil
    • soil-biology
    • soil-chemistry
    • worldwide
  • Sensitivity of modeled snow instability

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    Education, culture and sport

    We investigated the sensitivity of modeled snow instability to meteorological input data using SNOWPACK. We therefore used input data from the automatic weather station at the...

    Last updated: October 16, 2020

    • ZIP
    • global-sensitivity-analysis
    • numerical-avalanche-forecasting
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • snow-instability
    • snowpack
  • WFJ_ICE_LAYERS: Multi-instrument data for monitoring deep ice layer formation in an alpine snowpack

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The WFJ_ICE_LAYERS dataset contains multi-instrument snowpack measurements at high temporal resolution, which enable to monitor the formation of deep ice layers due to preferential...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • ice-layers
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-temperature
    • snowmicropen
    • water-front
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • snowpack
  • CCN, hygroscopicity, predicted cloud droplet numbers Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) data: A Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) single-column continuous-flow streamwise thermal gradient chamber (CFSTGC; Roberts and Nenes, 2005)...

    Last updated: December 17, 2020

    • CSV
    • ccn
    • cloud-droplets
    • cloud-modeling
    • dmt-ccn-chamber
    • hygroscopicity
    • raclets
    • sigma-w
    • supersaturation
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Restoring grassland multifunctionality

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    Education, culture and sport

    Please cite this paper together with the citation for the datafile.

    Resch, M. C., Schütz, M., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U., van der Putten, W. H., Zimmermann, S., Risch, A. C....

    Last updated: October 19, 2021

    • XLS
    • bacteria
    • biodiversity
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • fungi
    • grassland
    • mineralization
    • nematodes
    • plants
    • restoration
    • soil-biodiversity
  • Aerosol Data Davos Wolfgang

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    Education, culture and sport

    Aerosol properties were measured between February 8 and March 31 2019 at the measurement site Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577). Optical and aerodynamic particle...

    Last updated: March 6, 2022

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • aerosol
    • drincz
    • ice-nucleation
    • inp
    • particles
    • raclets
  • RoRCC

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "RoRCC" consists of simulation-based results on climate change impacts on Alpine RoR power production; it is based on 21 Swiss RoR power plants, with a total production...

    Last updated: August 11, 2022

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • design-discharge
    • environmental-flow
    • hydropower
    • run-of-river-power-plants
  • Observed and simulated snow profile data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes information on all observed and simulated snow profiles that were used to train and validate the random forest model described in Mayer et al. (2022). The RF...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • failure-layer
    • rutschblock
    • snow-instability
    • snow-profiles
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snowpack
    • snowpack-simulation
  • Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial...

    Last updated: December 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • austin
    • driving-factors
    • land-dynamics
    • planning
    • urban-land-use