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396 datasets found

  • From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions. Book of Abstracts

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Book of abstracts from the virtual conference "From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions"

    Cities and urban regions are among the most dynamic land-use systems in the...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • land-change
    • urban-landscape
    • urban-planning
    • concur
    • landscape-planning
  • Vegetation Height Model NFI

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    Education, culture and sport

    Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on stereo aerial images, acquired by the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. From the...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • vegetation-height-model
    • point-cloud
    • photogrammety
    • 3d
    • forest
  • Anthropogenic change and soil net N mineralization

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Risch Anita C., Zimmermann, Stefan, Moser, Barbara, SchĂĽtz, Martin, Hagedorn,...

    Last updated: August 20, 2020

    • XLS
    • climate
    • nutrient-network
    • grassland
    • herbivore
    • soil
    • fertilization
    • nitrogen
    • nitrification
    • ammonification
    • global-change
    • mineralization
  • Snow on Antarctic Sea Ice - McMurdo Sound 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data of snow and sea ice in the McMurdo Sound, October-December 2022. The data was collected as part of the New Zealand Marsden Fund Research Grant 21-VUW-103 "Can Snow Change the...

    Last updated: April 10, 2025

    • ZIP
    • drone-data
    • snow
    • spatial-variability
    • sea-ice
    • antarctica
    • polar
  • Reproducibility Dataset for CRYOWRF v1.0

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data required for reproducibility of the results to be published in the associated manuscript.

    Apart from reproducibility, the attached datasets also...

    Last updated: July 16, 2021

    • ZIP
    • snow-atmosphere-interaction
    • alps
    • antarctica
    • mesoscale-modelling
    • blowing-snow
  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • snowpack
    • snow-conservation
    • snow
    • snow-farming
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • winter-tourism
  • Dataset on Cosmo-1 based Energy Potential in Swiss Alps

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset consist of simulated hourly power production from an Enercon E82 Turbine at 100 m hub-height. It describes the hourly power output a 1MW turbine would produce in each...

    Last updated: June 2, 2025

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • cosmo-1
    • es2050
    • mountain-wind-potential
    • wind-energy
    • topography
  • A novel approach for bridging the gap between climate change scenarios and avalanche hazard indication mapping

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To assess the possible consequences of potential changes in snow accumulation and temperature and their impact on avalanche hazard, we introduce a comprehensive multi-step...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • hazard
    • ramms
    • avalanche-mapping
    • new-snow
    • avalanche
    • climate-change
  • Resurveyed vegetation releves of beech forests in the Swiss Jura Mountains

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprised 254 historical (1937 – 1948) and resurveyed (2019 – 2022) vegetation relevés of beech-dominated forests sites in the Swiss Jura mountains. The data contains...

    Last updated: February 21, 2024

    • XLS
    • forest
    • air-pollution
    • ground-vegetation
    • climate-change
    • forest-management
    • fagus-sylvatica
  • Latent Heat Flux over Snow

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains three case studies where are compared the latent heat flux calculated using the Eddy Covariance (EC) method, the Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) and...

    Last updated: February 25, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • meteo-station
    • meteo
    • central-asia
    • snow
    • swiss-alps
    • meta
  • Mountain Permafrost Hydrology

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). In earlier reports such as the...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • PDF
    • permafrost-degradation
    • ice-rich-permafrost
    • mass-movements
    • mountain-permafrost-hydrology
    • climate-change-impacts
    • monitoring-techniques
  • Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

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    Education, culture and sport

    Snow and air data was monitored at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) by an infrarot radiometer (Campbell SI-111) for snow temperature (°C), a snow height sensor (Lufft SHM-31)...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • raclets
    • temperature
    • snow-temperature
    • snow
    • snow-height
    • snow-depth
  • Tectonic and climatic controls on plant biodiversity in the Hengduan Mountains China

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes geomorphic predictors and plant biodiversity patterns in the Hengduan Mountains, published in the Geological Society of London special volume: Asian...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • relief
    • tectonic-faults
    • plant-biodiversity
    • climate-history
    • endemism
  • Simulated future discharge and climatological variables for medium-sized catchments in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • discharge
    • snowmelt
    • precipitation
    • soil-moisture
    • hydrology
  • Simulated avalanche problem types and seismic avalanche activity around Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Avalanche problem types were derived from snow cover simulations with the models Crocus and SNOWPACK at the Weissfluhjoch study plot, Davos, CH. The data include annual frequencies...

    Last updated: December 14, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • avalanche-activity
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • avalanche-problem-type
    • weissfluhjoch
    • crocus
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • snowpack
    • avalanche-danger
    • snow-instability
  • Present and future multifaceted plant diversity, uniqueness and conservation in the European Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains extensive data for the European Alps:

    • Observations of ~3,500 plant species
    • Climate (1-km), soil (100-m) and land cover predictors (1km); current...

    Last updated: June 2, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • zonation
    • conservation
    • functional-diversity
    • species-distribution-models
    • plants
    • european-alps
    • beta-diversity
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • land-use-change
    • migclim
    • global-change
    • phylogenetic-diversity
  • Simulation parameters and outputs for a rigorous approach to the specific surface area evolution in snow during temperature gradient metamorphism

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    Education, culture and sport

    In the associated study [1], two time-lapse temperature gradient metamorphism series of three-dimensional micro-computed tomography images of snow (obtained by [2]) have been used...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ODS
    • fem
    • snow
    • time-series
    • metamorphism
    • x-ray-tomography
    • microstructure
  • Predicted cloud droplet numbers Davos Wolfgang

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    Education, culture and sport

    Cloud droplet properties were predicted between February 24 and March 8 2019 for the measurement site Davos Wolfgang (1630 m a.s.l., LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577). Droplet...

    Last updated: December 17, 2020

    • CSV
    • cloud-modeling
    • wolfgangpass
    • cloud-droplets
    • raclets
    • sigma-w
    • supersaturation
  • Illgraben debris-flow characteristics 2023

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • CSV
    • TXT
    • magnitude
    • debris-flow
    • illgraben
    • monitoring-station
    • force-plate
  • Nuclear microsatellite markers for Trichopria drosophilae, parasitoid wasp on Drosophila suzukii

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    Education, culture and sport

    Nuclear microsatellite markers and genotype data for Trichopria ddrosophilae

    This data set comprises (i) the characteristics of a set of 21 species-specific nuclear...

    Last updated: November 24, 2023

    • CSV
    • biological-control
    • trichopria-drosophilae
    • drosophila-suzukii
    • multilocus-genotypes
    • population-genetics
    • nuclear-microsatellite-markers
    • simple-sequence-repeats
    • switzerland