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477 datasets found

  • Induced Rockfall Dataset (Small Rock Experimental Campaign), Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of an experimental campaign of induced rockfall in Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland.

    The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophoto...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • dem
    • deposition-points
    • induced-rockfall
    • natural-hazards
    • rockfall
    • rockfall-experiments
    • rockfall-runout
    • sensor-stream
    • stonenode
    • stonenodedata
  • LWF-Tea bag sites

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    Education, culture and sport

    Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for the transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in the decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • CSV
    • carbon
    • decomposition
    • forest
    • green-tea
    • litter
    • modeling
    • roiboos
    • tea-bag
    • verification
  • Ecosystem coupling and multifunctionality - exclosure experiment

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Risch AC, Ochoa-Hueso R, van der Putten WH, Bump JK, Busse MD, Frey B,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • XLS
    • ecosystem-coupling
    • ecosystem-functions
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • exclusion
    • grassland
    • grazing
    • invertebrates
    • subalpine
    • swiss-national-park
    • vertebrates
  • Soil respiration - exclosure experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Location of data collection The Swiss National Park (SNP) is located in the southeastern part of Switzerland, and covers an area of 170 km2, 50 km2 of which is forested, 33 km2 is...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • XLS
    • grassland
    • grazing
    • soil-respiration
    • subalpine
    • ungulates
  • Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the data used in the publication by Techel et al., 2018 Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts - a case study in the European Alps (Nat Haz...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • avalanche-forecast
    • danger-level
    • european-alps
    • snow
    • warning-regions
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

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    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological parameter...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • XLS
    • dischma
    • dischmex
    • meteo-station
    • meteorological-data
    • meteorological-measurements
  • DISCHMEX - High-resolution WRF simulations in complex alpine terrain and station measurements

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data presented here corresponds to the publication "Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO-WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • complex-terrain
    • cosmo-wrf
    • orographic-precipitation
    • precipitation-variability
    • snow-precipitation
  • Rockfall gallery testing Parde 2016

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    Education, culture and sport

    Five full-scale field tests were conducted with concrete blocks weighting between 800 and 3200 kg being dropped onto the roof of a gallery structure made from reinforced concrete....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • experiment
    • experiments
    • field-data
    • field-test
    • field-tests
    • impact-testing
    • mass-movements
    • natural-hazard
    • rockfall
    • rockfall-experiments
  • Automatic detection of avalanches

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduced...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche-activity
    • hidden-markov-model
    • monitoring
    • seismic
    • 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
    • snow
    • snow-conservation
    • snow-farming
    • snowpack
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • winter-tourism
  • Dataset for OGRS 2018 publication

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the road and plot data used for the geospatial analysis example showcased in "Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal", a...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • buffer
    • density
    • geospatial
    • gis
    • jupyter
    • roads
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees and...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • XLS
    • TXT
    • forest
    • fractional-snow
    • longwave-radiation
    • shading
    • shortwave-radiation
  • Fiber Bundle Model for snow failure and concurrent Acoustic Emissions

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains modeled and experimental results for laboratory snow failure experiments and the concurrent acoustic emissions signatures for different loading rates. For...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • acoustic-emissions
    • fiber-bundle-model
    • sintering
    • snow
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-failure
    • snow-mechanics
    • viscous-deformation
  • From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions. Book of Abstracts

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    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
    • concur
    • land-change
    • landscape-planning
    • urban-landscape
    • urban-planning
  • Replication files for "Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics"

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    Education, culture and sport

    Introduction

    The ZIP file contains all data and code to replicate the analyses reported in the following paper.

    Reber, U., Fischer, M., Ingold, K., Kienast, F., Hersperger, A....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • bgb
    • biodiversity
    • environmental--policy
    • policy-analysis
    • policy-documents
    • switzerland
    • text-corpus
  • Sentinel-2 imagery of Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We processed Sentinel-2 images from 2017 to 2023 for Switzerland with the Software FORCE (Frantz 2019). The respective parameter files can be found here:...

    Last updated: February 20, 2025

    • TIFF
    • OCTET
    • force
    • raster-processing
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • switzerland
  • Sentinel-2 time series of Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We processed Sentinel-2 image time series from 2017 to 2023 for Switzerland with the Software FORCE (Frantz 2019) on the basis of [Sentinel-2...

    Last updated: February 19, 2025

    • TIFF
    • OCTET
    • force
    • raster-processing
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • switzerland
    • time-series
  • 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
    • central-asia
    • meta
    • meteo
    • meteo-station
    • snow
    • swiss-alps
  • snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian–Eulerian two-phase solver for modelling convection of water vapor in snowpacks

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam is a two-phase solver implemented to model convection of water vapor with phase change in snowpacks. This new solver is based on the standard solver of...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • convection-in-snow
    • numerical-simulation
    • openfoam
    • snow-density-profile
    • vapor-transport
  • 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
    • climate-change-impacts
    • ice-rich-permafrost
    • mass-movements
    • monitoring-techniques
    • mountain-permafrost-hydrology
    • permafrost-degradation