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477 datasets found

  • Tree species profiles from Sentinel-2 time series

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Tree species profiles from Sentinel-2 time series We obtained tree species-specific Sentinel-2 time series for the years 2019 and 2020. The Sentinel-2 time series originated from...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • switzerland
    • time-series
    • tree-species
  • European Beech tree-ring dataset 1952-2020

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the raw ring-width and climate data (1952-2020), as well as the R code to run the model and the model output used in the research article "No future growth...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • OCTET
    • TXT
    • beech
    • dendrochronology
    • dendroecology
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • network-analysis
    • tree-ring
  • Quantitative Wood Anatomy and Maximum Latewood Density from Yamal peninsula

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data (Quantitative Wood Anatomy, Maximum Latewood Density, Volumetric Density, holo-cellulose-to-wood-ratio) used in the manuscript "New Prospects for Temperature Reconstructions...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • CSV
    • mxd
    • paleoclimate
    • temperature-reconstruction
    • tree-ring
    • wood-anatomy
  • Pfynwald Geoelectric Experiment 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    This collection of datasets consists of various measurements taken during the year 2022 in Pfynwald. It combines 2 electrical resistivity transects which were monitored in May and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • drone-data
    • drought
    • ert
    • irrigation
    • pinus-sylvestris
  • 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity

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    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • avalanche
    • climate-change
    • climate-projections
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-instability
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • wet-snow-avalanche
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2019

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    Education, culture and sport

    Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2019) In October 2019 we chose 15 sites from the 2019 EVHOE survey for eDNA...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • actinopterygii
    • atlantic-region
    • bayofbiscay
    • chondrichthyes
    • edna
    • fish-composition
    • metabarcoding
    • teleo
  • Monitoring data sets of alpine photovoltaic power-plants

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    Education, culture and sport

    On this repository you can find the monitoring data of the 3 PV power-plants analysed in the article _"Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • alps
    • bifaciality
    • photovoltaic
    • snow
    • winter-electricity
  • Schynige Platte Alpine Botanical Garden land-use experiment

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset was used for the publication "Boch, Blaser, Föhr, Küchler, Fischer (2024) Haymaking complemented by moderate disturbances can sustain and restore species-rich alpine...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • disturbance
    • grassland-management
    • land-use-abandonment
    • vascular-plant
  • Water isotope signatures in Swiss forest ecosystems in 2021 and 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    The isotope composition of different forest water pools was analyzed at 10 sites of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research programme in 2021 and 2022. The sampling was done during...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • PNG
    • forest-ecosystems
    • soil-solution
    • water-budget
    • water-isotopes
    • xylem-water
  • Data interactive avalanche segmentation

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    Education, culture and sport

    Images and corresponding avalanche annotations used for interactive avalanche segmentation: SLF train, vali and test WebNew GroundPic UserPic UIBK dataset: List of images...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • deep-learning
    • interactive
    • segmentation
    • snow
  • CH-Kleinstwasserkraftwerke - ein schweizweiter Datensatz zu Kleinstwasserkraftwerken

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    Education, culture and sport

    In der Schweiz werden Wasserkraftanlagen (WKA) mit einer Leistung von mehr als 300 kW systematisch erfasst und in der nationalen Wasserkraftstatistik (WASTA) zusammengetragen. Die...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • datensatz
    • kleinstwasserkraftwerke
    • schweiz
    • speed2zero
    • wasserkraft
  • Nutrient sustainability in beech forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    With this study, our aim was to estimate the nutrient fluxes relevant for assessing nutrient sustainability as accurately as possible and to calculate nutrient balances for...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • beech
    • mass-balance
    • nutrient
    • soil
    • sustainability
  • Tree species map of Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dominant tree species map of Switzerland We created a tree species map of Switzerland for the dominant tree species in the forested areas. The spatial resolution of the map is 10...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • PNG
    • forest
    • map
    • remote-sensing
    • switzerland
    • tree-species
  • Understanding snow saltation parameterizations - Reproducibility

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the necessary files to reproduce the results presented in Melo et al. (2024):

    • code version used in the simulations (also available at the institutional...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • aerodynamic-entrainment
    • drifting-snow
    • large-eddy-simulation
    • saltation-parameterizations
    • snow-saltation
    • splash
  • Sample plot inventory data form the Parc Naturel du Jorat

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The Jorat is one of the largest continously forested areas in the Swiss Plateau. On a forested area of 778 ha, the Parc Naturel du Jorat (PNJ), a periurban parc, has been...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • PDF
    • beech
    • forest-in
    • forest-reserves
    • swiss-plateau
    • temperate-forests
  • Ring wind tunnel experiments - airborne snow metamorphism and stable water isotopes

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset collection contains all datasets collected during the ring wind tunnel experiments in January and May 2023 at the SLF cold laboratory facilities in Davos. A full...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • blowing-snow
    • cold-lab
    • drifting-snow
    • experiments
    • metamorphism
    • snow-saltation
    • water-isotopes
    • wind-tunnel
  • Repeated detection-nondetection data of corticolous lichens from a standardised monitoring across Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    The available lichen data consists of detection/nondetection data (1/0) of 373 tree-inhabiting (corticolous) lichen species from 416 plots surveyed 1-2 times. The lichen data...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • bayesian-inference
    • biodiversity
    • cryptogams
    • detectability
    • detection-probability
    • inter-observer-difference
    • lichens
    • monitoring
    • observer-error
    • occupancy-model
    • sessile-species
    • swisslichens
  • 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
    • metamorphism
    • microstructure
    • snow
    • time-series
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Fetzer_Khibiny_Treeline_NPcycling

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on soil nutrients and charcteristics, tree and understory biomass, foliage nutrients, mineralogy, soil temperature and moisture along an elevation gradient from boreal forest...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • biomass-dynamics
    • climate-change
    • plant-community
    • plant-traits
    • soil-nutrients
    • treeline-ecosystems
  • Plant species list from 1775 and 2020 for Uetliberg Zürich

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    Education, culture and sport

    The list gives the clearly identifiable plant species from Schinz (1775). Die Reise auf den Uetliberg. Verlag des Waysenhauses, Zürich). Several species given in Schinz (1775) are...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • flora-change
    • occurrence
    • plant-species
    • uetliberg
    • zurich