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396 datasets found

  • European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

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    Education, culture and sport

    The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • depth-of-snowfall
    • water-equivalent-of-the-snow-cover
    • spatial-distribution-of-snow-observations-in-europe
    • harmonisation-of-snow-measurements
    • snow-measurement-methods
    • cost-action-es1404-harmosnow
    • snow-depth
  • Nuclear microsatellite genotypes of the butterfly Melanargia galathea

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    Individual genotypes assessed at six nuclear microsatellite loci (two alleles per locus) for individuals of the butterfly Melanargia galathea (Marbled white) that were collected...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • genetic-structure
    • monitoring
    • melanargia-galathea
    • genetic-diversity
    • conservation-genetics
  • Faktenblätter und Leitfaden fĂĽr Hochwasserschätzmethoden in der Praxis

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    Education, culture and sport

    (English version below) Ziel dieser Faktenblätter ist es Informationen zu den Schätzmethoden, Hinweise zur Parametrisierung und eine grobe Einschätzung der Güte der Resultate in...

    Last updated: December 6, 2023

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    • estimation-methods
    • decision-making
    • engineering
    • flood
    • hydrology
  • CH-POA300 -- Hourly Plane-of-Array Solar Irradiance at High Resolution for Switzerland

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    CH-POA300 is a dataset of hourly solar irradiance maps projected onto tilted surfaces (analogous to monofacial solar panels).

    • Spatial resolution: 300 m
    • Coverage:...

    Last updated: September 10, 2025

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    • alpine-pv
    • plane-of-array
    • rooftop-pv
    • speed2zero
    • agri-pv
    • sweet-edge
    • solar-irradiance
  • Reproducibility dataset for CRYOWRF validation

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    This dataset contains data and scripts for "CRYOWRF - a validation and the effect of blowing snow on the Antarctic SMB" (Gerber et al., submitted).

    • Simulation_setup: Namelists...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

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    • reproducibility
    • antarctica
    • blowing-snow
    • cryowrf
    • surface-mass-balance
  • Spatial factors shape taxonomic and functional beta-diversity in water-filled tree holes in different biogeographical regions

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    These datasets and code support research on the community assemblage of aquatic macroinvertebrates in ephemeral microhabitats, specifically water-filled tree holes (WTH), in three...

    Last updated: July 15, 2025

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    • beta-diversity
    • functional-diversity
    • water-filled-tree-holes
    • metacommunity
    • environmental-factors
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • community-assembly
    • spatial-factors
  • LWF-Tea bag sites

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    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

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    • litter
    • modeling
    • verification
    • carbon
    • roiboos
    • forest
    • tea-bag
    • decomposition
    • green-tea
  • Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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    Education, culture and sport

    The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript (doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822).

    Manuscript...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • sediment-transport
    • mars
    • erosion
    • snow
    • model
  • 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

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    • deep-learning
    • avalanche
    • interactive
    • snow
    • segmentation
  • ATLFISHREF A 12S mitochondrial reference dataset for metabarcoding Atlantic Fishes frequently caught during scientific surveys in the Bay of Biscay

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    The global biodiversity crisis driven by anthropogenic pressures significantly threatens marine ecosystems functioning. The rate of climate change and the impacts of anthropogenic...

    Last updated: December 2, 2024

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    • atlantic-ocean
    • actinopterygii
    • barcoding
    • environmental-dna
    • mitochondrial-dna
    • 12s
    • teleo-primers
  • ERRA -- an R script for Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis

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    ERRA is a data-driven, nonparametric, model-independent method for quantifying rainfall-runoff relationships across a spectrum of time lags, in systems that may be nonlinear,...

    Last updated: May 24, 2025

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    • nonstationarity
    • ecohydrology
    • streamflow
    • precipitation
    • time-series
    • nonlinear-deconvolution
    • rainfall-runoff-modelling
    • hydrology
  • Urban bird capture data with prey species and fungal community

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    Education, culture and sport

    We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano and Zurich. The urban sites were located in an urban forest (Lugano) and in a cemetery (Zurich), and...

    Last updated: April 10, 2025

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    • urban-ecology
    • biodiversity
    • insects
    • fungal-pathogen
    • fungi
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban
    • birds
  • High resolution sea ice surface topography from the SIPEX-2 expedition, East Antarctica, 2012

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises of a post-processed set of terrestrial laser scans (TLS’s) of Antarctic sea ice obtained during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment-2 (SIPEX-2,...

    Last updated: August 20, 2025

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    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • sea-ice
    • tls
    • sea-ice-elevation
    • polar
  • 2013-2020 gas exchange at Pfynwald

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    Education, culture and sport

    Gas exchange was measured on control, irrigated and irrigation-stop trees at the irrigation experiment Pfynwald, during the years 2013, 2014, 2016-2020. The measurement campaigns...

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

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    • acclimation
    • drought
    • gas-exchange
    • fluorescence
    • photosynthesis
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • vpd
  • COSMO-WRF Dataset for Swiss Alps Simulations in Gray-Zone Resolution

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains simulation data for "Influence of Air Flow Features on Alpine Wind Energy Potential" (Kristianti et al., 2024). • The WRF_dia2702 and WRF_dia1103 folders...

    Last updated: April 23, 2024

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    • grayzone
    • wrf
    • numerical-simulation
    • cosmo-wrf
    • complex-terrain
  • Daily data of the volumes, solutes and isotopes in snowpack outflow measured at three locations in the southern Alp catchment

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    This data contain volumes, solutes and isotopes of snowpack outflow measured by a snowmelt lysimeter system at three locations in the southern Alp catchment, situated Central...

    Last updated: August 25, 2021

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    • snowmelt-rate
    • snowpack-outflow
    • snowmelt-lysimeter
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • solutes
  • Survey data on public support for forest restoration in Europe based on evidence from Sweden and Spain

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    This dataset accompanies the article Factors influencing public support for forest restoration in Europe: Evidence from Sweden and Spain, published in the journal Ecosystems and...

    Last updated: September 10, 2025

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    • forest-restoration
    • household-surveys
    • sweden
    • socio-demographic-factors
    • spain
    • public-perceptions
  • Species distribution maps of Fagales and Pinales (GDPlants)

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    This database contains 1957 distribution maps of species from Fagales and Pinales constructed based on a method integrating polygon mapping and SDMs (Lyu et al., 2022). To...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

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    • species-occurrence
    • pinales
    • species-distribution-model
    • fagales
    • species-richness
    • species-range-map
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

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    This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at 4...

    Last updated: December 22, 2021

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    • gps
    • swe
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • lwc
    • gnss
    • snow
    • liquid-water-content
  • Daily data of solute and stable water isotopes in stream water and precipitation in the Alp catchment, Central Switzerland

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    This dataset contain measurements of solute and stable water isotopes in stream water and precipitation in the Alp catchment and two of its tributaries (between 2015 -2018) . The...

    Last updated: August 25, 2021

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    • precipitation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • geochemical-solutes
    • spatially-distributed-sampling
    • stream-water