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451 datasets found

  • Lens, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
    • meteorology
    • par
    • wind-speed
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • climate-change
    • temperature
  • EnviDat Supports Open Science

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    Education, culture and sport

    The article "EnviDat Supports Open Science" originally appeared in WSLintern No. 3 (2020), page 14-15 and it is republished here with permission from the WSLintern editorial team....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • envidat
    • wsl
    • juypter-notebooks
    • research-data-management
    • open-science
  • Relationship between physical forest characteristics, visual attractiveness and perception of ecosystem services in urban forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    This questionnaire survey was conducted as an online survey and aimed at investigating the relationship between physical forest characteristics, visual attractiveness of forest and...

    Last updated: June 10, 2022

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    • nfi-photos
    • perception-of-ecosystem-services
    • adults-and-teenagers
    • visual-attractiveness
    • online-questionnaire-survey
  • Hydro-meteorological simulations for the period 1981-2018 for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset provides simulated 1) precipitation, 2) discharge, 3) soil moisture, and 4) low-flow simulations for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland for the period...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • ZIP
    • precipitation
    • hydrological-simulations
    • low-flow
    • drought-2018
    • soil-moisture
    • discharge
    • prevah
  • Number of natural hazard fatalities per year in Switzerland since 1946

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    This dataset contains the number of fatalities due to flood, debris flow, landslide, rockfall, windstorm, lightning, ice avalanche, earthquake and other processes like roof...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • landslide-fatalities
    • windstorm-fatalities
    • natural-hazard-fatalities
    • ice-avalanche-fatalities
    • debris-flow-fatalities
    • earthquake-fatalities
    • flood-fatalities
    • lightning-fatalities
    • rockfall-fatalities
  • Soil respiration - exclosure experiment

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    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

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    • ungulates
    • grassland
    • soil-respiration
    • grazing
    • subalpine
  • Causal effect of LUP

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    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Does zoning contain built-up land expansion? Causal evidence from Zhangzhou City, China.

    Research objective: Built-up land zoning is an imporatant policy measure of land...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

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    • land-use-change
    • annual-effect
    • plan-evaluation
    • psm-did
    • land-use-planning
  • High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Static input data (topography, landuse and soiltype) for the WRF preprocessing system WPS is provided for Switzerland and its neighboring countries between 45-49 N and 4-12 E. The...

    Last updated: July 16, 2021

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    • ZIP
    • landuse
    • wrf
    • cosmo-wrf
    • cryowrf
    • topography
    • static-data
  • LABES 2 Indicators of the Swiss Landscape Monitoring Program

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    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss Landscape Monitoring Program (LABES) records both the physical and the perceived quality of the landscape with about 30 indicators. The surveys of the physical aspects...

    Last updated: July 8, 2025

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    • landscape-ecology
    • ecosystem-services
    • european-landscape-convention
    • landscape-perception
    • landscape
  • Glide-snow avalanche activity on Dorfberg, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the processed data of the glide-snow avalanche activity and dynamics on Dorfberg (Davos, Switzerland) covering seasons 2008/09 to 2021/22. This dataset was...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

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    • avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • snowpack-simulation
    • time-lapse-photography
  • CALISHTO campaign dataset for the publication On the Drivers of Ice Nucleating Particle Diurnal Variability in Eastern Mediterranean Clouds

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains all observational data sets during CALISHTO campaign used for the paper: Gao, K., Vogel, F., Foskinis, R., Vratolis, S., Gini, M. I., Granakis, K.,...

    Last updated: May 20, 2025

    • XLS
    • biological-particles
    • dust-particles
    • fluorescent-particles
    • aerosol-cloud-interactions
    • ice-nucleation
    • diurnal-variability
  • Sequential Wind-Doppler LiDAR wind profile measurements on the Gotthard pass in Switzerland - Summer 2023

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data include wind speeds, wind directions, turbulence, temperature, pressure and humidity data of 10 LiDAR locations along a transect in the Gotthard wind park taken in during...

    Last updated: July 17, 2025

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    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • remote-sensing
    • wind-energy
    • lidar
    • wind
    • atmospheric-dynamics
  • Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains four years of daily measurements of the natural isotopic composition (2H, 18O) of precipitation and stream water at the Alp catchment (area 47 km2) in Central...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

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    • SERVICE
    • alptal
    • stable-water-isotope
    • hydrology
    • precipitation
    • stream-water
    • catchment
  • Beatenberg, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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: January 16, 2020

    • SERVICE
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    • climate-change
    • wind-speed
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • par
    • meteorology
    • temperature
  • Assessing the impacts of climate change on snow avalanche-induced risk in alpine regions

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    Education, culture and sport

    By using hazard scenarios based on CH2018 climate projections and the RAMMS avalanche model, we generated large-scale hazard indication maps for future avalanche hazards. By...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • risk
    • avalanche
    • climada
    • ramms
    • snow-avalanche
    • climate-change
  • 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

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    • weather
    • relative-humidity
    • raclets
    • pressure
    • temperature
  • Daten Bryolich-Projekt Moose und Flechten in GĂ€rten

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Im Rahmen des Bryolich-Projekts “Moose und Flechten in GĂ€rten” wurden möglichst vollstĂ€ndige Artenlisten von Moosen und Flechten in 26 bzw. 7 GĂ€rten um WohnhĂ€user erstellt. In 5...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • bryolich
    • moose
    • bryophytes
    • diversitat
    • lichens
    • flechten
    • garten
  • Energy Cooperatives in Switzerland: Survey Results // Energiegenossenschaften in der Schweiz: Befragungsergebnisse

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Topic of Survey The data at hand on energy cooperatives in Switzerland were collected in 2016 as part of the project "Collective financing of renewable energy projects in...

    Last updated: March 1, 2023

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    • energy-cooperatives
    • community-energy
    • cooperatives
    • renewable-energy
    • switzerland
  • Pfynwald 2019 - Dendrochronological and tree-ring isotope dataset

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data from a 17-year-long irrigation experiment (Pfynwald, Switzerland) in a naturally dry forest dominated by 100-year-old pine trees (Pinus sylvestris). This dataset includes...

    Last updated: March 5, 2024

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    • SERVICE
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • tree-ring-cellulose
    • pfynwald
    • dendrochronology
    • isotopes
    • tree-rings
    • scots-pine
  • Drifting and blowing snow distribution around structures for Alpine PV applications

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset groups numerical simulation outputs and validation measurement data produced in the context of the following [publication]: not published yet The snow transport...

    Last updated: March 26, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • preferential-deposition
    • renewable-energy
    • snow-transport
    • alpine
    • photovoltaic