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86 datasets found

  • Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat Concept

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the...

    Last updated: April 23, 2021

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    • jupyter-notebooks
    • hpc
    • research-data-management
    • open-source
    • open-science
    • open-data
    • reproducibility
  • Starter Kit for the TreeMig framework v1 for easy simulation of spatio-temporal forest dynamics

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Starter kit for the TreeMig framework that allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental...

    Last updated: May 2, 2025

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    • r-package
    • species-migration
    • forest-model
    • forest
    • gui
    • species-interaction
    • spatial-modelling
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • treemig
    • forest-dynamics
    • land-use
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2021 in the Erlenbach Catchment

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    The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2021 in the Erlenbach catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • groundwater
    • precipitation
    • solutes
    • catchment
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • catchment-data
    • erlenbach
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • stream-water
  • Sample plot inventory data form the Parc Naturel du Jorat

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    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

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    • beech
    • forest-reserves
    • forest-in
    • temperate-forests
    • swiss-plateau
  • Production de biogaz Ă  partir d’engrais de ferme en Suisse

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    L'objectif de ce livre blanc est de fournir aux décideurs, aux administrations et aux parties prenantes les résultats de recherche les plus récents afin de promouvoir l'utilisation...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

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    • switzerland
    • manure
    • bioenergy
    • review
    • biogas
  • Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Erlenbach Catchment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Erlenbach catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2021, as...

    Last updated: October 30, 2024

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    • drainage
    • dynamics
    • data
    • channel
    • dataset
    • erlenbach
    • precipitation
    • drainage-network
    • catchment-data
    • catchment
    • water-level
  • Stable Water Isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch

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    Notice: Changes to the dataset are still possible. Please do not use this dataset until the final publication with a DOI. Contact the authors if you have questions about...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • latent-heat
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow
    • natural-tracer
    • post-depositional-processes
    • paleoclimate
    • sublimation
    • stable-water-isotopes
  • Data analysis toolkits

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    These are condensed notes covering selected key points in data analysis and statistics. They were developed by James Kirchner for the course "Analysis of Environmental Data" at...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • bayesian-inference
    • statistics
    • error-propagation
    • data-analysis
    • uncertainty
    • hypothesis-testing
  • Chironico, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 2000 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    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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    • wind-speed
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
    • par
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
  • snowBedFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian-Lagrangian solver for modelling snow transport

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    snowBedFoam 1.0. is a snow transport solver implemented in the computational fluid dynamics software OpenFOAM. It is adapted from the standard multi-phase flow solver DPMFoam for...

    Last updated: March 25, 2024

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    • openfoam
    • antarctica
    • snow-deposition
    • arctic-sea-ice
    • snow-transport
    • mosaic
  • Bettlachstock, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    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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    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • climate-change
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • precipitation
    • wind-speed
  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high...

    Last updated: September 19, 2024

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    • GeoTIFF
    • bioclim
    • climate-change
    • temperature
    • free-climate-data
    • precipitation
    • climate
    • climate-layers
    • climatology
  • Randomised trial reveals a mismatch between preferences for and hormonal responses to anthropogenic light colour temperatures

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data related to the field experiment of the WP3 (social impacts) of the ALANeX project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute...

    Last updated: June 30, 2025

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    • stress
    • well-being
    • urban-landscape
    • field-data
    • artificial-lighting
  • Experts survey protective forest and combined extremes in Val Mesolcina

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results of a case study analysing the potential impacts of a compound meteorological extreme event on the protective forest in the Val Mesolcina. These...

    Last updated: October 2, 2023

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    • protective-effect
    • compound-events
    • natural-hazards
    • drought
    • forest-fire
    • bark-beetles
    • protection-forest
    • extreme-events
  • CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    A multitude of physical and biological processes on which ecosystems and human societies depend are governed by climatic conditions. Understanding how these processes are altered...

    Last updated: September 19, 2024

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    • growing-degree-days
    • solar-radiation
    • temperature
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • soil-water-balance
    • growing-season-length
  • Schänis, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1998 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: November 25, 2019

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    • long-term
    • climate-change
    • precipitation
    • wind-speed
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • par
    • relative-humidity
  • UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in the...

    Last updated: July 2, 2025

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    • orthophoto
    • findelengletscher
    • gletscher
    • dsm
    • alps
    • drone
    • orthoimage
    • dem
    • sankt-annafirn
    • griesgletscher
    • glacier
    • uav
  • Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • vegetation-height-model
    • point-cloud
    • photogrammety
    • 3d
    • forest
  • Dataset on Cosmo-1 based Energy Potential in Swiss Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • cosmo-1
    • es2050
    • mountain-wind-potential
    • wind-energy
    • topography
  • 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

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    • permafrost-degradation
    • ice-rich-permafrost
    • mass-movements
    • mountain-permafrost-hydrology
    • climate-change-impacts
    • monitoring-techniques