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86 datasets found

  • Swiss-wide survey on restorative places and road traffic noise

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data related to the Swiss-wide survey of the RESTORE project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and...

    Last updated: March 28, 2025

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    • traffic-noise
    • landscape-perception
    • outdoor-restoration
    • ppgis
    • survey
  • High resolution global standardized drought indices

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    The dataset consists of the standardized precipitation (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) index with a 30 arcsec (~1km) horizontal resolution....

    Last updated: January 28, 2025

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    • extreme-events
    • megadrought
    • multi-year-drought
    • chelsa
    • precipitation
    • drought
    • potential-evapotranspiration
  • Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset

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    The Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset includes values for 65 biological and ecological traits and 25 bioclimatic variables for all 1816 bryophytes included in the European...

    Last updated: March 3, 2023

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    • red-list
    • mosses
    • iucn
    • hornworts
    • liverworts
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • indicator-values
    • life-history-traits
  • Daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen and Independence Creeks, Sierra Nevada, USA

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    Hydrometerological and ecohydrological time series from Sagehen Creek and Independence Creek, Sierra Nevada, USA, illustrating hydrological responses to daily cycles in snowmelt...

    Last updated: June 16, 2020

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    • ecohydrology
    • diel-cycle
    • evapotranspiration
    • diurnal-cycle
    • snowmelt
    • sap-flow
    • streamflow
    • groundwater
  • Snow avalanche data Davos, Switzerland, 1999-2019

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    These data include all avalanches that were mapped in the region of Davos, Switzerland during the winters 1998-1999 to 2018-2019 (21 years), in total 13,918 avalanches, and the...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

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    • snow-avalanche
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • avalanche-activity
    • danger-level
    • avalanche-size
  • Vordemwald, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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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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    • long-term
    • temperature
    • par
    • meteorology
    • precipitation
    • climate-change
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteo
    • wind-speed
    • relative-humidity
  • Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Haute-Mentue catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2022, as...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • channel
    • drainage-network
    • dynamics
    • water-level
    • catchment
    • drainage
    • precipitation
    • catchment-data
  • FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

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    Background information

    High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • soil-temperature
    • climate-change
    • experiment
    • stillberg
    • vegetation
    • carbon-dioxide
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • solutes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • stream-water
    • groundwater
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

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    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

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    • meteorological-measurements
    • dischma
    • dischmex
    • meteorological-data
    • meteo-station
  • DISCHMEX - High-resolution daily snow ablation rates in an Alpine environment

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    We recorded snow ablation maps with a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS, Riegl-VZ6000) at the Gletschboden area. The TLS position is located approximately 30 vertical meters above the...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • snow-ablation-rates
    • riegl-vz6000
    • tls
    • patchy-snow-covers
  • Biogas aus Hofdünger in der Schweiz

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    Education, culture and sport

    Ziel dieses Whitepapers ist es, Entscheidungsträgern, Verwaltungen und Stakeholdern die aktuellsten Forschungsergebnisse zur Verfügung zu stellen, um die optimale Nutzung von...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

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    • manure
    • switzerland
    • biogas
    • review
    • bioenergy
  • Data Konzeptionelles Systemmodell

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    Education, culture and sport

    This folder contains documents relevant to the project step Konzeptionelles Systemmodell. It specifically contains the following documents:

    1. 0201_Konzeptionelles...

    Last updated: February 3, 2025

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    • landscape-change
    • policy-action
    • scenarios
    • qualitative-research
    • climate-change
  • Jussy, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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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    • par
    • precipitation
    • temperature
    • long-term
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
  • Lausanne, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    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
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • climate-change
  • Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine

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    In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height...

    Last updated: March 25, 2020

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    • long-term-data-sets
    • carpathian-biosphere-reserve
    • forest-dynamics
    • dem
    • stand-inventory-data
    • primeval-beech-forest
    • forest
    • permanent-forest-plot-data
    • forest-structure
    • fagus-sylvatica
  • CH-Kleinstwasserkraftwerke - ein schweizweiter Datensatz zu Kleinstwasserkraftwerken

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    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

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    • schweiz
    • kleinstwasserkraftwerke
    • wasserkraft
    • speed2zero
    • datensatz
  • Spatio-temporal soil and local snow monitoring in a glide-snow avalanche prone slope above Davos Switzerland

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    This dataset consists of spatio-temporal soil measurements and local snow measurements which were recorded to investigate glide-snow avalanche release in the Seewer Berg slope...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • avalanche
    • soil-moisture
    • avalanche-activity
    • snow-profile
  • Othmarsingen, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 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 2, 2019

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    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteorology
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • temperature
    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • wind-speed
    • par
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

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    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

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    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow-micro-mechanics
    • snow-failure
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow