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451 datasets found

  • ALAN Spongy Moth Laboratory Experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data and Code for ALAN Spongy Moth lab experiment In this repository you will find all the raw datasets used for the data analysis performed in our paper about the impacts of...

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • OCTET
    • CSV
    • light-pollution
    • spongy-moth
    • lab-experiment
    • alan
    • insect-development
  • Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

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    Education, culture and sport

    Preferential deposition of snow and dust over complex terrain is responsible for a wide range of environmental processes, and accounts for a significant source of uncertainty in...

    Last updated: June 3, 2024

    • ZIP
    • turbulence
    • deposition
    • particles
    • atmosphere
    • hill
    • dust
    • snow
  • Long-term biomass dynamics of temperate forests in Europe after cessation of management

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset documents the analyses and the plot generation for the manuscript Long-term biomass dynamics in temperate forests in Europe after cessation of management. We...

    Last updated: January 11, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • OCTET
    • biomass-dynamics
    • forest-reserves
    • forest-inventory
    • environmental-gradients
    • carbon-storage
  • Escarpment evolution drives the diversification of the Madagascar flora

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    Education, culture and sport

    Although much of the endemic biodiversity of Madagascar can be attributed to its isolation as an island in the Indian Ocean, the high rates of speciation throughout its geologic...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

    • ZIP
    • landscape-evolution
    • endemism
    • madagascar
    • flora
    • geology
  • Novaggio, 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 2, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • precipitation
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • climate-change
    • wind-speed
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
  • In-situ soil moisture measurements Napf-region

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    Education, culture and sport

    In the context of landslide early warning research, soil moisture (e.g. volumetric soil water content and soil water potential) has been measured at six locations in the...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • CSV
    • XLS
    • soil-water-matrix-potential
    • soil-water-content
    • soil-temperature
    • landslide-early-warning
    • soil-moisture
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Schürlialp

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data was collected on 16.04.2021 and on 28.05.2021 with a Wingtra Gen II and a Sony RX1 II RGB sensor to obtain snow depth and distribution data. Following the data collection,...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • photogrammetry
    • orthophoto
    • uav
    • drone-data
    • wingtra
    • dsm
  • Dataset for OGRS 2018 publication

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the road and plot data used for the geospatial analysis example showcased in "Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal", a...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • gis
    • density
    • jupyter
    • geospatial
    • buffer
    • roads
  • Data and Code on Extreme Inflow and Lowflow Analysis for Alpine Reservoirs

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    Education, culture and sport

    Summary

    • Dataset of daily inflow to Luzzone reservoir in Ticino, Switzerland

    • R scripts used to generate return levels for low reservoir inflow, low precipitation, high...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • extreme-values
    • low-flow
    • alpine-precipitation
    • reservoir-inflow
    • return-periods
  • CCN, hygroscopicity, predicted cloud droplet numbers Weissfluhjoch

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    Education, culture and sport

    Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) data: A Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) single-column continuous-flow streamwise thermal gradient chamber (CFSTGC; Roberts and Nenes, 2005)...

    Last updated: December 17, 2020

    • CSV
    • weissfluhjoch
    • ccn
    • sigma-w
    • cloud-droplets
    • dmt-ccn-chamber
    • cloud-modeling
    • raclets
    • hygroscopicity
    • supersaturation
  • CHELSAcruts - High resolution temperature and precipitation timeseries for the 20th century and beyond

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    Education, culture and sport

    CHELSAcruts is a delta change monthly climate dataset for the years 1901-2016 for mean monthly maximum temperatures, mean monthly minimum temperatures, and monthly precipitation...

    Last updated: September 19, 2024

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • free-climate-data
    • century
    • maximum-temperature
    • minimum-temperature
    • climate-layers
    • air-temperature
    • timeseries
    • precipitation
    • climate
  • Large GIS raster data derived from Natural Earth Data (Cross Blended Hypso with Shaded Relief and Water)

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    Education, culture and sport

    The attached data are some large GIS raster files (GeoTIFFs) made with Natural Earth data. Natural Earth is a free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. The data used...

    Last updated: August 20, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • GeoTIFF
    • large-files
    • cross-blended-hypso-with-shaded-relief-and-water
    • natural-earth
    • gis
    • qgis
  • Metabarcoding of urban and forest bird faecal samples

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    Education, culture and sport

    We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano, Zurich (Switzerland) and Napoli (Italy). The urban sites were located in urban forests (Lugano,...

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • trophic-networks
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • arthropoda
    • urban-biodiversity
    • birds
  • Disdrometer Data Gotschnagrat

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    Education, culture and sport

    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was deployed at Gotschnagrat (LON: 9.849, LAT: 46.859) to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • precipitation
    • hydrometeors
    • visibility
    • raclets
    • disdrometer
  • Simulation data and analyses of regional food web robustness under habitat loss

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all processed data, simulation outputs, and R/Python scripts used to assess the robustness of regional multi-habitat food webs in Switzerland under various...

    Last updated: April 22, 2025

    • ZIP
    • habitat-fragmentation
    • food-webs
    • trophic-networks
    • trophich
    • network-analysis
    • robustness
    • metaweb
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • TXT
    • ecology
    • traits
    • reef-fish
    • dispersal
    • biodiversity
  • Dataset for the publication New particle formation events can reduce cloud droplets in boundary layer clouds at the continental scale

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains PMCMx-UF model outputs used for the paper: D. Patoulias K. Florou S. N. Pandis and A. Nenes: New particle formation events can reduce cloud droplets in...

    Last updated: November 14, 2023

    • ZIP
    • nucleation
    • total-number
    • pmcamx-uf
    • modeling
    • cloud-droplets
  • GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes GPS-derived snow water equivalent (SWE), snow depth (HS) and liquid water content (LWC) data for three entire snow-covered seasons (2015-2016, 2016-2017,...

    Last updated: November 29, 2019

    • CSV
    • PDF
    • liquid-water-content
    • snow-depth
    • gps
    • snow-cover
    • snow
  • C-N-P-Release Treeline

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    Education, culture and sport

    1. Chemical characteristics of litter layer sampled along elevation gradient across treeline ecotones in the Khibiny mountains (birch) and South Urals (spruce)
    2. Release of C-N-P...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • litter-decomposition
    • carbon-cycle
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • enzymatic-activities
    • nutrient-fluxes
    • microbial-biomass
    • treeline-ecosystems
  • Base cation dynamics in an Oriental beech forest

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    Education, culture and sport

    Throughfall, litterflow and soil solution were sampled during one whole year under five Oriental beech trees in a mixed Hyrcanian beech forest. The amounts of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ and...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • XLS
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • fagus-orientalis-lipsky
    • potassium
    • calcium
    • magnesium