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396 datasets found

  • lsUDPS Large-scale urban development projects in European urban regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "lsUDPs" ; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set lsUDPs; 3. The data set lsUDPs: 3.1 Selection of cases and...

    Last updated: March 15, 2022

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    • TXT
    • land-use-change
    • urban-transformations
    • spatial-planning
    • land-use-transformations
    • strategic-projects
    • large-scale-urban-development-projects
    • strategic-spatial-planning
    • europe
  • Planning intentions in strategic plans of European urban regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the report titled Gradinaru S.R., Hersperger A.M., Schmid F. (2021). Deriving Planning Intentions from written planning documents. Report on CONCUR...

    Last updated: March 1, 2022

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    • development-priorities
    • strategic-plans
    • urban-region
    • europe
    • spatial-information
  • SnowMicroPen measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

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    Education, culture and sport

    SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Measurements were taken in the vicinity of the Belgium Princess Elisabeth Station...

    Last updated: June 21, 2022

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    • antarctica
    • snow-density
    • snow-density-profile
    • microstructure
    • snowmicropen
  • Information on soil based on the soil dependency of the FOEN red list species

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation: Frey B., Maurer C., Schneider K. (2023) Informationen zum Boden anhand der...

    Last updated: March 7, 2024

    • XLS
    • info-fauna
    • red-list
    • soil-biodiversity
    • soil-dependency
    • fauna
    • ecosystem-protection
    • lichens
    • eco-fauna
    • soil-organisms
    • fungi
    • conservation
    • soil-quality
    • database
  • Kinetic experiments on the oxidation of bromide by ozone from 289-245 K.

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    Education, culture and sport

    The reaction of ozone with bromide in polar regions results in the formation of reactive bromide species with impacts on ozone budget and the oxidative capacity of the lower...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

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    • antartic
    • laboratory-study
    • cryosphere
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • snow
    • arctic
    • polar
  • Bibliography of the long-term treeline research site Stillberg, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    The Stillberg ecological treeline research site in the Swiss Alps was established in 1975, with the aim to develop ecologically, technically, and...

    Last updated: October 19, 2023

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    • literature-review
    • mountain-ecology
    • treeline-ecosystems
    • long-term-experiment
    • stillberg
  • Robot-aided measurement of insect diversity on vegetation using environmental DNA

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    Education, culture and sport

    Traditional methods of biodiversity monitoring are often logistically challenging, time-consuming, require experienced experts on species identification and sometimes include...

    Last updated: June 26, 2025

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    • insect
    • minion
    • switzerland
    • drone
    • edna
    • ins16s
  • Dataset for the publication Drivers of Droplet Formation in East Mediterranean Orographic Clouds

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains the datasets that were used for used for the paper:: Drivers of Droplet Formation in East Mediterranean Orographic Clouds, EGUsphere,...

    Last updated: September 4, 2024

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • hygroscopicity
    • aerosol
    • cloud-droplets
    • ccn
    • hac2
  • DISCHMEX - Impact of extreme land-surface heterogeneity on micrometeorology over spring snow-cover

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains eddy-covariance measurements in the ablation period of 2014-2016. Measurements were taken from two turbulence towers over a long-lasting snow patch, which are...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • PNG
    • XLS
    • patchy-snow-covers
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • dischmex
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • snow-patch
  • Data analysis toolkits

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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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    • SERVICE
    • bayesian-inference
    • statistics
    • error-propagation
    • data-analysis
    • uncertainty
    • hypothesis-testing
  • Community structure, life-history traits and performance traits of urban cavity-nesting bees annd wasps

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background Urban ecosystems are associated with socio-ecological conditions that can filter and promote taxa. However, the strength of the effect of ecological filtering on...

    Last updated: April 29, 2025

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    • wasps
    • richness
    • cavity-nesting
    • life-history-traits
    • performance-traits
    • cities
    • hymenoptera
    • bees
    • hymennoptera
    • urban-ecology
    • urbanization
    • natural-enemies
  • HYDROpot_integral

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    Education, culture and sport

    A spatial dataset and tool to simultaneously assess hydropower potential and ecological potential of the Swiss river network (Version 2016)

    Introduction The steadily growing...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • SHP
    • SERVICE
    • decision-making
    • hydropower
    • integral-water-management
    • gis
    • ecosystem-protection
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland. Typical snow profile measurements and observations are included (temperature, density, grain size,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • weisfluhjoch
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-density
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014

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    Education, culture and sport

    Overview

    The CH2014-Impacts initiative is a concerted national effort to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively, drawing on the scientific resources...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • snow-depth
    • ch2011
    • ch2014
    • climate-change
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains long-term snow water equivalent and corresponding snow depth data 11 observer sites in Switzerland between 1200 and 2500 m a.s.l. compiled for the Global...

    Last updated: March 31, 2025

    • TXT
    • CSV
    • snow
    • snow-profile
    • snow-height
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gcos
  • Data from: Does one model fit all? patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The datasets comprise nearly 19’000 trees of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) from unmanaged forests in Switzerland, Germany / Lower Saxony and Ukraine. Tree death was...

    Last updated: November 17, 2023

    • CSV
    • mortality-models
    • tree-mortality
    • forest-inventory
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest-reserves
    • primeval-forests
  • Chironico, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 2000 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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    • CSV
    • PDF
    • wind-speed
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
    • par
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
  • Effective, anisotropic elasticity tensor of snow, firn, and bubbly ice

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The study aims to determine the effective elastic properties of snow, firn, and bubbly ice based on microstructural quantities. Anisotropy, one of these quantities (the other being...

    Last updated: November 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • microstructure
    • anisotropy
    • fem
    • crystallographic
    • geometrical
    • elasticity
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Assessment of thermal stabilisation measures based on numerical simulations at a Swiss Alpine permafrost site

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This work presents the numerical study of the thermal stabilisation methods to slow this permafrost thawing, protecting from landscapes and infrastructure damaging at an alpine...

    Last updated: October 1, 2025

    • ZIP
    • barrier-layer
    • solar-energy
    • heat-pump
    • climate-change
    • swiss-alps
    • thermal-insulation
    • permafrost
    • permafrost-degradation
    • thermal-stabilisation
    • cooling-pipes
  • LUSzoning: Land-use simulations integrating zoning regulations in Spanish functional urban areas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "LUSzoning”; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set LUSzoning; 3. The data set LUSzoning.

    1. General context of...

    Last updated: July 20, 2021

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    • land-use-transformations
    • digital-zoning-plans
    • land-use-simulations
    • land-use-change
    • spatial-planning