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451 datasets found

  • Effective, anisotropic elasticity tensor of snow, firn, and bubbly ice

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    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

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    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
  • Global Cryosphere Watch data survey

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    Education, culture and sport

    Two surveys on the topic of data usage where conducted for the Global Cryosphere Watch data portal. The first one focused on the data provider point of view while the second one...

    Last updated: January 30, 2020

    • CSV
    • data-exchange
    • data-portal
    • data-usage
    • automatic-publication
    • gcw
  • Restoring grassland multifunctionality

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    Education, culture and sport

    Please cite this paper together with the citation for the datafile.

    Resch, M. C., SchĂĽtz, M., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U., van der Putten, W. H., Zimmermann, S., Risch, A. C....

    Last updated: October 19, 2021

    • XLS
    • restoration
    • mineralization
    • fungi
    • soil-biodiversity
    • bacteria
    • grassland
    • plants
    • biodiversity
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • nematodes
  • snowBedFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian-Lagrangian solver for modelling snow transport

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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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    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • openfoam
    • antarctica
    • snow-deposition
    • arctic-sea-ice
    • snow-transport
    • mosaic
  • Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the parallel application and the main results supporting the research article "Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion"...

    Last updated: December 8, 2021

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    • saltation
    • snow-cohesion
    • mixed-grain-transport
    • drifting-snow
    • large-eddy-simulations
  • Priority ranking for the conservation of all European bryophyte species - dataset

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides data on the occurrence of 672 European bryophyte species in European countries or territories. All species which are considered threatened or near threatened...

    Last updated: August 11, 2025

    • XLS
    • rarity
    • bryophytes
    • europe
    • red-list
    • conservation-priority
    • range-size
    • endemic
  • Stable water isotopes and EC in overland flow, topsoil interflow, soil water, groundwater, and rainwater for 12 rainfall events in the Studibach catchment, Alptal, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains stable isotope ratios of oxygen and hydrogen (O-18 and H-2) and electrical conductivity (EC) in overland flow (OF), topsoil interflow (TIF), soil water,...

    Last updated: August 5, 2025

    • CSV
    • topsoil-interflow
    • soil-water
    • electrical-conductivity
    • groundwater
    • overland-flow
    • alptal
    • rainfall
    • plot
    • stable-isotopes
    • studibach
  • Induced Rockfall Dataset (Small Rock Experimental Campaign), Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland

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    Dataset of an experimental campaign of induced rockfall in Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland.

    The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophoto...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • sensor-stream
    • stonenodedata
    • deposition-points
    • rockfall-experiments
    • dem
    • stonenode
    • natural-hazards
    • rockfall
    • rockfall-runout
    • induced-rockfall
  • Ecosystem coupling and multifunctionality - exclosure experiment

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Risch AC, Ochoa-Hueso R, van der Putten WH, Bump JK, Busse MD, Frey B,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • XLS
    • grassland
    • ecosystem-coupling
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • vertebrates
    • ecosystem-functions
    • exclusion
    • invertebrates
    • swiss-national-park
    • grazing
    • subalpine
  • Bettlachstock, 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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    • CSV
    • PDF
    • 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

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    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

    • PDF
    • 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

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

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    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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    • HTML
    • XLS
    • protective-effect
    • compound-events
    • natural-hazards
    • drought
    • forest-fire
    • bark-beetles
    • protection-forest
    • extreme-events
  • ICP Forests Defoliation and Symptoms Data Set

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set has been obtained after processing original data from the ICP Forests data infrastructure. It includes "clean" defoliation and symptoms data from 19 countries over...

    Last updated: October 2, 2025

    • CSV
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • forest-heath
    • forest-vitality
    • defoliation
    • crown-condition
    • icp-forests
  • CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • growing-degree-days
    • solar-radiation
    • temperature
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • soil-water-balance
    • growing-season-length
  • DISCHMEX - Observations and simulations of the close-ridge small-scale atmospheric flow field and snow accumulation at Sattelhorn, Dischma valley, Davos, Switzerland.

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data presented here corresponds to the publication "A Close-Ridge Small-Scale Atmospheric Flow Field and its Influence on Snow Accumulation" (Gerber et al., 2017), which...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • preferential-deposition
    • lee-side-flow-field
    • lidar
    • tls
    • alpine3d
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Latschuelfurgga

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To map and assess snow depth on different dates, 9 flights were conducted in the winter season of 2020/21 at the LatschĂĽelfurgga in Davos. The data was captured with a Sony RX1R II...

    Last updated: April 22, 2024

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    • uav
    • drone-data
    • wingtra
    • photogrammetry
    • orthophoto
    • dsm
    • snow-depth-mapping
  • Electrodermal Activity (EDA) of Bi-cultural Visitors In Virtual Park Settings

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data on EDA measurements of visitors with different cultural backgrounds in virtual urban park settings. The parks are a Persian garden (Shiraz, Iran) and...

    Last updated: December 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • sense-of-place
    • place-attachment
    • electrodermal-activity
    • urban-ecology
    • landscape