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451 datasets found

  • Schänis, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1998 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: 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

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    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

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • orthophoto
    • findelengletscher
    • gletscher
    • dsm
    • alps
    • drone
    • orthoimage
    • dem
    • sankt-annafirn
    • griesgletscher
    • glacier
    • uav
  • Aerosol Data Davos Wolfgang

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    Aerosol properties were measured between February 8 and March 31 2019 at the measurement site Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577). Optical and aerodynamic particle...

    Last updated: March 6, 2022

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    • aerosol
    • drincz
    • inp
    • raclets
    • ice-nucleation
    • particles
  • TRAMM project Ruedlingen experimental landslide dataset, Switzerland

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    A landslide testsite dataset related to pore water pressure perturbations on the stability of unsaturated silty sand slopes leading to the initiation and propagation of the shear...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • tramm
    • pressure-perturbations
    • cces
    • landslides
    • pore-water
    • landslide-testsite
  • Sentinel-2 imagery of Switzerland

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    We processed Sentinel-2 images from 2017 to 2023 for Switzerland with the Software FORCE (Frantz 2019). The respective parameter files can be found here:...

    Last updated: February 20, 2025

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    • OCTET
    • remote-sensing
    • switzerland
    • sentinel-2
    • raster-processing
    • force
  • Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland

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    Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand...

    Last updated: July 2, 2025

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    • ecology
    • forest
    • climate-change
    • statistical-interpolation
    • biodiversity
    • microclimate
    • radiation-transfer
  • Understanding snow saltation parameterizations - Reproducibility

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    This dataset includes the necessary files to reproduce the results presented in Melo et al. (2024):

    • code version used in the simulations (also available at the institutional...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • drifting-snow
    • large-eddy-simulation
    • saltation-parameterizations
    • splash
    • snow-saltation
    • aerodynamic-entrainment
  • From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions. Book of Abstracts

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    Book of abstracts from the virtual conference "From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions"

    Cities and urban regions are among the most dynamic land-use systems in the...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • land-change
    • urban-landscape
    • urban-planning
    • concur
    • landscape-planning
  • Vegetation Height Model NFI

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    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
  • Anthropogenic change and soil net N mineralization

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Risch Anita C., Zimmermann, Stefan, Moser, Barbara, SchĂĽtz, Martin, Hagedorn,...

    Last updated: August 20, 2020

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    • climate
    • nutrient-network
    • grassland
    • herbivore
    • soil
    • fertilization
    • nitrogen
    • nitrification
    • ammonification
    • global-change
    • mineralization
  • Snow on Antarctic Sea Ice - McMurdo Sound 2022

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    Data of snow and sea ice in the McMurdo Sound, October-December 2022. The data was collected as part of the New Zealand Marsden Fund Research Grant 21-VUW-103 "Can Snow Change the...

    Last updated: April 10, 2025

    • ZIP
    • drone-data
    • snow
    • spatial-variability
    • sea-ice
    • antarctica
    • polar
  • Reproducibility Dataset for CRYOWRF v1.0

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data required for reproducibility of the results to be published in the associated manuscript.

    Apart from reproducibility, the attached datasets also...

    Last updated: July 16, 2021

    • ZIP
    • snow-atmosphere-interaction
    • alps
    • antarctica
    • mesoscale-modelling
    • blowing-snow
  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

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    Two data sets obtained for snow farming projects (Fluela, Davos, CH and Martell, IT) in 2015.

    The data set contains for each site:

    • 10 cm GIS raster of snow depth calculated...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • TXT
    • snowpack
    • snow-conservation
    • snow
    • snow-farming
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • winter-tourism
  • Dataset on Cosmo-1 based Energy Potential in Swiss Alps

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    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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    • SERVICE
    • cosmo-1
    • es2050
    • mountain-wind-potential
    • wind-energy
    • topography
  • A novel approach for bridging the gap between climate change scenarios and avalanche hazard indication mapping

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    To assess the possible consequences of potential changes in snow accumulation and temperature and their impact on avalanche hazard, we introduce a comprehensive multi-step...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • hazard
    • ramms
    • avalanche-mapping
    • new-snow
    • avalanche
    • climate-change
  • Resurveyed vegetation releves of beech forests in the Swiss Jura Mountains

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    This dataset comprised 254 historical (1937 – 1948) and resurveyed (2019 – 2022) vegetation relevés of beech-dominated forests sites in the Swiss Jura mountains. The data contains...

    Last updated: February 21, 2024

    • XLS
    • forest
    • air-pollution
    • ground-vegetation
    • climate-change
    • forest-management
    • fagus-sylvatica
  • Latent Heat Flux over Snow

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    This dataset contains three case studies where are compared the latent heat flux calculated using the Eddy Covariance (EC) method, the Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) and...

    Last updated: February 25, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • meteo-station
    • meteo
    • central-asia
    • snow
    • swiss-alps
    • meta
  • Mountain Permafrost Hydrology

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    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
  • Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

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    Snow and air data was monitored at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) by an infrarot radiometer (Campbell SI-111) for snow temperature (°C), a snow height sensor (Lufft SHM-31)...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • raclets
    • temperature
    • snow-temperature
    • snow
    • snow-height
    • snow-depth
  • Tectonic and climatic controls on plant biodiversity in the Hengduan Mountains China

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    This dataset includes geomorphic predictors and plant biodiversity patterns in the Hengduan Mountains, published in the Geological Society of London special volume: Asian...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • relief
    • tectonic-faults
    • plant-biodiversity
    • climate-history
    • endemism