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451 datasets found

  • Simulated future discharge and climatological variables for medium-sized catchments in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Daily discharge and the related hydro-meteorological variables precipitation, snowmelt, and soil moisture are provided for current (1981-2017) and for future climate conditions...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • discharge
    • snowmelt
    • precipitation
    • soil-moisture
    • hydrology
  • Simulated avalanche problem types and seismic avalanche activity around Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Avalanche problem types were derived from snow cover simulations with the models Crocus and SNOWPACK at the Weissfluhjoch study plot, Davos, CH. The data include annual frequencies...

    Last updated: December 14, 2021

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    • avalanche-activity
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • avalanche-problem-type
    • weissfluhjoch
    • crocus
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • snowpack
    • avalanche-danger
    • snow-instability
  • Present and future multifaceted plant diversity, uniqueness and conservation in the European Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains extensive data for the European Alps:

    • Observations of ~3,500 plant species
    • Climate (1-km), soil (100-m) and land cover predictors (1km); current...

    Last updated: June 2, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • zonation
    • conservation
    • functional-diversity
    • species-distribution-models
    • plants
    • european-alps
    • beta-diversity
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • land-use-change
    • migclim
    • global-change
    • phylogenetic-diversity
  • Simulation parameters and outputs for a rigorous approach to the specific surface area evolution in snow during temperature gradient metamorphism

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In the associated study [1], two time-lapse temperature gradient metamorphism series of three-dimensional micro-computed tomography images of snow (obtained by [2]) have been used...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ODS
    • fem
    • snow
    • time-series
    • metamorphism
    • x-ray-tomography
    • microstructure
  • Predicted cloud droplet numbers Davos Wolfgang

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    Education, culture and sport

    Cloud droplet properties were predicted between February 24 and March 8 2019 for the measurement site Davos Wolfgang (1630 m a.s.l., LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577). Droplet...

    Last updated: December 17, 2020

    • CSV
    • cloud-modeling
    • wolfgangpass
    • cloud-droplets
    • raclets
    • sigma-w
    • supersaturation
  • Illgraben debris-flow characteristics 2023

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    Education, culture and sport

    List of key debris flow variables from the WSL Illgraben monitoring station (2023) such as occurrence date and time, peak flow depth, peak flow velocity, total volume and bulk...

    Last updated: March 11, 2025

    • CSV
    • TXT
    • magnitude
    • debris-flow
    • illgraben
    • monitoring-station
    • force-plate
  • Nuclear microsatellite markers for Trichopria drosophilae, parasitoid wasp on Drosophila suzukii

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    Education, culture and sport

    Nuclear microsatellite markers and genotype data for Trichopria ddrosophilae

    This data set comprises (i) the characteristics of a set of 21 species-specific nuclear...

    Last updated: November 24, 2023

    • CSV
    • biological-control
    • trichopria-drosophilae
    • drosophila-suzukii
    • multilocus-genotypes
    • population-genetics
    • nuclear-microsatellite-markers
    • simple-sequence-repeats
    • switzerland
  • Data on multi-year drought impacts on European beech in northern Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This study investigated multi-year drought impacts on beech forests through a unique large-scale monitoring of 963 individual beech trees, which showed either premature leaf...

    Last updated: May 2, 2024

    • ZIP
    • leaf-senescence
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • growth-reaction-to-drought-stress
    • forests
    • drought-2018
    • european-summer-drought
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

    Last updated: September 10, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snowpack
    • catchment-data
    • snow-hydrology
    • rain-on-snow
    • meteorological-data
  • Torymus sinensis local and regional early population dynamics in the Insubrian and Piedmont regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the population evolution of a pest and its biocontrol agent in terms of presence proportion at gall level and absolute number of insects.

    The study area...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • castanea-sativa
    • population-evolution
    • southern-switzerland
    • biological-control
    • pest-invasion
    • dryocosmus-kuriphilus
    • torymus-sinensis
  • gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions and a user-friendly GBIF wrapper

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Although species range may be obtained using expert maps or modeling methods, expert data is often species-limited and statistical models need more technical expertise as well as...

    Last updated: June 24, 2025

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • occurrence-records
    • synonyms
    • flags
    • r-package
    • filtering
    • gbif
    • landsca
    • range-maps
    • accepted-name
    • ecoregions
    • species-observations
    • taxonomy
    • large-scale
    • species-distribution
    • hard-limit
    • conservation
  • A grain-size driven transition in the deformation mechanism in slow snow compression

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted consecutive loading-relaxation experiments at low strain rates to study the viscoplastic behavior of the intact ice matrix in snow. The experiments were conducted...

    Last updated: October 10, 2023

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • ice
    • slow-snow-compression-experiments
    • snow-mechanics
    • microstructure
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Swiss electricity system modeling -- HV grid - hydropower topology and inflows - renewable productions - past and forecast meteorological data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains several useful components for Swiss Electricity system modeling:

    1. High-voltage Swiss grid: 2019 snapshot of the high-voltage (>150kV) grid composed...

    Last updated: September 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • meteorological-data
    • forecast-models
    • electricity-grid
    • solar-irradiance
    • reservoir-inflow
    • hydropower
    • renewable-energy
  • Replication files for "Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics"

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Introduction

    The ZIP file contains all data and code to replicate the analyses reported in the following paper.

    Reber, U., Fischer, M., Ingold, K., Kienast, F., Hersperger, A....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • policy-analysis
    • biodiversity
    • text-corpus
    • switzerland
    • policy-documents
    • bgb
    • environmental--policy
  • Swiss-wide survey on restorative places and road traffic noise

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • XLS
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • traffic-noise
    • landscape-perception
    • outdoor-restoration
    • ppgis
    • survey
  • Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Total water reserves of the snow cover [mio m3] for Wägital catchment, Switzerland, for reference date April 1. Data is separated in 2 elevation zones 900m-1500m asl and...

    Last updated: April 30, 2025

    • TXT
    • gcos
    • meteodat-gmbh
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • wagital
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2020

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2020)

    In October 2020 we chose 16 sites from the 2020 EVHOE survey for eDNA...

    Last updated: June 27, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • fish-composition
    • actinopterygii
    • chondrichthyes
    • edna
    • teleo
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • bay-biscay
    • atlantic-region
  • Amphibian and urban-rural landscape data Swiss Lowlands

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data includes (1) amphibian occurrence data (2017-2019) for ten species across the cantons of Aargau and Zürich gathered from the Coordination Center for the Protection of...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ecological-corridors
    • biodiversity
    • human-dominated-landscapes
    • circuit-theory
    • urban-spatial-planning
    • integrated-modelling
  • High resolution global standardized drought indices

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • PDF
    • extreme-events
    • megadrought
    • multi-year-drought
    • chelsa
    • precipitation
    • drought
    • potential-evapotranspiration
  • Data for the publication "Secondary ice production processes in wintertime alpine mixed-phase clouds"

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains all WRF model outputs and observational data sets used for the paper: Georgakaki, P., Sotiropoulou, G., Vignon, É., Billault-Roux, A.-C., Berne, A., and...

    Last updated: December 10, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • blowing-snow
    • swiss-alps
    • wrf
    • jungfraujoch
    • ice-crystal-number-concentration
    • ice-water-content
    • liquid-water-content
    • secondary-ice-production