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451 datasets found

  • Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples

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    Education, culture and sport

    For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

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    • spherical-model-snow
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • unconfined-compression-experiments
    • snow-mechanics
    • microstructure
    • 3d-ct-images
  • Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence-only species distribution models

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    Education, culture and sport

    Aim: While species distribution models (SDMs) are standard tools to predict species distributions, they can suffer from observation and sampling biases, particularly presence-only...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • ZIP
    • plant-species
    • background-data
    • cluster
    • environmental-stratification
    • target-group
    • covariate-correction
    • point-process-model
    • random-stratified-sampling
    • survey-effort
    • independent-dataset
  • Distributed Acoustic Sensing Brienz

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), radar detection data used for training and result analysis in the GRL paper titled `Automatic Monitoring of Rock-Slope...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • seismic
    • rockfall
    • early-warning
    • landslide
    • natural-hazard
    • machine-learning
  • Disdrometer Data Davos Wolfgang

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains information on precipitation amount and type for Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) from February 8 to March 19 2019. It includes: characteristics...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • raclets
    • davos
    • disdrometer
    • precipitation
    • fall-velocity
  • Monitoring of ash trees as part of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Programme

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    Education, culture and sport

    In 2013, the Institute for Applied Plant Biology (IAP) started a monitoring programme to study the development and the spatial variation of the ash dieback disease with the aim to...

    Last updated: June 3, 2021

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    • fraxinus
    • iap
    • ash-dieback
    • monitoring
    • forest
  • Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset

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    Education, culture and sport

    The Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset includes values for 65 biological and ecological traits and 25 bioclimatic variables for all 1816 bryophytes included in the European...

    Last updated: March 3, 2023

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    • red-list
    • mosses
    • iucn
    • hornworts
    • liverworts
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • indicator-values
    • life-history-traits
  • Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1995-1996

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    Education, culture and sport

    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This data collection contains information concerning all accidents by snow avalanches causing at least one fatality in...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • avalanche-fatalities
    • avalanche-accidents
    • number-of-dead-persons
    • number-of-caught-persons
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Switzerland VaudCatchment Modipl 2020

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    Education, culture and sport

    Catchment-based sampling of river eDNA integrates terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity of alpine landscapes

    From 22-Jun-2020 to 26-Jun-2020, we sampled five sites comprising one...

    Last updated: June 19, 2024

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    • sper01
    • spermatophytes
    • switzerland
    • environmental-dna
    • edna
    • vertebrates
    • freshwater
    • vert01
  • Overland and topsoil interflow time series from the Studibach - summer 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset comprises the time series of overland flow (OF) and topsoil interflow (TIF) discharges from 14 small runoff plots (1 x 3 m) over 27 rainfall events in 2022 across the...

    Last updated: June 5, 2025

    • XLS
    • land
    • rainfall
    • topsoil-interflow
    • time-series
    • studibach
    • runoff
    • plot
    • alptal
    • overland-flow
  • Continuity in morphological disparity in tropical reef fishes across evolutionary scales

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    Education, culture and sport

    Tropical reef fishes exhibit a large disparity of organismal morphologies contributing to their astonishing biodiversity. Morphological disparity, scaling from differences among...

    Last updated: March 27, 2025

    • ZIP
    • reef-fish
    • morphology
    • landscape
    • landscape-evolution
    • indian-ocean
    • landscape-genetics
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

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    Education, culture and sport

    The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created during...

    Last updated: February 19, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • snow
    • intercomparison
    • icecube
    • microct
    • specific-surface-area
  • MOSAIC Snow on Sea Ice Data

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data accompanying David Wagners' Dissertation. Covers model results and various input from ALPINE3D and SNOWPACK adjusted for sea ice during MOSAiC.

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

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    • snow-distribution
    • arctic-sea-ice
    • surface-mass-balance
    • spatial-variability
    • drifting-and-blowing-snow
  • Daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen and Independence Creeks, Sierra Nevada, USA

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    Education, culture and sport

    Hydrometerological and ecohydrological time series from Sagehen Creek and Independence Creek, Sierra Nevada, USA, illustrating hydrological responses to daily cycles in snowmelt...

    Last updated: June 16, 2020

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    • ecohydrology
    • diel-cycle
    • evapotranspiration
    • diurnal-cycle
    • snowmelt
    • sap-flow
    • streamflow
    • groundwater
  • Snow avalanche data Davos, Switzerland, 1999-2019

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    Education, culture and sport

    These data include all avalanches that were mapped in the region of Davos, Switzerland during the winters 1998-1999 to 2018-2019 (21 years), in total 13,918 avalanches, and the...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

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    • snow-avalanche
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • avalanche-activity
    • danger-level
    • avalanche-size
  • Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset supporting the paper "Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses", published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The dataset refers to...

    Last updated: July 18, 2025

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    • CSV
    • XLS
    • TXT
    • soil-biodiversity
    • ecosystem-functioning
    • herbivory
    • grassland
    • invasive-species
  • Digitizing historical plague

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    Education, culture and sport

    We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For...

    Last updated: October 1, 2020

    • ZIP
    • plague-inventory
    • bubonic-plague
    • yersinia-pestis
    • palaeo-epidemiology
    • black-death
    • plague-mapping
    • plague-outbreaks
    • historical-plague
  • Vordemwald, 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 3, 2019

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    • CSV
    • long-term
    • temperature
    • par
    • meteorology
    • precipitation
    • climate-change
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteo
    • wind-speed
    • relative-humidity
  • Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Haute-Mentue Catchment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Haute-Mentue catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2022, as...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • CSV
    • channel
    • drainage-network
    • dynamics
    • water-level
    • catchment
    • drainage
    • precipitation
    • catchment-data
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    Description: Fish environmental DNA data set collected in 2022 in the Calanques National Park The eDNA samples were collected in 2022 in two locations (Moyades, M−FPA and “Impérial...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • edna
    • fish-composition
    • mediterraneaen
    • marine
    • marseille
    • teleo
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Colombia Magdalena 2022

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Monitoring of vertebrates of the lower Magdalena river through eDNA metabarcoding The Magdalena River basin harbors a large biodiversity of vertebrates, with numerous endemic...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • edna
    • colombia
    • magdalena
    • metabarcoding
    • teleo
    • vert01
    • fish