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451 datasets found

  • FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

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    Background information

    High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • soil-temperature
    • climate-change
    • experiment
    • stillberg
    • vegetation
    • carbon-dioxide
  • Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

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    This research data is used to re includes 1 km resolution seed plant species range maps for the Hengduan mountain region (southwest China), elevation information for each species,...

    Last updated: October 28, 2024

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    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • hypervolume
    • phytodiversity
    • model-residuals
    • hengduan-mountains
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2023

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    Description: Fish environmental DNA data set collected in 2023 in the Calanques National Park The eDNA samples were collected in 2023 in two locations (Moyades, M−FPA and “Impérial...

    Last updated: April 10, 2025

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    • teleo
    • marseille
    • fish-composition
    • marine
    • edna
    • mediterraneaen
  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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    To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

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    • snowpack
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow-stability-evaluation
  • Disdrometer Data Laret

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    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was used to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The instrument can classify eight different...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

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    • precipitation
    • disdrometer
    • visibility
    • hydrometeors
    • raclets
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • solutes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • stream-water
    • groundwater
  • Snow depth mapping by lidar station Braemabuel

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    We developed a monitoring system using low-cost lidar (Livox Avia) and optical sensors, to measure snow depth variations in an avalanche release area at a high spatiotemporal scale...

    Last updated: May 16, 2025

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    • wind-drifted-snow
    • avalanche
    • low-cost
    • snow
    • monitoring
    • lidar
  • Snow On Antarctic Sea Ice - McMurdoSound 2022 - UAV Retrievals of Snow Topography and Snow Surface Temperature

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    This dataset accompanies the publication "How Flat is Flat? Investigating the spatial variability of snow surface temperature and roughness on landfast sea ice using UAVs in...

    Last updated: April 5, 2025

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    • snow-temperature
    • irra
    • sea-ice
    • antarctica
    • snow-roughness
    • drone
    • uav
    • snow
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

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    Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological parameter...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • meteorological-measurements
    • dischma
    • dischmex
    • meteorological-data
    • meteo-station
  • GEM2: Meteorological and snow station at Gemsstock (3021 m asl), Canton Uri, Switzerland

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    Meteorological station at Gemstock (3021 m asl) in Canton Uri. The station includes in/out LW/SW and a snow height sensor.

    Data from this station is managed by the permos.ch...

    Last updated: May 28, 2024

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    • longwave-radiation
    • snow-height
    • gemstock
    • shortwave-radiation
    • meteo-station
  • Supporting information for case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of macrofungi

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    Resources associated with the manuscript A case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of macrofungi ([Schlegel et al....

    Last updated: September 10, 2024

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    • air-sampling
    • monitoring
    • metabarcoding
    • spore-dispersal
    • environmental-dna
  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

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

    Paper Citation:

    Risch, A. C.; Zimmermann, S.; Ochoa-Hueso, R.; Schütz, M.; Frey, B.; Firn, J....

    Last updated: August 13, 2020

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    • soil-chemistry
    • grassland
    • global
    • nutrient-network
    • soil-biology
    • worldwide
    • soil
    • mineralization
  • 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity

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    This data set includes 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity for seven sites in the Swiss Alps as well as the downscaled climate scenarios and SNOWPACK...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • snow-instability
    • wet-snow-avalanche
    • climate-projections
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • climate-change
    • avalanche
  • Snow Drift Station - 3D Ultrasonic

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    A Young 81000 sonic anemomenter was deployed at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) to record three components of the wind velocity (u, v, w in [m s‾ ¹]) and air...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

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    • wind-velocity
    • wind
    • wind-direction
    • raclets
    • wind-speed
    • anemometer
  • Long-term treeline research dataset at Stillberg, Davos

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    Important This EnviDat entry is outdated. The most recent, usable version of the data can be found under the new EnviDat entry "Long-term afforestation experiment at the Alpine...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • GDB
    • long-term-experiment
    • stillberg
    • mountain-forest
    • afforestation
    • treeline
  • Impulse response functions for nonlinear nonstationary and heterogeneous systems

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    The R script IRFnnhs.R, which efficiently estimates impulse response functions for environmental systems that are nonlinear, nonstationary, or heterogeneous, based on their input...

    Last updated: April 28, 2022

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    • system-identification
    • greens-function
    • irf
    • irfnnhsr
    • deconvolution
    • nonlinear-deconvolution
    • arma-noise
    • de-mixing
    • transfer-function
    • time-series-analysis
    • impulse-response-function
  • Mortality of regeneration: Acer spp. and Fagus sylvatica

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    One individual per species, vitality class (low and high) and height class (eight classes: 0–10, 11–20, 21–35, 36–60, 61–90, 91–130, 131–200 and 201–500 cm) was randomly selected...

    Last updated: November 4, 2021

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    • fagus
    • dominance
    • acer
    • regeneration
    • lar
    • shade-tolerance
    • mortality-rate
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

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    Data on: (1) (Dataset 1) spatial distribution of urban beekeeping (number of hives and number of beekeeping locations) in 14 Swiss cities (Geneva, Lausanne, Biel, Neuchatel, Basel,...

    Last updated: August 12, 2024

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    • urban-biodiversity
    • honeybees
    • pollination
    • remote-sensing
    • urbanization
    • sustainability
  • Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

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    Overview The SUNWELL Modelling Environment is a combination of data and code that models electricity production from satellite-derived irradiance data and other spatial data sets...

    Last updated: July 3, 2024

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    • reflection
    • irradiance
    • albedo
    • photovoltaic
    • mountain
    • snow
    • energy
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Dorfberg

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    The data was collected with a Wingtra Gen II drone and a Sony RX1R II sensor. In total, 10 flights were conducted at different dates, both in summer and winter. A DSM, an...

    Last updated: May 19, 2025

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    • uav
    • dsm
    • snow
    • photogrammetry
    • drone-data
    • snow-depth-mapping
    • snow-distribution
    • orthophoto