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451 datasets found

  • Spatio-temporal soil and local snow monitoring in a glide-snow avalanche prone slope above Davos Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset consists of spatio-temporal soil measurements and local snow measurements which were recorded to investigate glide-snow avalanche release in the Seewer Berg slope...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • CSV
    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • avalanche
    • soil-moisture
    • avalanche-activity
    • snow-profile
  • UAS based snow depth maps BrämabĂĽel, Davos, CH

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This snow depth map was generated 14 January 2015, close to peak of winter accumulation, applying Unmanned Aerial System digital surface models with a spatial resolution of 10 cm....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • TIFF
    • uas
    • snow
    • remote-sensing
    • swe
    • snow-depth
  • Othmarsingen, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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 2, 2019

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    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteorology
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • temperature
    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • wind-speed
    • par
  • G-TREE: Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Background information Climate change-induced range expansion of treeline populations depends on their successful recruitment, which requires dispersal of viable seeds followed by...

    Last updated: March 26, 2025

    • TXT
    • g-tree
    • stillberg
    • seedling-recruitment
    • picea-abies
    • climate-change
    • larix-decidua
    • treeline
    • forest
    • swiss-alps
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

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    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow-micro-mechanics
    • snow-failure
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow
  • Weather Station Klosters

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    Education, culture and sport

    A weather station (Lufft WS600) measured meteorological parameters at Klosters (LON: 9.880413, LAT: 46.869019). Detailed information on the specifications can be found...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • precipitation
    • klosters
    • temperature
    • raclets
    • weather
    • wind
  • 3D_Snow_Models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types are...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • snow
    • new-snow
    • 3d-model
    • snow-cast
    • 3d-print
    • weak-layer
    • depth-hoar
    • rounded-snow
  • High resolution monthly precipitation and temperature timeseries for the period 2006-2100

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Predicting future climatic conditions at high spatial resolution is essential for many applications in science. Here we present data for monthly time series of precipitation and...

    Last updated: September 19, 2024

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    • cmip5
    • air-temperature
    • climate-change
    • precipitation-amount
    • orographic-precipitation
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This is the simulation dataset from "Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland", M. Bavay, T. GrĂĽnewald, M. Lehning,...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

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    • snow
    • graubunden
    • switzerland
    • climate-change
    • alpine3d-simulations
  • Preprocessing Antarctic Weather Station (AWS) data in python

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    There are many sources providing atmospheric weather station data for the Antarctic continent. However, variable naming, timestamps and data types are highly variable between the...

    Last updated: August 12, 2022

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    • aws
    • cryowrf
    • python
    • consistent
    • antarctica
  • Comprehensive dataset of pollinator diversity and visitation rates with individual-based traits and pollination success across four urban garden plant species

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains detailed records of pollinator communities and plant reproductive outcomes from an urban garden experiment in Zurich, Switzerland. It includes flower...

    Last updated: July 23, 2025

    • ZIP
    • daucus-carota
    • plant-pollinator-interactions
    • garden-experiment
    • pollination
    • urban-ecology
    • symphytum-officinale
    • raphanus-sativus
    • green-spaces
    • urbanisation
    • onobrychis-viciifolia
    • bettergardens
    • urban-biodiversity
    • pollinator-experiment
    • gardens
    • plant-insect-interaction
    • better-gardens
    • zurich
  • Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for Forest Accessibility and Wood Harvesting at FOSS4G2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Europe...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

    • TIFF
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • PNG
    • qgis
    • accessible-forest
    • seilaplan
    • geoprocessing
    • forest
    • openstreetmap
  • snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian–Eulerian two-phase solver for modelling convection of water vapor in snowpacks

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam is a two-phase solver implemented to model convection of water vapor with phase change in snowpacks. This new solver is based on the standard solver of...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • openfoam
    • vapor-transport
    • convection-in-snow
    • snow-density-profile
    • numerical-simulation
  • Radiosondes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Radiosondes (Windsond, Sparv Embedded AB) were started in Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) to report height profiles of pressure, relative humidity and temperature at...

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • ZIP
    • radiosonde
    • temperature
    • holoballoon
    • relative-humidity
    • raclets
    • pressure
    • wind
    • wind-direction
  • SWE2HS model calibration and validation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data in this repository was used for the calibration and validation of the SWE2HS model in the following publication: Aschauer, J., Michel, A., Jonas, T., & Marty, C. (2023)....

    Last updated: April 28, 2023

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    • snow-depth
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • model-validation-data
    • snow-density
    • model-calibration-data
  • Climarctic seasons

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes measurements of potential microbial functions (potential extracellular enzyme activities and microbial functional genes abundance) and soil physico-chemical...

    Last updated: April 23, 2025

    • XLS
    • microbial-biodiversity
    • greenhouse-gases
    • soil
    • microbial-functions
    • arctic
  • Present Weather Sensor Klosters

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A present weather sensor (Vaisala PWD22) was deployed in Klosters (LON: 9.880413, LAT: 46.869019) for weather observation, combining the functions of a forwardscatter visibility...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • precipitation
    • sensor
    • raclets
    • visibility
    • weather
  • Repeated detection-nondetection data of corticolous lichens from a standardised monitoring across Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The available lichen data consists of detection/nondetection data (1/0) of 373 tree-inhabiting (corticolous) lichen species from 416 plots surveyed 1-2 times. The lichen data...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • sessile-species
    • inter-observer-difference
    • detectability
    • cryptogams
    • detection-probability
    • bayesian-inference
    • monitoring
    • observer-error
    • swisslichens
    • biodiversity
    • lichens
    • occupancy-model
  • Root-traits

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Fine-root traits of Scots pine in response to enhanced soil water availability deriving from long-term irrigation in the Pfynwald

    Data_Fig.1.xlsx Fine-root biomass of the topsoil...

    Last updated: June 3, 2024

    • ZIP
    • soil-coring
    • ingrowth-cores
    • belowground-biomass
    • drought
    • fine-root-traits
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Wolfgang Arelen

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted four drone flights in Davos Wolfgang Arelen, in 2020/21 and 2022 to obtain data for the generation of DSMs and orthomosaics at a high resolution. The data was...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

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    • dsm
    • uav
    • wingtra
    • photogrammetry
    • drone-data