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451 datasets found

  • WFJ2: Snow measurements from the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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    This dataset provides HS, TSS and TS50, TS100, TS150 at the station WFJ2 situated on the Weisfluhjoch research site (2536 m asl). It has been created from merging ENET and IMIS...

    Last updated: May 30, 2024

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    • snow-temperatures
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-height
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • enet
    • imis
  • Non-Binary Environmental Archive Data (NEAD) format

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    Important note: From 2025 the NEAD format is being transformed into the interoperable CSV (iCSV) format, a formalized and standardized evolution of the NEAD format. Furthermore,...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • HTML
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • nead
    • metadata-convention
    • research-data-management
    • meteorological-data-format
    • csv
  • Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)

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    Data obtained in the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment at Hofstetten, NW Switzerland, between 2009 and 2016. This dataset contains analyses of the soil solution throughout...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • co2
    • face
    • soil
    • picea-abies
    • forest
    • nitrogen
  • Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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    Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and...

    Last updated: July 17, 2025

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    • snow
    • metamorphism
    • heterogeneous
    • ozone
    • brine
    • arctic
    • laboratory-study
    • reaction
    • solution
    • chemistry
    • alpine
    • antarctica
    • interface
  • Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019

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    This dataset contains measurement and simulation data. The measurements characterize the standard meteorology, turbulence, and snow transport at the S17 site near Syowa Station in...

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

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    • TXT
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • meteorological-data
    • turbulence
    • large-eddy-simulations
    • drifting-snow
    • blowing-snow
    • mass-flux
    • micro-rain-radar
    • antarctica
  • Snow depth, canopy structure and meterorological datasets from the Davos area, Switzerland, Winters 2012/13-2014/15, used for high-resolution forest snow modelling

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    This dataset contains all snow, canopy and meteorological data presented and used in the publication: Mazzotti, G., Essery, R., Moeser, D. & Jonas T. (2020) 'Resolving spatial...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • snow-modelling
    • forest-snow
    • snow-distribution
    • forest-structure
    • snow-energy-balance
  • Compilation of normalized crack propagation speeds

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    Compilation of normalized crack-propagation speeds (expressed as a fraction of the slab shear-wave speed). The dataset contains crack-propagation speeds from DEM simulations (79...

    Last updated: June 27, 2025

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    • OCTET
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • field-data
    • numerical-simulations
    • crack-speed
    • crack-propagation
    • weak-layer
  • Modeled and measured fluxes of latent and sensible heat and snow transport at S17 near Syowa in Antarctica

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    This dataset supports a related publication (Sigmund et al., 2025) and contains

    • results of four large-eddy simulations (LES) coupled to a Lagrangian model (LM) for snow...

    Last updated: May 6, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • TXT
    • parameterization
    • snow-sublimation
    • turbulence
    • antarctica
    • drifting-snow
    • large-eddy-simulation
    • blowing-snow
  • Data Broedlin CNP

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    Mircocosm experiment to identify the individual patterns and controls of C, N, and P mobilization in soils under beech forests. Organic and mineral horizons sampled along a...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • XLS
    • drying-rewetting
    • carbon
    • phosphorus
    • soil
    • nitrogen
    • forest
    • dissolved-organic-matter
    • stoichiometry
    • mineralization
  • Site description Davos Seehornwald CH-DAV

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    Site description of the Seehornwald Davos (CH-DAV) research site. The material provided offers information on the biomass and growth of trees in CH-DAV, including supporting...

    Last updated: May 7, 2025

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    • stem-growth
    • icos
    • seehornwald
    • sap-flow
    • dbh
    • carbon-dioxide
    • forest
    • automated-monitoring
    • forest-ecosystems
    • climate-change
    • carbon-cycle
    • forest-area
    • twd
    • tree-stem
    • biomass
    • lwf
    • carbon-sequestration
    • water-relations
    • icp-forests
    • co2
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • ecosystem-functioning
    • metadata
    • ecophysiology
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • climate-growth
    • forest-characteristics
    • forest-function
    • open-data
    • treenet
    • forest-monitoring
    • forest-canopy
    • forest-biomass
    • carbon-storage
    • davos
    • subalpine
    • flux
    • picea-abies
    • forest-dynamics
    • eddy-covariance
    • ilter
    • dendrometer
  • Fetzer_Khibiny_Treeline_NPcycling

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data on soil nutrients and charcteristics, tree and understory biomass, foliage nutrients, mineralogy, soil temperature and moisture along an elevation gradient from boreal forest...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • biomass-dynamics
    • treeline-ecosystems
    • plant-traits
    • plant-community
    • soil-nutrients
  • Soil organic carbon stock of an afforestation sequence on a subalpine pasture

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    This data set provides soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and stable carbon isotope (13C) values of mineral soil (0-45cm), organic horizons (Oi, Oe, Oa), and root biomass of an...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • subalpine
    • afforestation
    • isotopes
    • picea-abies
    • belowground-biomass
  • Energyscape 2 - Comparing stated preferences of renewable energy landscapes in Switzerland in 2018 and 2022

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    This repository presents the basis data of both the Energyscape 1 (2018) and the Energyscape 2 (2022) survey about renewable energy infrastructure related landscape preferences in...

    Last updated: September 29, 2025

    • CSV
    • survey
    • landscape-perception
    • energy-transition
    • discrete-choice
    • renewable-energy
  • Fiber Bundle Model for snow failure and concurrent Acoustic Emissions

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains modeled and experimental results for laboratory snow failure experiments and the concurrent acoustic emissions signatures for different loading rates. For...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • fiber-bundle-model
    • viscous-deformation
    • sintering
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-mechanics
    • acoustic-emissions
    • snow-failure
  • Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil

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    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper entitled “The role of spatial planning in land change: An assessment of urban planning and nature conservation...

    Last updated: January 6, 2022

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • SHP
    • SERVICE
    • planning-outcome
    • urban-compactness
    • spatial-modelling
    • basic-services
    • urban-morphology
    • forest-gain
    • nature-conservation
    • built-up-classification
    • topography
    • land-use-and-cover-change
    • urban-sprawl
    • forest-persistence
  • Snow Drift Station - Flowcapt

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    The FlowCapt is an ultra-robust instrument measuring solid particle acoustic mass - flux intensities (g m‾ ² s‾ ¹) and wind speeds (m s‾ ¹). It was...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • acoustic-mass-flux
    • wind-speed
    • flowcapt
    • snow-blowing
    • raclets
    • snowdrift
  • Visp, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 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
    • SERVICE
    • par
    • temperature
    • long-term
    • relative-humidity
    • wind-speed
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
    • precipitation
  • Vegetation Height Model LiDAR NFI

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    Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on LiDAR data acquired in the framework of the swissSURFACE3D campaign (swisstopo). To...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

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    • point-cloud
    • three-dimensional
    • vegetation
    • forest
    • vegetation-classification
    • vegetation-height
    • nfi
  • Bats in beaver systems

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    This dataset contains processed bat acoustic data collected to evaluate the ecological impacts of beaver-engineered ponds on bat species richness, activity, and feeding activity....

    Last updated: September 3, 2025

    • OCTET
    • CSV
    • XLS
    • TXT
    • beaver
    • wetland
    • nature-conservation
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • flying-arthropods
    • ecosystem-engineer
    • castor
    • chiroptera
    • deadwood
  • Land use projections and services for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data and scripts of publication:

    Madleina Gerecke, Oskar Hagen, Janine Bolliger, Anna M. Hersperger, Felix Kienast, Bronwyn Price, Loïc Pellissier (2019) Assessing potential...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • urbanization
    • switzerland
    • landscape-services
    • statistical-model
    • land-use
    • land-use-change
    • modeling