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154 datasets found

  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

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    Education, culture and sport

    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

    Last updated: May 20, 2020

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    • snowfall
    • hydrology
    • snow
    • climate-change-impacts
    • water-cycle
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data GrĂŒenbödeli

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    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted various drone flights at GrĂŒenbödeli near Davos with the Sony RX1R II mounted on a Wingtra drone during 2020/21/22. The data was processed with the Agisoft Metashape...

    Last updated: April 22, 2024

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    • uav
    • drone-data
    • wingtra
    • dsm
    • snow-depth-mapping
    • photogrammetry
    • orthophoto
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2021

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    Description: Fish environmental DNA data set collected in 2021 in the Calanques National Park The eDNA samples were collected in 2021 in two locations (Moyades, M−FPA and “ImpĂ©rial...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • teleo
    • marseille
    • fish-composition
    • edna
    • marine
    • mediterraneaen
  • Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)

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    In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all 12...

    Last updated: September 24, 2024

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    • landscape
    • conservation
    • occupancy-models
    • connectivity
    • wetlands
    • amphibians
  • Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland

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    A rule-based algorithm (Schwieder et al., 2022) was used to produce annual maps for 2018–2021 of grassland-management events, i.e....

    Last updated: February 14, 2024

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    • land-use
    • use-intensity
    • remote-sensing
    • grassland
    • landsat
    • sentinel-2
    • mowing
    • management
  • Celerina, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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: September 28, 2020

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    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • temperature
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2019

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    Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2019) In October 2019 we chose 15 sites from the 2019 EVHOE survey for eDNA...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • fish-composition
    • teleo
    • actinopterygii
    • atlantic-region
    • bayofbiscay
    • metabarcoding
    • chondrichthyes
    • edna
  • Environmental DNA Marine Curacao 2020

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    Fish taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic composition variations recovered from eDNA metabarcoding along the coast of Curacao

    In February 2020, we collected a total of 20 water...

    Last updated: June 27, 2024

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    • environmental-dna
    • marine
    • edna
    • fish-composition
    • caribbean-region
    • fish
    • curacao
    • teleo
    • coral-reefs
  • Ceilometer Klosters

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    Cloud base height (m) and vertical visibility (m) were measured with the VAISALA Ceilometer CL31 in Klosters (LON: 9.880413, LAT: 46.869019). The CL31 is an instrument with...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

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    • vertical-visibility
    • klosters
    • raclets
    • ceilometer
    • cloud-base-height
  • Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

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    Laboratory experiments are presented on the phase change at the surface of sodium chloride – water mixtures at temperatures between 259 K and 240 K. High selectivity to the upper...

    Last updated: July 17, 2020

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    • arctic
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • snow
    • antarctica
    • ice
  • Multi-Scale Prioritization framework for Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure Planning to Support Biodiversity: Data & Codes

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    This data includes (1) Scripts to aggregate landscape resistance layers into squared and hexagonal grids (i.e., different representations and resolutions), (2) Input resistance...

    Last updated: April 3, 2023

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    • network-analysis
    • circuit-theory
    • ecological-corridors
    • urban-planning
    • biodiversity
    • ecosystem-services
  • Long-term biomass dynamics of temperate forests in Europe after cessation of management

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    This dataset documents the analyses and the plot generation for the manuscript Long-term biomass dynamics in temperate forests in Europe after cessation of management. We...

    Last updated: January 11, 2024

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    • biomass-dynamics
    • forest-reserves
    • forest-inventory
    • environmental-gradients
    • carbon-storage
  • Novaggio, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    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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    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • precipitation
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • climate-change
    • wind-speed
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data SchĂŒrlialp

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data was collected on 16.04.2021 and on 28.05.2021 with a Wingtra Gen II and a Sony RX1 II RGB sensor to obtain snow depth and distribution data. Following the data collection,...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

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    • photogrammetry
    • orthophoto
    • uav
    • drone-data
    • wingtra
    • dsm
  • Dataset for OGRS 2018 publication

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the road and plot data used for the geospatial analysis example showcased in "Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal", a...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • gis
    • density
    • jupyter
    • geospatial
    • buffer
    • roads
  • Data and Code on Extreme Inflow and Lowflow Analysis for Alpine Reservoirs

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    Summary

    • Dataset of daily inflow to Luzzone reservoir in Ticino, Switzerland

    • R scripts used to generate return levels for low reservoir inflow, low precipitation, high...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

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    • extreme-values
    • low-flow
    • alpine-precipitation
    • reservoir-inflow
    • return-periods
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

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    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

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    • ecology
    • traits
    • reef-fish
    • dispersal
    • biodiversity
  • Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980-2099 derived from the 50 member CRCM5-LE

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    This dataset contains the Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980 - 2099 as stated in the paper "Climate change impacts on regional fire weather in heterogeneous...

    Last updated: December 22, 2023

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    • climate-indicators
    • indicator-values
    • forest-fire
    • mountains
    • meteorological-data
    • climate
    • european-alps
    • fire
    • climate-change
    • europe
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

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    Education, culture and sport

    Here debrisInterMixing until version 7 is provided for download. Further versions as well as installation instructions and tutorials and discussion forums (mostly in german) can be...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • natural-hazard
    • finite-volumes
    • hangmuren
    • debris-flow
    • interfoam
    • barrier-impact-simulation
    • shallow-landslide
    • dberisintermixing
    • murgang
  • Teaser videos Swiss landscapes under climate change

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    Short videos showing scenarios of potential landscape development in a 4°C warmer climate for a Swiss mountain region and a region on the Swiss Plateau. The videos are in German or...

    Last updated: February 14, 2024

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    • visualization
    • policy-action
    • landscape-change
    • climate-change
    • scenario