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136 datasets found

  • Metabarcoding of urban and forest bird faecal samples

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano, Zurich (Switzerland) and Napoli (Italy). The urban sites were located in urban forests (Lugano,...

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • trophic-networks
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • arthropoda
    • urban-biodiversity
    • birds
  • Disdrometer Data Gotschnagrat

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was deployed at Gotschnagrat (LON: 9.849, LAT: 46.859) to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • precipitation
    • hydrometeors
    • visibility
    • raclets
    • disdrometer
  • Simulation data and analyses of regional food web robustness under habitat loss

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all processed data, simulation outputs, and R/Python scripts used to assess the robustness of regional multi-habitat food webs in Switzerland under various...

    Last updated: April 22, 2025

    • ZIP
    • habitat-fragmentation
    • food-webs
    • trophic-networks
    • trophich
    • network-analysis
    • robustness
    • metaweb
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • TXT
    • ecology
    • traits
    • reef-fish
    • dispersal
    • biodiversity
  • Dataset for the publication New particle formation events can reduce cloud droplets in boundary layer clouds at the continental scale

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains PMCMx-UF model outputs used for the paper: D. Patoulias K. Florou S. N. Pandis and A. Nenes: New particle formation events can reduce cloud droplets in...

    Last updated: November 14, 2023

    • ZIP
    • nucleation
    • total-number
    • pmcamx-uf
    • modeling
    • cloud-droplets
  • Ramerenwald Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark for different LiDAR and photogrammetric Sensors in a mixed temperate forest. Benchmarks are needed to evaluate the performance of different...

    Last updated: March 15, 2023

    • ZIP
    • structure-from-motion
    • unmanned-aerial-vehicle-laser-scanning
    • mobile-laser-scanning
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • terrestrial-photogrammetry
    • lidar
    • 3d-point-cloud
    • forest-inventory
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • natural-hazard
    • finite-volumes
    • hangmuren
    • debris-flow
    • interfoam
    • barrier-impact-simulation
    • shallow-landslide
    • dberisintermixing
    • murgang
  • Database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains open, harmonized, and ready-to-use global data on holdover time. Holdover time is defined as the time between lightning-induced fire ignition and fire...

    Last updated: March 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • database
    • holdover
    • smouldering
    • zenodo
    • lightning-location-system
    • forest-fire
  • WFJ_ICE_LAYERS: Multi-instrument data for monitoring deep ice layer formation in an alpine snowpack

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The WFJ_ICE_LAYERS dataset contains multi-instrument snowpack measurements at high temporal resolution, which enable to monitor the formation of deep ice layers due to preferential...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • ice-layers
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • water-front
    • snowmicropen
    • snow-temperature
  • Wind LIDAR Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Scanning wind Lidar from Meteoswiss was installed at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) and measured from 200 m above ground to 8100 m. The time resolution is up to 5...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • wind
    • raclets
    • profiles
    • wolfgangpass
    • lidar
  • CALISHTO campaign dataset for the publication Biological and Dust Aerosols as Sources of Ice-nucleating Particles in the Eastern Mediterranean

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains all observational data sets during CALISHTO campaign used for the paper: Gao, K., Vogel, F., Foskinis, R., Vratolis, S., Gini, M. I., Granakis, K.,...

    Last updated: September 4, 2024

    • ZIP
    • inp-parameterization
    • ice-nucleation
    • aerosol-cloud-interactions
    • biological-particles
    • aerosol-source-apportionment
  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • field-test
    • trajectory
    • field-tests
    • field-data
    • natural-hazards
    • experiments
    • rockfall
    • experiment
    • mass-movements
  • Biogeochemical data from a transplantation experiment of monolith soil turfs along an altitudinal gradient to simulate climate change scenarios

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Silvopastoral systems are highly productive and combine long-term wood production with annual provision of forage for livestock. In the Swiss Jura Mountains these systems are a key...

    Last updated: July 10, 2025

    • ZIP
    • soil
    • climate-change
    • silvopastoral-systems
    • biogeochemisty
    • transplantation-experiment
  • Ring wind tunnel experiments - airborne snow metamorphism and stable water isotopes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset collection contains all datasets collected during the ring wind tunnel experiments in January and May 2023 at the SLF cold laboratory facilities in Davos. A full...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snow-saltation
    • water-isotopes
    • wind-tunnel
    • cold-lab
    • experiments
    • blowing-snow
    • metamorphism
    • drifting-snow
  • How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We used five different atmospheric turbulence datasets from four test sites, with these sites showing differences in their topographical characteristics. We chose one typical...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • stable-boundary-layer
    • snow
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • atmosphere
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
  • Soil measurements of Seewer Berg and Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains measured values of soil liquid water content, matric potential, and soil texture of 40 soil samples in Davos, Switzerland. The measurements were used for...

    Last updated: May 8, 2025

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • TXT
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • soil-classification
    • soil
    • lwc
    • alpine
    • measurements
    • matric-potential
    • soil-texture
  • trophiCH v1 - a food web for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Environmental pressures on species can cascade within food webs and even extend beyond individual ecosystems to interconnected systems at large spatial scales. To facilitate the...

    Last updated: May 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • trophic-networks
    • food-webs
    • vascular-plants
    • metaweb
    • vertebrates
    • switzerland
    • invertebarates
  • Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Polygons of wet snow avalanches in the Davos area, as documented by the Swiss avalanche warning service. The georeferenced outlines of the avalanches contain both the release as...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanches
    • snow
    • observations
    • alps
    • shapefile
  • Starter Kit for the TreeMig framework v1 for easy simulation of spatio-temporal forest dynamics

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Starter kit for the TreeMig framework that allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental...

    Last updated: May 2, 2025

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • r-package
    • species-migration
    • forest-model
    • forest
    • gui
    • species-interaction
    • spatial-modelling
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • treemig
    • forest-dynamics
    • land-use
  • Avalanche outlines February and March 1999 from aerial imagery

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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    Last updated: August 22, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche-mapping
    • remote-sensing
    • aerial-imagery
    • avalanche-activity
    • avalanche