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451 datasets found

  • Flow and tracer data for overland flow and topsoil interflow during rainfall simulation experiments in the Studibach catchment - Alptal - Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Description: This dataset comprises the time series of overland flow (OF) and topsoil interflow (TIF) discharge, and tracer concentrations during artificial rainfall simulation...

    Last updated: August 22, 2025

    • XLS
    • rainfall-simulation
    • preferential-flow
    • velocity
    • celerity
    • studibach
    • tracers
    • runoff-plot
    • topsoil-interflow
    • overland-flow
    • alptal
  • Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland at 2090 m a.s.l.

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information The Stillberg ecological treeline research site is located in the transition zone between the relatively humid climate of the Northern Alps and the...

    Last updated: October 9, 2023

    • ZIP
    • air-temperature
    • air-pressure
    • wind-direction
    • relative-humidity
    • stillberg
    • wind-speed
    • snow-depth
    • treeline
    • precipitation-sum
    • dew-point-temperature
    • shortwave-radiation
    • soil-temperature
  • Meteorological Time Series Aligned with Projected Temperature Changes

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides 50 years of seasonal synthetic hourly time series for five meteorological variables: incoming shortwave radiation, total precipitation, relative humidity,...

    Last updated: August 19, 2025

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    • meteo-station
    • shortwave-radiation
    • wind-speed
    • time-series
    • relative-humidity
    • speed2zero
    • air-temperature
    • climate-change
    • precipitation
  • Grassland restoration: insects and insect traits

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Neff, F., Resch, M. C., Marty, A., Rolley, J. D., SchĂĽtz, M., Risch, A. C,...

    Last updated: November 8, 2022

    • CSV
    • insects
    • restoration
    • topsoil-removal
    • functional-traits
    • long-term-experiment
    • functional-diversity
    • grassland
    • diversity
  • History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1850

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    Education, culture and sport

    Naturally, large parts of the Swiss Plateau are characterised by wetlands and meandering rivers. That this is no longer the case today is the result of centuries of efforts to...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • switzerland
    • environmental--policy
    • environmental---history
    • historical-carthography
    • ecology
    • wetlands
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees and...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • XLS
    • TXT
    • fractional-snow
    • forest
    • shortwave-radiation
    • longwave-radiation
    • shading
  • Backward Trajectories

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    Education, culture and sport

    Backward trajectories were calculated from two positions: Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.85361, LAT: 46.83551) and Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.80646 LAT: 46.83304) for the time period February 2...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • complex-topopgraphy
    • backward-trajectories
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • atmospheric-dynamics
    • cosmo
    • raclets
    • alps
  • Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the output and reference data published in the paper "Automated snow avalanche release area delineation - validation of existing algorithms and proposition of...

    Last updated: January 17, 2024

    • ZIP
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • snow
    • ramms
    • avalanche
    • release
    • hazard-mapping
  • Data on interaction diversity in urban gardens

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data supports the paper "Local and landscape factors shape alpha and beta trophic interaction diversity in urban gardens". It provides: (1) the host-natural enemy interaction...

    Last updated: April 18, 2025

    • CSV
    • OCTET
    • TXT
    • XLS
    • urban-ecosystems
    • food-webs
    • wasps
    • trap-nest
    • urban-ecology
    • management-intensity
    • host-enemy-interactions
    • hymenoptera
    • urbanization
    • cavity-nesting
    • zurich
    • bees
  • Automated detection of invasive alien plants along highways

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    Education, culture and sport

    Transport infrastructure such as highways are important corridors for the spread of invasive species. In this project, an automated detection and mapping of **two invasive...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • biological-invasions
    • automatic-detection
    • computer-vision
    • plants
    • artificial-intelligence
    • invasive-species
  • European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

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    Education, culture and sport

    The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • HTML
    • PDF
    • XLS
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • water-equivalent-of-the-snow-cover
    • spatial-distribution-of-snow-observations-in-europe
    • harmonisation-of-snow-measurements
    • snow-measurement-methods
    • cost-action-es1404-harmosnow
    • snow-depth
  • Nuclear microsatellite genotypes of the butterfly Melanargia galathea

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    Education, culture and sport

    Individual genotypes assessed at six nuclear microsatellite loci (two alleles per locus) for individuals of the butterfly Melanargia galathea (Marbled white) that were collected...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • genetic-structure
    • monitoring
    • melanargia-galathea
    • genetic-diversity
    • conservation-genetics
  • Faktenblätter und Leitfaden fĂĽr Hochwasserschätzmethoden in der Praxis

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    Education, culture and sport

    (English version below) Ziel dieser Faktenblätter ist es Informationen zu den Schätzmethoden, Hinweise zur Parametrisierung und eine grobe Einschätzung der Güte der Resultate in...

    Last updated: December 6, 2023

    • PDF
    • estimation-methods
    • decision-making
    • engineering
    • flood
    • hydrology
  • CH-POA300 -- Hourly Plane-of-Array Solar Irradiance at High Resolution for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    CH-POA300 is a dataset of hourly solar irradiance maps projected onto tilted surfaces (analogous to monofacial solar panels).

    • Spatial resolution: 300 m
    • Coverage:...

    Last updated: September 10, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • alpine-pv
    • plane-of-array
    • rooftop-pv
    • speed2zero
    • agri-pv
    • sweet-edge
    • solar-irradiance
  • Reproducibility dataset for CRYOWRF validation

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains data and scripts for "CRYOWRF - a validation and the effect of blowing snow on the Antarctic SMB" (Gerber et al., submitted).

    • Simulation_setup: Namelists...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • reproducibility
    • antarctica
    • blowing-snow
    • cryowrf
    • surface-mass-balance
  • Spatial factors shape taxonomic and functional beta-diversity in water-filled tree holes in different biogeographical regions

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    Education, culture and sport

    These datasets and code support research on the community assemblage of aquatic macroinvertebrates in ephemeral microhabitats, specifically water-filled tree holes (WTH), in three...

    Last updated: July 15, 2025

    • CSV
    • OCTET
    • XLS
    • beta-diversity
    • functional-diversity
    • water-filled-tree-holes
    • metacommunity
    • environmental-factors
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • community-assembly
    • spatial-factors
  • LWF-Tea bag sites

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    Education, culture and sport

    Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for the transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in the decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • CSV
    • litter
    • modeling
    • verification
    • carbon
    • roiboos
    • forest
    • tea-bag
    • decomposition
    • green-tea
  • Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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    Education, culture and sport

    The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript (doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822).

    Manuscript...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TXT
    • sediment-transport
    • mars
    • erosion
    • snow
    • model
  • Data interactive avalanche segmentation

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    Education, culture and sport

    Images and corresponding avalanche annotations used for interactive avalanche segmentation: SLF train, vali and test WebNew GroundPic UserPic UIBK dataset: List of images...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • deep-learning
    • avalanche
    • interactive
    • snow
    • segmentation
  • Tree-ring laser ablation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the values of several chemical elements (Mg, Al, Si, S, K, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Sr, Tl, Pb, Bi) measured in the latewood of tree rings of...

    Last updated: March 31, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • laser-ablation
    • tree-rings
    • dendrochronology
    • dendrochemistry
    • air-pollution