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451 datasets found

  • European Beech tree-ring dataset 1952-2020

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the raw ring-width and climate data (1952-2020), as well as the R code to run the model and the model output used in the research article "No future growth...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • OCTET
    • dendrochronology
    • dendroecology
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • tree-ring
    • beech
    • network-analysis
  • Snow Drift Station - Micro Rain Radar

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The instrument (MRR, Metek) was mounted at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) at a height of 1 m above snow surface (at the beginning of the campaign) with an orientation of 22°...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • raclets
    • rain
    • snow
    • radar
    • mountain
    • precipitation
  • Expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, 2016/2017

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the data acquired during the expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station in December 2016 and January 2017. The dataset consits of meterorological...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • snowmicropen
    • meteorological-data
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • mass-flux
    • drifting-snow
    • antarctica
  • Alpthal, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 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: September 28, 2020

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • meteo
    • temperature
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • meteorology
    • precipitation
    • climate-change
  • FSM2trans code

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the FORTRAN code of the FSM2trans model version used in the paper: Quéno et al., Snow redistribution in an intermediate-complexity snow hydrology modelling...

    Last updated: August 9, 2024

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • avalanche
    • source-code
    • snowdrift
    • snow-modelling
    • snowpack
  • eemma.R, an R script for Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The R script eemma.R, which implements Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis (EEMMA) to estimate source fractions in mixtures, exploiting information contained in time-series...

    Last updated: June 12, 2023

    • TXT
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • OCTET
    • end-member-mixing-analysis
    • tracers
    • stable-isotopes
    • mixing-models
    • eemma
    • emma
  • Multiple realizations of daily snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation projections for mid- and late-century

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains for three variables (snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation) 50 realizations of current and future climate periods for two time...

    Last updated: June 2, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • natural-climate-variability
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • rain-on-snow
    • cryosphere
    • uncertainty
    • climate-change-impact
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland since 1936-1937

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • CSV
    • avalanche-accidents
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
  • Escalating effects of multiple perturbations on soil functionality

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Soil chemical and biological properties of soils affected by 10 different perturbations related with global change, applied individually or in combination. Greenhouse experiment....

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • soil
    • pesticide
    • land-use
    • soil-biodiversity
    • drought
    • soil-nutrients
    • heatwave
  • Debris flow observation at Illgraben 2024: Event Data 15 June / 21 June

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains measurements from two debris flows recorded in 2024 at the Illgraben debris-flow observatory in Switzerland. The first debris flow was recorded on 15 June...

    Last updated: August 22, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • rainfall
    • surge-waves
    • radar
    • illgraben
    • debris-flow
  • intratrait

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across...

    Last updated: September 26, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • elevation-range
    • elevation-gradient
    • cold-adapted-plants
    • neighbour-interactions
    • climate-change
    • plant-traits