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451 datasets found

  • A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This python code uses the Finite Element library FEniCS (via docker) to solve the one dimensional partial differential equations for heat and mass transfer in snow. The results are...

    Last updated: February 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • python
    • numerical-model
    • vapor-transport
    • pattern-formation
    • snow
  • Optimizing renewable energy siting in the Swiss landscape

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This study examines the siting scenarios for renewable energy infrastructure (REI) in Switzerland, incorporating the external costs of ecosystem services and, innovatively, social...

    Last updated: February 26, 2024

    • ZIP
    • spatial-planning
    • energy
    • social-acceptance
    • optimization
    • ecosystem-services
    • wind-power
    • landscape
    • photovoltaic
    • marxan
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2021

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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 “Impérial...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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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    • OCTET
    • HTML
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • landscape
    • conservation
    • occupancy-models
    • connectivity
    • wetlands
    • amphibians
  • Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial...

    Last updated: December 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • land-dynamics
    • austin
    • planning
    • urban-land-use
    • driving-factors
  • Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • PNG
    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • 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

    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

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    • CSV
    • PDF
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • temperature
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
  • Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps (1969/1970 - 2014/2015)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    During the last 45 years, about 100 people lost their lives in avalanches in the European Alps each year. Avalanche fatalities in settlements and on transportation corridors have...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • TXT
    • avalanche-accident
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • long-term-trends
    • avalanche-statistics
  • Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

    • XLS
    • avalanche-size
    • avalanche
    • machine-learning
    • snowpack-model
    • natural-avalanches
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • fish-composition
    • teleo
    • actinopterygii
    • atlantic-region
    • bayofbiscay
    • metabarcoding
    • chondrichthyes
    • edna
  • Simulation parameters and outputs for towards a physically and microstructure-based equation for the evolution of the specific surface area in snow

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In the associated study [1], evolution of randomly generated bi-continuous microstructures that resemble real snow microstructures has been investigated. The control of the ambient...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ODS
    • fem
    • snow
    • numerical-simulations
    • microstructure
    • metamorphism
  • Data set on snow instability

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    These data on snow instability include three data subsets that were analyzed and the results published by Reuter and Schweizer (2018) who suggest a novel framework on how to...

    Last updated: February 2, 2020

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    • PDF
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • snow-avalanche
    • propgatoin-saw-test
    • slab-tensile-support
    • crack-propagation
    • weak-layer
    • rutschblock
    • slab
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • failure-initiation
  • Environmental DNA Marine Curacao 2020

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    Education, culture and sport

    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
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

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    Education, culture and sport

    These data were used to drive and evaluate Jules Investigation Model (JIM) snow simulations. The data provided are the forcing data used for the "deterministic" runs as described...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snow-simulation
    • jules-investigation-model
    • jim
    • snow
    • snow-depth
  • Nutrient sustainability in beech forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    With this study, our aim was to estimate the nutrient fluxes relevant for assessing nutrient sustainability as accurately as possible and to calculate nutrient balances for...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • sustainability
    • mass-balance
    • beech
    • soil
    • nutrient
  • Ceilometer Klosters

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • arctic
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • snow
    • antarctica
    • ice
  • DISCHMEX - High-resolution WRF simulations in complex alpine terrain and station measurements

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data presented here corresponds to the publication "Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO-WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • complex-terrain
    • precipitation-variability
    • snow-precipitation
    • orographic-precipitation
    • cosmo-wrf
  • Raw data - Artificial night light intensity modulates herbivory and phytochemistry in European beech

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Raw data on plant morphological traits, phytochemistry and herbivory that were analyzed in the study entitled: Artificial night light intensity modulates herbivory and...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

    • XLS
    • insect-herbivores
    • phytochemistry
    • light-pollution
    • alan
    • european-beech
  • Multi-Scale Prioritization framework for Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure Planning to Support Biodiversity: Data & Codes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • network-analysis
    • circuit-theory
    • ecological-corridors
    • urban-planning
    • biodiversity
    • ecosystem-services