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The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research is concerned with the use, development and protection of natural and urban spaces. The focus of our research is on solving problems to do with the responsible use of landscapes and forests and a prudent approach to natural hazards, especially those common in mountainous countries. WSL occupies a leading position internationally in these research areas. We also provide groundwork for sustainable environmental policies in Switzerland.

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Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain

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This is a technical documentation of the procedure to run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over complex alpine terrain using Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling...

Last updated: August 29, 2022
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- numerical-simulation
- complex-terrain
- high-resolution
- cosmo-wrf
- meteoswiss
CHELSA-TraCE21k: Downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the last glacial maximum

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High resolution, downscaled climate model data are used in a wide variety of applications in environmental sciences. Here we present the CHELSA-TraCE21k downscaling algorithm to...

Last updated: August 26, 2025
- GeoTIFF
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- paleo-climate
- glaciers
- last-glacial-maximum
- orography
- precipitation
- air-temperature
Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and...

Last updated: July 17, 2025
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- snow
- metamorphism
- heterogeneous
- ozone
- brine
- arctic
- laboratory-study
- reaction
- solution
- chemistry
- alpine
- antarctica
- interface
Visp, 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: December 3, 2019
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- CSV
- SERVICE
- par
- temperature
- long-term
- relative-humidity
- wind-speed
- meteo
- swiss-forest-lab
- climate-change
- meteorology
- precipitation
Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency

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The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain...

Last updated: January 31, 2022
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- SERVICE
- childhood
- recreational-activities
- teenagers
- adolescents
- forest
Data set of: Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to measure, explain, and predict: some practical recommendations for determining plant water sources

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The following two tables contain information about the data sources of the values reported in Table 1 and 2 in the paper “Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to...

Last updated: February 26, 2025
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- ecohydrology
- uncertainties
- endmember-mixing-models
- plant-water-uptake
- root-zone
- review
- stable-water-isotopes
Nationalpark, 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: December 3, 2019
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- CSV
- PDF
- meteorology
- precipitation
- par
- relative-humidity
- long-term
- climate-change
- meteo
- swiss-forest-lab
- temperature
- wind-speed
European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

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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
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- 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
Faktenblätter und Leitfaden für Hochwasserschätzmethoden in der Praxis

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

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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
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- alpine-pv
- plane-of-array
- rooftop-pv
- speed2zero
- agri-pv
- sweet-edge
- solar-irradiance
ATLFISHREF A 12S mitochondrial reference dataset for metabarcoding Atlantic Fishes frequently caught during scientific surveys in the Bay of Biscay

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The global biodiversity crisis driven by anthropogenic pressures significantly threatens marine ecosystems functioning. The rate of climate change and the impacts of anthropogenic...

Last updated: December 2, 2024
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- CSV
- PDF
- atlantic-ocean
- actinopterygii
- barcoding
- environmental-dna
- mitochondrial-dna
- 12s
- teleo-primers
ERRA -- an R script for Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis

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ERRA is a data-driven, nonparametric, model-independent method for quantifying rainfall-runoff relationships across a spectrum of time lags, in systems that may be nonlinear,...

Last updated: May 24, 2025
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- nonstationarity
- ecohydrology
- streamflow
- precipitation
- time-series
- nonlinear-deconvolution
- rainfall-runoff-modelling
- hydrology
Biogas from animal manure in Switzerland

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Aim of this white paper is to provide decision-makers, administrations and stakeholders with the most current research findings in order to promote the optimal use of bioenergy...

Last updated: January 7, 2022
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- biogas
- switzerland
- review
- bioenergy
- manure
Neunkirch, 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: December 3, 2019
- SERVICE
- CSV
- PDF
- meteorology
- temperature
- relative-humidity
- meteo
- precipitation
- climate-change
- long-term
- swiss-forest-lab
- wind-speed
- par
Snow Drift Station - Micro Rain Radar

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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
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- raclets
- rain
- snow
- radar
- mountain
- precipitation
Alpthal, 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
- CSV
- SERVICE
- PDF
- meteo
- temperature
- long-term
- swiss-forest-lab
- wind-speed
- par
- relative-humidity
- meteorology
- precipitation
- climate-change
eemma.R, an R script for Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis

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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

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