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451 datasets found

  • 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
  • Above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Despite the common role of above- and below-ground herbivore communities in mediating ecosystem functioning, our understanding of the variation of species communities along natural...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • TXT
    • functional-traits
    • environmental-gradients
    • herbivores-communities
    • plant-herbivore-interactions
    • alps
    • elevation
    • community-indices
  • RoRCC

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "RoRCC" consists of simulation-based results on climate change impacts on Alpine RoR power production; it is based on 21 Swiss RoR power plants, with a total production...

    Last updated: August 11, 2022

    • XLS
    • environmental-flow
    • run-of-river-power-plants
    • hydropower
    • design-discharge
    • climate-change
  • Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980-2099 derived from the 50 member CRCM5-LE

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980 - 2099 as stated in the paper "Climate change impacts on regional fire weather in heterogeneous...

    Last updated: December 22, 2023

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    • climate-indicators
    • indicator-values
    • forest-fire
    • mountains
    • meteorological-data
    • climate
    • european-alps
    • fire
    • climate-change
    • europe
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

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    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

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    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

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    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
  • Data on the diet of urban and rural bumblebees

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data on the diet of urban and rural bumblebees individuals, Bombus lapidarius and Bombus pascuorum, collected in Switzerland (cantons Bern, Basel and ZĂźrich) obtained using...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • bern
    • bees
    • macronutrients
    • lad-use-chages
    • nutrient-intake
    • pollen-metabarcoding
    • foraging-behaviour
    • rural
    • basel
    • dietary-patterns
    • zurich
    • bombus-lapidarius
    • urban
    • bumblebees
    • bombus-pasquorum
  • 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

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    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
  • Teaser videos Swiss landscapes under climate change

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    Education, culture and sport

    Short videos showing scenarios of potential landscape development in a 4°C warmer climate for a Swiss mountain region and a region on the Swiss Plateau. The videos are in German or...

    Last updated: February 14, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • visualization
    • policy-action
    • landscape-change
    • climate-change
    • scenario
  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

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    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

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    • ZIP
    • field-test
    • trajectory
    • field-tests
    • field-data
    • natural-hazards
    • experiments
    • rockfall
    • experiment
    • mass-movements
  • Long-term meteorological and snow station at 2090 m a.s.l., Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland (1975 - present)

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    Education, culture and sport

    Important This EnviDat entry is outdated. The most recent, usable version of the data can be found under the new EnviDat entry "Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • PNG
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • wind
    • temperature-profiles
    • precipitation
    • radiation
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2021

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2021) At the end of October and the beginning of November 2021, we selected 18...

    Last updated: July 10, 2025

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    • actinopterygii
    • bay-biscay
    • metabarcoding
    • atlantic-region
    • teleo
    • chondrichthyes
    • edna
    • fish-composition
  • 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
  • AFF agricultural land change scenarios in Europe 2015-2050

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the spatial layers showing future land change pathways in Europe between 2015 and 2050, as simulated by the CLUMondo model and according to the Agricultural...

    Last updated: January 24, 2025

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • land-use-modelling
    • scenarios
    • pathways
    • agriculture
    • land-change
  • Tree species profiles from Sentinel-2 time series

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Tree species profiles from Sentinel-2 time series We obtained tree species-specific Sentinel-2 time series for the years 2019 and 2020. The Sentinel-2 time series originated from...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • switzerland
    • time-series
    • tree-species
  • Gao_Drought resistance and resilience of rhizosphere communities_13C-PLFA

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data of 13C-pulselabeling experiments in a young beech model ecosystem and a mature pine forest exposed to drought and rewetting. Data include microclimate during the experiment,...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • plfa
    • drought
    • c13-labeling
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • microbial-biomass
    • forest
  • Vertebrate and plant taxa recovered from 10 catchments in Vaud using an eDNA-metabarcoding approach

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results of a five-day field excursion which the extent to which eDNA sampling can capture the diversity of a region with highly heterogeneous habitat...

    Last updated: May 26, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • environmental-dna
    • biodiversity-assessment
    • spatial-ecology
    • biomonitoring
    • dna-metabarcoding
  • Swiss FluxNet Site Lägeren

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    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss FluxNet Site Lägeren is a managed mixed deciduous mountain forest located on the steep Lägeren mountain (NW of Zurich, Swiss Plateau). The forest is highly diverse,...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

    • HTML
    • SERVICE
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • swiss-fluxnet
    • flux
    • greenhouse-gas
    • forest
    • meteorological-measurements
    • eddy-covariance