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136 datasets found

  • Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland at 2090 m a.s.l.

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1850

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • Backward Trajectories

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • Automated detection of invasive alien plants along highways

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • CH-POA300 -- Hourly Plane-of-Array Solar Irradiance at High Resolution for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • Data interactive avalanche segmentation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • ATLFISHREF A 12S mitochondrial reference dataset for metabarcoding Atlantic Fishes frequently caught during scientific surveys in the Bay of Biscay

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • PDF
    • atlantic-ocean
    • actinopterygii
    • barcoding
    • environmental-dna
    • mitochondrial-dna
    • 12s
    • teleo-primers
  • ERRA -- an R script for Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • nonstationarity
    • ecohydrology
    • streamflow
    • precipitation
    • time-series
    • nonlinear-deconvolution
    • rainfall-runoff-modelling
    • hydrology
  • High resolution sea ice surface topography from the SIPEX-2 expedition, East Antarctica, 2012

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises of a post-processed set of terrestrial laser scans (TLS’s) of Antarctic sea ice obtained during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment-2 (SIPEX-2,...

    Last updated: August 20, 2025

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • sea-ice
    • tls
    • sea-ice-elevation
    • polar
  • COSMO-WRF Dataset for Swiss Alps Simulations in Gray-Zone Resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains simulation data for "Influence of Air Flow Features on Alpine Wind Energy Potential" (Kristianti et al., 2024). • The WRF_dia2702 and WRF_dia1103 folders...

    Last updated: April 23, 2024

    • ZIP
    • grayzone
    • wrf
    • numerical-simulation
    • cosmo-wrf
    • complex-terrain
  • Species distribution maps of Fagales and Pinales (GDPlants)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains 1957 distribution maps of species from Fagales and Pinales constructed based on a method integrating polygon mapping and SDMs (Lyu et al., 2022). To...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

    • ZIP
    • species-occurrence
    • pinales
    • species-distribution-model
    • fagales
    • species-richness
    • species-range-map
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at 4...

    Last updated: December 22, 2021

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • gps
    • swe
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • lwc
    • gnss
    • snow
    • liquid-water-content
  • 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
  • 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