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154 datasets found

  • 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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    • atlantic-ocean
    • actinopterygii
    • barcoding
    • environmental-dna
    • mitochondrial-dna
    • 12s
    • teleo-primers
  • High resolution sea ice surface topography from the SIPEX-2 expedition, East Antarctica, 2012

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    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

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    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • sea-ice
    • tls
    • sea-ice-elevation
    • polar
  • 2013-2020 gas exchange at Pfynwald

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    Gas exchange was measured on control, irrigated and irrigation-stop trees at the irrigation experiment Pfynwald, during the years 2013, 2014, 2016-2020. The measurement campaigns...

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

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    • acclimation
    • drought
    • gas-exchange
    • fluorescence
    • photosynthesis
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • vpd
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

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    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

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    • gps
    • swe
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • lwc
    • gnss
    • snow
    • liquid-water-content
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download from swisstopo website

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    In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. As an alternative to using the ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’...

    Last updated: August 30, 2022

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    • cable-yarding
    • digital-elevation-model
    • open-source
    • seilaplan
    • qgis-plugin
    • swisstopo
    • geoinformation-software
    • digital-planning
    • swiss-geodata
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Senegal Casamance 2018

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    Monitoring fish diversity through eDNA metabarcoding along the Casamance river In 2018, water samples were collected in 13 locations along the Casamance in Senegal. Samples were...

    Last updated: July 10, 2025

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    • metabarcoding
    • senegal
    • edna
    • teleo
    • fish
  • Greenland Climate Network (GC-Net) Data

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    In Memory of Dr. Konrad (Koni) Steffen

    Update October 2022: The GC-Net is kindly continued by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). Starting...

    Last updated: March 27, 2025

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    • greenland
    • aws
    • climate
    • net-radiation
    • air-temperature
    • automatic-weather-station
  • 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

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    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • precipitation
    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • par
  • Expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, 2016/2017

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    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

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    • 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

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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

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    • 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

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    • 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

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    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

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    • natural-climate-variability
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • rain-on-snow
    • cryosphere
    • uncertainty
    • climate-change-impact
  • Debris flow observation at Illgraben 2024: Event Data 15 June / 21 June

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    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

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    • rainfall
    • surge-waves
    • radar
    • illgraben
    • debris-flow