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151 datasets found

  • Spatial factors shape taxonomic and functional beta-diversity in water-filled tree holes in different biogeographical regions

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    These datasets and code support research on the community assemblage of aquatic macroinvertebrates in ephemeral microhabitats, specifically water-filled tree holes (WTH), in three...

    Last updated: November 26, 2025

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    • beta-diversity
    • community-assembly
    • environmental-factors
    • functional-diversity
    • metacommunity
    • spatial-factors
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • water-filled-tree-holes
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Schürlialp

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    The data was collected on 16.04.2021 and on 28.05.2021 with a Wingtra Gen II and a Sony RX1 II RGB sensor to obtain snow depth and distribution data. Following the data collection,...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

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    • drone-data
    • dsm
    • orthophoto
    • photogrammetry
    • uav
    • wingtra
  • Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980-2099 derived from the 50 member CRCM5-LE

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    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
    • climate-change
    • climate-indicators
    • europe
    • european-alps
    • fire
    • forest-fire
    • indicator-values
    • meteorological-data
    • mountains
  • WFJ_MOD: Meteorological and snowpack measurements from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Dataset of meteorological and snowpack measurements from the automatic weather station at Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, suitable for driving snowpack models. The dataset...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • air-temperature
    • humidity
    • longwave-radiation
    • precipitation-amount
    • shortwave-radiation
    • snow-depth
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • wind-direction
    • wind-speed
  • Community structure, life-history traits and performance traits of urban cavity-nesting bees annd wasps

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    Background Urban ecosystems are associated with socio-ecological conditions that can filter and promote taxa. However, the strength of the effect of ecological filtering on...

    Last updated: April 29, 2025

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    • bees
    • cavity-nesting
    • cities
    • hymennoptera
    • hymenoptera
    • life-history-traits
    • natural-enemies
    • performance-traits
    • richness
    • urban-ecology
    • urbanization
    • wasps
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download with SwissGeoDownloader

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

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • HTML
    • cable-yarding
    • digital-elevation-model
    • digital-planning
    • geoinformation-system
    • open-source
    • qgis-plugin
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geo-downloader
    • swiss-geodata
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: Merge DTM tiles

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    In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. In this tutorial video, we show how to merge multiple DTM...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • HTML
    • cable-yarding
    • digital-elevation-model
    • digital-planning
    • geodata-processing
    • geoinformation-system
    • open-source
    • qgis-plugin
    • raster-processing
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geodata
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: Load WMS layers as background maps

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    In order to digitally plan a cable line using the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’, maps with various background information are helpful. In this tutorial we show you how to obtain maps...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • HTML
    • cable-yarding
    • digital-elevation-model
    • digital-planning
    • geoinformation-system
    • open-source
    • qgis-plugin
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geodata
    • wms-data
  • GEM2: Meteorological and snow station at Gemsstock (3021 m asl), Canton Uri, Switzerland

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    Meteorological station at Gemstock (3021 m asl) in Canton Uri. The station includes in/out LW/SW and a snow height sensor.

    Data from this station is managed by the permos.ch...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • gemstock
    • longwave-radiation
    • meteo-station
    • shortwave-radiation
    • snow-height
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014

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    Overview

    The CH2014-Impacts initiative is a concerted national effort to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively, drawing on the scientific resources...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

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    • ch2011
    • ch2014
    • climate-change
    • snow-depth
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • Data for the publication "Secondary ice production processes in wintertime alpine mixed-phase clouds"

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    This repository contains all WRF model outputs and observational data sets used for the paper: Georgakaki, P., Sotiropoulou, G., Vignon, É., Billault-Roux, A.-C., Berne, A., and...

    Last updated: December 18, 2025

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    • blowing-snow
    • ice-crystal-number-concentration
    • ice-water-content
    • jungfraujoch
    • liquid-water-content
    • secondary-ice-production
    • swiss-alps
    • wrf