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29 datasets found

  • Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat Concept

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the...

    Last updated: April 23, 2021

    • PDF
    • open-source
    • hpc
    • reproducibility
    • open-data
    • jupyter-notebooks
    • open-science
    • research-data-management
  • Nanoplastics in forests: Exploring the effects of nanoplastics on forest soils and tree physiology (NanoPlast)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The fate of plastic in the environment is of global concern, because its production recently has increased strongly and it accumulates in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems....

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

    • XLS
    • nanoplastic
    • polystyrene
    • 13c-labelling
    • forest-trees
    • uptake
  • Cloud Optimized Raster Encoding (CORE) format

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    DISCLAIMER: CORE is still in development. Interested parties are warmly invited to join common development, to comment, discuss, find bugs, etc.

    Acknowledgement: The CORE format...

    Last updated: November 8, 2022

    • HTML
    • SERVICE
    • raster
    • gridded-data
    • research-data-management
    • core
    • geodata
    • video-encoding
    • sentinel-2
    • time-series
  • Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper entitled “The role of spatial planning in land change: An assessment of urban planning and nature conservation...

    Last updated: January 6, 2022

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • SHP
    • basic-services
    • topography
    • spatial-modelling
    • forest-persistence
    • nature-conservation
    • urban-sprawl
    • planning-outcome
    • forest-gain
    • urban-compactness
    • urban-morphology
    • land-use-and-cover-change
    • built-up-classification
  • Land use/cover dynamics in Austin metropolitan area since 1992

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Zhao C, Weng Q, Hersperger A M. Characterizing the 3-D urban morphology transformation to understand urban-form...

    Last updated: February 7, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • urban-morphology
    • land-use
    • landscape
    • austin
    • land-dynamics
  • Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Cities are socio-ecological systems that filter and select species, thus establishing unique species assemblages and biotic interactions. Urban ecosystems can host richer wild bee...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • bettergardens
    • pollinator-experiment
    • zurich
    • urbanization
    • wild-bees
    • urban-biodiversity
    • city4bees
    • beekeeping
    • resource-availability
    • urban-ecosystems
    • honeybees
    • gardens
  • Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We modelled the global distribution of 730 amphibian, 1276 reptile, and 1961 mammal species globally as a function of current climate at a 0.5° spatial resolution using four...

    Last updated: November 9, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • generalized-linear-models
    • reptiles
    • random-forests
    • generalized-additive-models
    • iucn
    • species-distribution-models
    • sdm
    • chelsa
    • amphibians
    • climate-variablity
    • interannual-climate-variability
    • mammals
    • niche-models
    • range-maps
  • intratrait

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across...

    Last updated: September 26, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • elevation-range
    • plant-traits
    • cold-adapted-plants
    • elevation-gradient
    • neighbour-interactions
    • climate-change
  • MOSAIC Snow on Sea Ice Data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data accompanying David Wagners' Dissertation. Covers model results and various input from ALPINE3D and SNOWPACK adjusted for sea ice during MOSAiC.

    Last updated: March 12, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • drifting-and-blowing-snow
    • arctic-sea-ice
    • spatial-variability
    • snow-distribution
    • surface-mass-balance
  • Non-Binary Environmental Archive Data (NEAD) format

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Acknowledgement: The NEAD format includes NetCDF metadata and is proudly inspired by both SMET and NetCDF formats. NEAD is designed as a long-term data preservation and exchange...

    Last updated: February 28, 2023

    • HTML
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • nead
    • csv
    • metadata-convention
    • meteorological-data-format
    • research-data-management
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on: (1) spatial distribution of urban beekeeping (number of hives and number of beekeeping locations) in 14 Swiss cities (Geneva, Lausanne, Biel, Neuchatel, Basel, Zurich,...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • pollination
    • sustainability
    • urbanization
    • remote-sensing
    • honeybees
    • urban-biodiversity
  • Larval food composition of four wild bee species in five European cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Urbanization poses threats and opportunities for the biodiversity of wild bees. A main gap relates to the food preferences of wild bees in urban ecosystems, which usually harbour...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

    • CSV
    • hylaeus-communis
    • antwerp
    • urban-ecology
    • osmia-bicornis
    • zurich
    • poznan
    • osmia-cornuta
    • plant-pollinator-interactions
    • trap-nest
    • paris
    • chelostoma-florisomne
    • tartu
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • cavity-nesting-bees
  • Causal effect of LUP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Does zoning contain built-up land expansion? Causal evidence from Zhangzhou City, China.

    Research objective: Built-up land zoning is an imporatant policy measure of land...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • annual-effect
    • land-use-planning
    • land-use-change
    • psm-did
    • plan-evaluation
  • EnviDat Supports Open Science

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The article "EnviDat Supports Open Science" originally appeared in WSLintern No. 3 (2020), page 14-15 and it is republished here with permission from the WSLintern editorial team....

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

    • PDF
    • envidat
    • wsl
    • research-data-management
    • juypter-notebooks
    • open-science
  • Causal effect of MFOZ

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Closer to causality: How effective is spatial planning in governing built-up land expansion in Fujian Province, China?

    Research objective: The Major Function Oriented Zone...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • fujian-province
    • propensity-score-matching
    • built-up-land-change
    • selection-bias
    • causality
    • the-major-function-oriented-zone
  • Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial...

    Last updated: December 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • urban-land-use
    • planning
    • land-dynamics
    • driving-factors
    • austin
  • 3D_Snow_Models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types are...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • depth-hoar
    • snow-cast
    • new-snow
    • 3d-model
    • weak-layer
    • rounded-snow
    • snow
    • 3d-print
  • Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Overview We present GROUNDEYE, a new model of radiative transfer over mountainous terrain, which considers for the first time the forward scattering properties of snow. Embedded...

    Last updated: June 5, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • winter-energy-production
    • snow
    • photovoltaic
    • shortwave-radiation
    • albedo
  • Electrodermal Activity (EDA) of Bi-cultural Visitors In Virtual Park Settings

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data on EDA measurements of visitors with different cultural backgrounds in virtual urban park settings. The parks are a Persian garden (Shiraz, Iran) and...

    Last updated: December 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • urban-ecology
    • place-attachment
    • sense-of-place
    • electrodermal-activity
    • landscape
  • CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A multitude of physical and biological processes on which ecosystems and human societies depend are governed by climatic conditions. Understanding how these processes are altered...

    Last updated: September 21, 2022

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • relative-humidity
    • solar-radiation
    • temperature
    • growing-degree-days
    • growing-season-length
    • soil-water-balance
    • precipitation