Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL

CH-Kleinstwasserkraftwerke - ein schweizweiter Datensatz zu Kleinstwasserkraftwerken

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In der Schweiz werden Wasserkraftanlagen (WKA) mit einer Leistung von mehr als 300 kW systematisch erfasst und in der nationalen Wasserkraftstatistik (WASTA) zusammengetragen. Die...

Sample plot inventory data form the Parc Naturel du Jorat

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The Jorat is one of the largest continously forested areas in the Swiss Plateau. On a forested area of 778 ha, the Parc Naturel du Jorat (PNJ), a periurban parc, has been...

Spatio-temporal soil and local snow monitoring in a glide-snow avalanche prone slope above Davos Switzerland

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This dataset consists of spatio-temporal soil measurements and local snow measurements which were recorded to investigate glide-snow avalanche release in the Seewer Berg slope...

Data analysis toolkits

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These are condensed notes covering selected key points in data analysis and statistics. They were developed by James Kirchner for the course "Analysis of Environmental Data" at...

In-situ soil moisture measurements Napf-region

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In the context of landslide early warning research, soil moisture (e.g. volumetric soil water content and soil water potential) has been measured at six locations in the...

Swiss-wide survey on restorative places and road traffic noise

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This repository contains data related to the Swiss-wide survey of the RESTORE project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and...

Starter Kit for the TreeMig framework v1 for easy simulation of spatio-temporal forest dynamics

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Starter kit for the TreeMig framework that allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental...

Dataset on Cosmo-1 based Energy Potential in Swiss Alps

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This dataset consist of simulated hourly power production from an Enercon E82 Turbine at 100 m hub-height. It describes the hourly power output a 1MW turbine would produce in each...

UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers

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UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in the...

Vegetation Height Model NFI

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Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on stereo aerial images, acquired by the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. From the...

High resolution climate data for Europe

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High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present downscaled climate data for the...

Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and...

CHELSA-TraCE21k: Downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the last glacial maximum

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High resolution, downscaled climate model data are used in a wide variety of applications in environmental sciences. Here we present the CHELSA-TraCE21k downscaling algorithm to...

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:...

ERRA -- an R script for Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis

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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,...

FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

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Background information

High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas...

Processed permafrost borehole data (2394 m asl), Fluelapass A, Switzerland

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Processed ground temperature measurements at the Fluelapass permafrost borehole A (FLU_0102) in canton Graubunden, Switzerland. The borehole is located at 2394 m asl on a moderate...

Experts survey protective forest and combined extremes in Val Mesolcina

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This dataset contains the results of a case study analysing the potential impacts of a compound meteorological extreme event on the protective forest in the Val Mesolcina. These...

Psychophysiological effects of walking in forests and urban built environments with disparate road traffic noise exposure

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This repository contains data related to the field experiments of the RESTORE project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and...

Modeled and measured fluxes of latent and sensible heat and snow transport at S17 near Syowa in Antarctica

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This dataset supports a related publication (Sigmund et al., 2025) and contains

• results of four large-eddy simulations (LES) coupled to a Lagrangian model (LM) for snow...