Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL

Modeling snow failure with DEM

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This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

Saltation of cohesive granular materials

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The wind-driven saltation of sand and snow shapes dunes and ripples, generates dust emission, and erodes the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. Here, we use a model based on the...

Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain

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This is a technical documentation of the procedure to run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over complex alpine terrain using Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling...

Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant multifaceted diversity

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This dataset comprises a large array of ecological data for the European Alps:

(1) Current soil and climate predictors at various resolutions. (2) GBIF observations of the...

Data: Environmental drivers of eukaryotic plankton and fish biodiversity in an Arctic fjord

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This dataset contains the raw environmental DNA data associated with the publication Environmental drivers of eukaryotic plankton and fish biodiversity in an Arctic fjord in the...

Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

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This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

Terrestrial laser scans on Hammarryggen Ice Rise, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

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Surface topography maps (spatial extent: 400 m x 400 m) obtained at approximately 300 m from the top of the Hammarryggen Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, using a...

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

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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...

A grain-size driven transition in the deformation mechanism in slow snow compression

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We conducted consecutive loading-relaxation experiments at low strain rates to study the viscoplastic behavior of the intact ice matrix in snow. The experiments were conducted...

Soil property maps for the Swiss forest

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We used 2071 forest soil profiles to model a wide range of soil properties for the forested area of Switzerland. The spatial prediction is based on the principle of «digital soil...

snowBedFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian-Lagrangian solver for modelling snow transport

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snowBedFoam 1.0. is a snow transport solver implemented in the computational fluid dynamics software OpenFOAM. It is adapted from the standard multi-phase flow solver DPMFoam for...

Data on multi-year drought impacts on European beech in northern Switzerland

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This study investigated multi-year drought impacts on beech forests through a unique large-scale monitoring of 963 individual beech trees, which showed either premature leaf...

Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

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Preferential deposition of snow and dust over complex terrain is responsible for a wide range of environmental processes, and accounts for a significant source of uncertainty in...

Root-traits

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Fine-root traits of Scots pine in response to enhanced soil water availability deriving from long-term irrigation in the Pfynwald

Data_Fig.1.xlsx Fine-root biomass of the topsoil...

Multi-resolution CLM5 simulations across Switzerland

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This dataset contains Community Land Model 5 (CLM5) simulation output over the spatial extent of Switzerland at different resolutions and based on a range of input datasets. It...

FSM2trans code

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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...

How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

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We used five different atmospheric turbulence datasets from four test sites, with these sites showing differences in their topographical characteristics. We chose one typical...

Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)

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Dataset (Model input, snow distribution and validation) for the precipitation scaling paper, which should be cited along with the data set citation.

This data is useful for...

Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

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In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)

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Polygons of wet snow avalanches in the Davos area, as documented by the Swiss avalanche warning service. The georeferenced outlines of the avalanches contain both the release as...