18 datasets found

  • ALS-based snow depth and canopy height maps from flights in 2017 (Grisons, CH and Grand Mesa, CO)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes snow depth, canopy height and terrain elevation maps of forest stands in the Grisons (CH) and at Grand Mesa (CO,USA) derived from airborne lidar. Data were...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snow-distribution
    • canopy-height
    • snow-depth
    • airborne-laser-scanning
    • forest-structure
  • 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

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • chelsa
    • generalized-additive-models
    • sdm
    • interannual-climate-variability
    • niche-models
    • iucn
    • amphibians
    • climate-variablity
    • reptiles
    • range-maps
    • species-distribution-models
    • mammals
    • random-forests
    • generalized-linear-models
  • Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the SnowMicroPen (SMP) data from 38 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winters 2015/16...

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • wind-packing
    • smp
    • snowmicropen
    • wind-crust
    • snow
  • Data for: Understanding dominant controls on streamflow spatial variability to set-up a semi-distributed hydrological model: the case study of the Thur catchment

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    Education, culture and sport

    This study documents the development of a semi-distributed hydrological model aimed at reflecting the dominant controls on observed streamflow spatial variability. The process is...

    Last updated: April 22, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • hydrology
    • thur-catchment
    • spatial-variability
    • streamflow
    • modeling
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

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    Education, culture and sport

    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,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • traits
    • biodiversity
    • ecology
    • reef-fish
    • dispersal
  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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    Education, culture and sport

    To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snowpack
    • avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • avalanche-forecast
  • Hydro-meteorological simulations for the period 1981-2018 for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset provides simulated 1) precipitation, 2) discharge, 3) soil moisture, and 4) low-flow simulations for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland for the period...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • soil-moisture
    • low-flow
    • precipitation
    • prevah
    • drought-2018
    • discharge
    • hydrological-simulations
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland. Typical snow profile measurements and observations are included (temperature, density, grain size,...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • weisfluhjoch
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • snow-density
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • Forest canopy structure data for radiation and snow modelling (CH/FIN)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains forest canopy structure data acquired in a spruce forest at Laret, Switzerland, and a pine forest at Sodankylä, Finland. Data include:

    • Hemispherical...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • forest-canopy
    • upscaling
    • energy-balance
    • snow-modelling
    • mass-balance
  • Crack propagation speeds in weak snowpack layers from three events: PST, whumpf and slab avalanche

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    Education, culture and sport

    For the release of a slab avalanche, crack propagation within a weak snowpack layer below a cohesive snow slab is required. As crack speed measurements can give insight into the...

    Last updated: October 12, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • weak-layer
    • dynamic-crack-propagation
    • crack-speed
    • propagation-saw-test
    • slab-avalanche
    • snow
    • whumpf
  • Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories in the Antarctic

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    Education, culture and sport

    Summary

    This data set contains Python programming code and modeled data discussed in a related research article. We developed a simple isotope model to study the drivers of the...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • evaporation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • antarctica
    • isotopic-distillation
    • snow-sublimation
    • backward-trajectories
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

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    Education, culture and sport

    These data were used to drive and evaluate Jules Investigation Model (JIM) snow simulations. The data provided are the forcing data used for the "deterministic" runs as described...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow-simulation
    • snow-depth
    • jim
  • WFJ_ICE_LAYERS: Multi-instrument data for monitoring deep ice layer formation in an alpine snowpack

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    Education, culture and sport

    The WFJ_ICE_LAYERS dataset contains multi-instrument snowpack measurements at high temporal resolution, which enable to monitor the formation of deep ice layers due to preferential...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • weissfluhjoch
    • water-front
    • snowmicropen
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-temperature
    • ice-layers
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

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    Education, culture and sport

    Stable water isotopes (δ18O) obtained from snow and ice samples of polar regions are used to reconstruct past climate variability, but heat and mass transport processes can affect...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow
    • 18o
    • stable-water-isotope
    • advection
    • metamorphism
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

    Last updated: March 24, 2022

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • catchment-data
    • snow-hydrology
    • rain-on-snow
    • snowpack
    • meteorological-data
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17....

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • wind-tunnel
    • snow
    • wind-crust
    • wind-packing
    • kinect
  • Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava

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    Education, culture and sport

    We performed an experimental trilogy of induced rockfall experiments in a spruce stand in Surava (CH) within (i) the original forest, (ii) after a logging job, resulting in lying...

    Last updated: July 21, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • lying-deadwood
    • forest
    • gyroscope
    • rockfall
    • deposition-points
    • in-situ
    • acceleration
    • gnss
    • induced-rockfall
  • Changes in climatology, snow cover and ground temperatures at high alpine locations in Switzerland (Bender et al. 2020)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes all data and simulation files presented in the publication: Bender et al. 2020. Changes in climatology, snow cover and ground temperatures at high alpine...

    Last updated: December 15, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • meteo-station
    • ground-temperature
    • climate-change-impact
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • swiss-alps