18 datasets found

  • Data for: Understanding dominant controls on streamflow spatial variability to set-up a semi-distributed hydrological model: the case study of the Thur catchment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • thur-catchment
    • spatial-variability
    • streamflow
    • hydrology
    • modeling
  • Bats and nocturnal insects in urban green areas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Animal biodiversity in cities is generally expected to be uniformly reduced, but recent studies show that this is modulated by the composition and configuration of Urban Green...

    Last updated: December 6, 2021

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    • nocturnal-fauna
    • antwerp
    • chiroptera
    • zurich
    • flying-arthropods
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urbanisation
    • paris
  • 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

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    • energy-balance
    • mass-balance
    • snow-modelling
    • upscaling
    • forest-canopy
  • Carabid beetles in forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types.

    Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract...

    Last updated: November 27, 2019

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    • insects
    • running-beetles
    • trapping
    • coleoptera
    • carabidae
    • forest
    • arthropoda
  • Hydraulic resistance of pores in porous media using DNS of laminar flow

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    Education, culture and sport

    Included are three direct numerical simulations results of Stokes flow in three heterogeneous porous media obtained with OpenFoam simulations. In addition we include three data...

    Last updated: September 16, 2021

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    • laminar-flow
    • heterogeneous-porous-media
    • pore-shape-factors
    • local-hydraulic-resistance
    • permeability
  • Snow climate indicators derived from parallel manual snow measurements

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data set consisting of snow climate indicators derived from parallel manual snow measurements in Switzerland.

    Last updated: February 4, 2022

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    • SERVICE
    • snow-onset-and-disappearance-dates
    • snow-height
    • snow-depth
    • parallel-measurements
    • climate-indicators
  • Crack propagation speeds in weak snowpack layers from three events: PST, whumpf and slab avalanche

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    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

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    • dynamic-crack-propagation
    • weak-layer
    • whumpf
    • crack-speed
    • propagation-saw-test
    • slab-avalanche
    • snow
  • Photogrammetric snow depth maps from satellite-, airplane-, UAS and terrestrial platforms from the Davos region (Switzerland)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set contains the produced snow depth maps as well as the reference data set (manual and snow pole measurements) from our paper "Intercomparison of photogrammetric...

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

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    • TIFF
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    • uas
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • photogrammetry
    • airplane
    • satellite
    • snow-depth
    • terrestrial
  • 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

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    • ZIP
    • meteo-station
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • swiss-alps
    • ground-temperature
    • climate-change-impact
  • ATREE Q-methodology statement sorts on forest clearances offsetting in the forest

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    In Novdember 2019 about 19 experts on forest surface protection and forest clearances were invited to a workshop in order to discuss policy design and implementation problems...

    Last updated: February 9, 2022

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    • forest-clearances
    • reafforestation
    • atree
    • offsetting
    • nature-conservation
    • q-methodology
  • Scolytidae

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    Education, culture and sport

    Scolytidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (29.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types. Data are provided on request to...

    Last updated: January 9, 2020

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    • saproxylic-insects
    • biodiversity
    • dead-wood
    • coleoptera
    • forest
    • bark-beetles
  • WFJ_RHOSSA: Multi-instrument stratigraphy data for the seasonal evolution of an alpine snowpack

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    The WFJ_RHOSSA dataset contains multi-instrument, multi-resolution snow stratigraphy measurements for the seasonal evolution of the snowpack from the Weissfluhjoch research site,...

    Last updated: August 11, 2020

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    • specific-surface-area
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snowmicropen
    • density
    • microstructure
  • The origin of urban communities: from the regional species pool to community assemblages in city

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    Education, culture and sport

    Carabid beetle and wild bee occurrences in the city of Zurich, Switzerland.

    Dataset available upon request (An agreement between the data provider and the data recipient is...

    Last updated: February 28, 2023

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    • trait
    • urbanization
    • bettergardens
    • species-composition
    • wild-bee
    • functional-traits
    • niche
    • diversity
    • species
    • functional
    • ground-beetles
    • ground-beetle
    • urban-ecology
    • garden
    • community-assembly
    • ecology
    • functional-diversity
    • bettergarden
    • allotment
    • composition
    • niche-breadth
    • gardens
    • wild-bees
    • allotments
    • environmental-heterogeneity
  • Plant-Orthoptera trophic networks (Lif3web projet)

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    Education, culture and sport

    The study of ecological networks along environmental gradients has so far been limited by the difficulty of collecting large-scale dataset of comparable interactions. Here, we...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

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    • trophic-networks
    • plant-insect-interaction
    • elevation
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • swiss-alps
  • Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava

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    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

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    • ZIP
    • acceleration
    • gnss
    • in-situ
    • rockfall
    • lying-deadwood
    • induced-rockfall
    • gyroscope
    • deposition-points
    • forest
  • Distribution maps of common woody species for Swiss forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    **We used Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) data to model the potential distribution of the most common woody species for the forested area...

    Last updated: July 13, 2021

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    • switzerland
    • lfi
    • woody-species
    • mogli
    • sdm
  • Hymenoptera

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    Education, culture and sport

    Hymenopteran data from all historic up to the recent projects (29.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various standardized methods in landscapes of different types.

    Data are provided...

    Last updated: February 8, 2021

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    • SERVICE
    • hymenoptera
    • urban
    • hautfluger
    • arthropoda
    • agricultural
    • forests
  • Hillshade for Vegetation Height Model NFI

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    Hillshade of the digital surface model (DSM), calculated from digital aerial stereo images. The image data was acquired by the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. The...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • digital-surface-model
    • 3d
    • point-cloud
    • image-matching
    • photogrammety