261 datasets found

  • Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

    • XLS
    • avalanche-size
    • snowpack-model
    • natural-avalanches
    • machine-learning
    • avalanche
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Latschuelfurgga

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To map and assess snow depth on different dates, 9 flights were conducted in the winter season of 2020/21 at the Latschüelfurgga in Davos. The data was captured with a Sony RX1R II...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

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    • snow-depth-mapping
    • dsm
    • wingtra
    • uav
    • drone-data
    • orthophoto
    • photogrammetry
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland since 1937

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    Education, culture and sport

    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-fatalities
  • Snow Drift Station - Micro Rain Radar

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    The instrument (MRR, Metek) was mounted at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) at a height of 1 m above snow surface (at the beginning of the campaign) with an orientation of 22°...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • ZIP
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    • rain
    • mountain
    • radar
    • raclets
    • snow
    • precipitation
  • Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for Forest Accessibility and Wood Harvesting at FOSS4G2019

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Europe...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

    • TIFF
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • PNG
    • seilaplan
    • openstreetmap
    • qgis
    • forest
    • accessible-forest
    • geoprocessing
  • Number of natural hazard fatalities per year in Switzerland since 1946

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the number of fatalities due to flood, debris flow, landslide, rockfall, windstorm, lightning, ice avalanche, earthquake and other processes like roof...

    Last updated: October 7, 2022

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    • rockfall-fatalities
    • natural-hazard-fatalities
    • ice-avalanche-fatalities
    • lightning-fatalities
    • flood-fatalities
    • earthquake-fatalities
    • windstorm-fatalities
    • landslide-fatalities
    • debris-flow-fatalities
  • Data set on snow instability

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    These data on snow instability include three data subsets that were analyzed and the results published by Reuter and Schweizer (2018) who suggest a novel framework on how to...

    Last updated: February 2, 2020

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    • slab-tensile-support
    • slab
    • weak-layer
    • rutschblock
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • crack-propagation
    • failure-initiation
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • propgatoin-saw-test
  • Stable water isotopes in precipitation and streamflow at Plynlimon, Wales, UK

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    The data base contains timeseries of stable water isotopes in precipitation and streamflow at Plynlimon, Wales, UK. One data set contains weekly stable water isotope data from the...

    Last updated: May 27, 2020

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    • deuterium
    • precipitation
    • catchment
    • streamflow
    • plynlimon
    • chloride
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • tracer
  • Othmarsingen, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

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    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
    • par
    • temperature
    • meteorology
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • wind-speed
    • climate-change
  • 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

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    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • dispersal
    • ecology
    • traits
    • biodiversity
    • reef-fish
  • Celerina, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    Education, culture and sport

    High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises...

    Last updated: September 28, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • PDF
    • precipitation
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
    • meteo
    • par
    • long-term
    • relative-humidity
    • temperature
  • Above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation

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    Education, culture and sport

    Despite the common role of above- and below-ground herbivore communities in mediating ecosystem functioning, our understanding of the variation of species communities along natural...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • TXT
    • herbivores-communities
    • plant-herbivore-interactions
    • community-indices
    • environmental-gradients
    • elevation
    • alps
    • functional-traits
  • Swiss FluxNet Site Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss FluxNet Site Davos is a managed subalpine evergreen forest, located on the Seehorn mountain near Davos in the Swiss Alps. The site is dominated by Norway spruce. The...

    Last updated: August 24, 2023

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    • forest
    • eddy-covariance
    • flux
    • icos
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteorological-measurements
    • greenhouse-gas
    • swiss-fluxnet
  • Long-term afforestation experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    The Stillberg ecological treeline research site in the Swiss Alps was established in 1975, with the aim to develop ecologically, technically, and...

    Last updated: September 8, 2023

    • ZIP
    • mountain-forest
    • treeline
    • long-term-experiment
    • afforestation
    • stillberg
  • Experts survey protective forest and combined extremes in Val Mesolcina

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: October 2, 2023

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    • XLS
    • bark-beetles
    • protection-forest
    • compound-events
    • extreme-events
    • forest-fire
    • natural-hazards
    • drought
    • protective-effect
  • Multiple realizations of daily snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation projections for mid- and late-century

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    The dataset contains for three variables (snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation) 50 realizations of current and future climate periods for two time...

    Last updated: August 10, 2022

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    • snow-water-equivalent
    • uncertainty
    • rain-on-snow
    • climate-change-impact
    • natural-climate-variability
    • cryosphere
  • Glide-snow avalanche activity on Dorfberg, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the processed data of the glide-snow avalanche activity and dynamics on Dorfberg (Davos, Switzerland) covering seasons 2008/09 to 2021/22. This dataset was...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • time-lapse-photography
    • snowpack-simulation
  • Radiosondes

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    Education, culture and sport

    Radiosondes (Windsond, Sparv Embedded AB) were started in Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) to report height profiles of pressure, relative humidity and temperature at...

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • ZIP
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
    • wind
    • raclets
    • holoballoon
    • pressure
    • wind-direction
    • radiosonde
  • Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps (1969/1970 - 2014/2015)

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    Education, culture and sport

    During the last 45 years, about 100 people lost their lives in avalanches in the European Alps each year. Avalanche fatalities in settlements and on transportation corridors have...

    Last updated: November 3, 2020

    • TXT
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-accident
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • long-term-trends
    • avalanche-statistics
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

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    Education, culture and sport

    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

    Last updated: May 20, 2020

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    • PDF
    • hydrology
    • snowfall
    • snow
    • climate-change-impacts
    • water-cycle