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290 datasets found

  • Causal effect of MFOZ

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Closer to causality: How effective is spatial planning in governing built-up land expansion in Fujian Province, China?

    Research objective: The Major Function Oriented Zone...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • selection-bias
    • causality
    • propensity-score-matching
    • fujian-province
    • the-major-function-oriented-zone
    • built-up-land-change
  • Monitoring of ash trees as part of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Programme

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In 2013, the Institute for Applied Plant Biology (IAP) started a monitoring programme to study the development and the spatial variation of the ash dieback disease with the aim to...

    Last updated: June 3, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • ash-dieback
    • forest
    • iap
    • monitoring
    • fraxinus
  • RIT2: Meteorological station at Ritigraben borehole site

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Meterological station at the Ritigraben permafrost borehole (RIT_0102) in canton Valais, Switzerland. The station is located at 2690 m asl on...

    Last updated: July 15, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • permafrost
    • permos
    • borehole
    • meteo-station
    • ritigraben
  • Digitizing historical plague

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For...

    Last updated: October 1, 2020

    • ZIP
    • plague-inventory
    • plague-outbreaks
    • plague-mapping
    • bubonic-plague
    • black-death
    • historical-plague
    • palaeo-epidemiology
    • yersinia-pestis
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: Load WMS layers as background maps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In order to digitally plan a cable line using the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’, maps with various background information are helpful. In this tutorial we show you how to obtain maps...

    Last updated: August 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • open-source
    • geoinformation-system
    • digital-elevation-model
    • wms-data
    • swiss-geodata
    • seilaplan
    • qgis-plugin
    • digital-planning
    • cable-yarding
  • 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

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • snowpack
    • avalanche-forecast
    • avalanche
    • snow
  • FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

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

    Last updated: September 8, 2023

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • HTML
    • soil-temperature
    • climate-change
    • experiment
    • vegetation
    • carbon-dioxide
    • stillberg
  • Cloud Optimized Raster Encoding (CORE) format

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    DISCLAIMER: CORE is still in development. Interested parties are warmly invited to join common development, to comment, discuss, find bugs, etc.

    Acknowledgement: The CORE format...

    Last updated: November 8, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • video-encoding
    • raster
    • geodata
    • sentinel-2
    • core
    • time-series
    • research-data-management
    • gridded-data
  • Bettlachstock, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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: December 3, 2019

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • relative-humidity
    • par
    • precipitation
    • temperature
    • meteo
    • long-term
    • wind-speed
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
  • eemma.R, an R script for Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The R script eemma.R, which implements Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis (EEMMA) to estimate source fractions in mixtures, exploiting information contained in time-series...

    Last updated: June 12, 2023

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • emma
    • mixing-models
    • eemma
    • end-member-mixing-analysis
    • stable-isotopes
    • tracers
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • TXT
    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • biodiversity
    • ecology
    • reef-fish
    • dispersal
    • traits
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • wind-tunnel
    • snow
    • wind-crust
    • kinect
    • wind-packing
  • CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A multitude of physical and biological processes on which ecosystems and human societies depend are governed by climatic conditions. Understanding how these processes are altered...

    Last updated: September 21, 2022

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • growing-season-length
    • growing-degree-days
    • soil-water-balance
    • temperature
    • precipitation
    • solar-radiation
    • relative-humidity
  • Electrodermal Activity (EDA) of Bi-cultural Visitors In Virtual Park Settings

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data on EDA measurements of visitors with different cultural backgrounds in virtual urban park settings. The parks are a Persian garden (Shiraz, Iran) and...

    Last updated: December 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • sense-of-place
    • urban-ecology
    • place-attachment
    • landscape
    • electrodermal-activity
  • Causal effect of LUP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Does zoning contain built-up land expansion? Causal evidence from Zhangzhou City, China.

    Research objective: Built-up land zoning is an imporatant policy measure of land...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • land-use-planning
    • plan-evaluation
    • land-use-change
    • annual-effect
    • psm-did
  • Wind tunnel measurement data of drifting snow and turbulent wind fluctuations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data correspond to the experiments presented and discussed in a paper regarding the interaction between turbulent wind fluctuations and snow saltation mass-fluxes (Paterna,...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • vertical-wind-motion
    • snow-depth
    • snow-cover
    • boundary-layer-winds
    • saltation
  • Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper entitled “The role of spatial planning in land change: An assessment of urban planning and nature conservation...

    Last updated: January 6, 2022

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • SHP
    • SERVICE
    • basic-services
    • forest-gain
    • topography
    • nature-conservation
    • spatial-modelling
    • planning-outcome
    • urban-morphology
    • urban-sprawl
    • urban-compactness
    • built-up-classification
    • land-use-and-cover-change
    • forest-persistence
  • Predicted cloud droplet numbers Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Cloud droplet properties were predicted between February 24 and March 8 2019 for the measurement site Davos Wolfgang (1630 m a.s.l., LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577). Droplet...

    Last updated: December 17, 2020

    • CSV
    • sigma-w
    • cloud-modeling
    • wolfgangpass
    • supersaturation
    • cloud-droplets
    • raclets
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

    Last updated: April 20, 2023

    • SHP
    • hazard-mapping
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • satellite
    • natural-hazard
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download with SwissGeoDownloader

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. The plugin ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’, which is available for...

    Last updated: August 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • open-source
    • swiss-geo-downloader
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geodata
    • qgis-plugin
    • cable-yarding
    • digital-planning
    • digital-elevation-model
    • geoinformation-system