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290 datasets found

  • Environmental layers for SDM simulations (GDPlants)

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains seven environmental layers (average annual temperature, aridity [annual precipitation divided by annual potential evapotranspiration], frost change frequency,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • sdms
    • soil
    • precipitation
    • ground-temperature
    • aridity
    • frost-change-velocity
  • Disdrometer Data Gotschnagrat

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    Education, culture and sport

    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was deployed at Gotschnagrat (LON: 9.849, LAT: 46.859) to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • raclets
    • precipitation
    • visibility
    • disdrometer
    • hydrometeors
  • Aerosol Data Weissfluhjoch

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    Aerosol properties were measured between February 8 and March 31 2019 at the measurement site Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.806475, LAT: 46.832964). Optical and aerodynamic particle...

    Last updated: March 6, 2022

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • ice-nucleation
    • raclets
    • aerosol
    • linda
    • inp
    • particles
  • DISCHMEX - High-resolution WRF simulations in complex alpine terrain and station measurements

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data presented here corresponds to the publication "Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO-WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • precipitation-variability
    • orographic-precipitation
    • cosmo-wrf
    • complex-terrain
    • snow-precipitation
  • RoRCC

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    The dataset "RoRCC" consists of simulation-based results on climate change impacts on Alpine RoR power production; it is based on 21 Swiss RoR power plants, with a total production...

    Last updated: August 11, 2022

    • XLS
    • hydropower
    • design-discharge
    • climate-change
    • environmental-flow
    • run-of-river-power-plants
  • Torymus sinensis local and regional early population dynamics in the Insubrian and Piedmont regions

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    This dataset contains the population evolution of a pest and its biocontrol agent in terms of presence proportion at gall level and absolute number of insects.

    The study area...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • pest-invasion
    • southern-switzerland
    • castanea-sativa
    • torymus-sinensis
    • dryocosmus-kuriphilus
    • population-evolution
    • biological-control
  • Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs

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    The dataset Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs provides estimates of current and future water supply, water demand, and storage volumes for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland. Water...

    Last updated: December 15, 2020

    • ZIP
    • reservoirs
    • water-demand
    • water-scarcity
    • water-supply
    • climate-change
  • Expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, 2016/2017

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    This dataset contains the data acquired during the expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station in December 2016 and January 2017. The dataset consits of meterorological...

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • mass-flux
    • antarctica
    • drifting-snow
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • snowmicropen
    • meteorological-data
  • Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

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    Laboratory experiments are presented on the phase change at the surface of sodium chloride – water mixtures at temperatures between 259 K and 240 K. High selectivity to the upper...

    Last updated: July 17, 2020

    • TXT
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • ice
    • snow
    • antarctica
    • arctic
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

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    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
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • kinect
    • wind-tunnel
    • snow
    • wind-packing
    • wind-crust
  • Weather Station Davos Wolfgang

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    The dataset contains weather parameters measured at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577).

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • CSV
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
    • raclets
    • pressure
    • weather
  • Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps (1969/1970 - 2014/2015)

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    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-statistics
    • long-term-trends
    • avalanche-fatalities
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

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    Education, culture and sport

    Here the updated versions of debrisInterMixing are provided for download. The first OpenFoam-compatible Version 2.3.x are available as supplement to v. Boetticher, A., Turowski, J....

    Last updated: March 24, 2020

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • hangmuren
    • barrier-impact-simulation
    • natural-hazard
    • interfoam
    • dberisintermixing
    • shallow-landslide
    • murgang
    • finite-volumes
    • debris-flow
  • ASRB_WFJVF: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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    Incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave 2 min radiation measurements at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos, CH. The experimental site at the Weissfluhjoch (WFJ, 46.83 N,...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

    • PDF
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • weisfluhjoch
    • longwave-radiation
    • radiation
    • davos
    • shortwave-radiation
  • Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    A rule-based algorithm (Schwieder et al., 2022) was used to produce annual maps for 2018–2021 of grassland-management events, i.e....

    Last updated: August 3, 2023

    • PNG
    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • management
    • use-intensity
    • mowing
    • sentinel-2
    • land-use
    • grassland
    • landsat
    • remote-sensing
  • Satellite avalanche mapping validation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    Validation points, validation area, ground truth coverage, SPOT 6 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-1 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-2 avalanche outlines, Davos avalanche mapping...

    Last updated: September 4, 2023

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • validation
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-hazard-mapping
    • satellite
  • Mountain Permafrost Hydrology

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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). In earlier reports such as the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2019

    • PDF
    • mass-movements
    • ice-rich-permafrost
    • permafrost-degradation
    • mountain-permafrost-hydrology
    • monitoring-techniques
    • climate-change-impacts
  • Land use projections and services for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data and scripts of publication:

    Madleina Gerecke, Oskar Hagen, Janine Bolliger, Anna M. Hersperger, Felix Kienast, Bronwyn Price, Loïc Pellissier (2019) Assessing potential...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • statistical-model
    • landscape-services
    • land-use
    • urbanization
    • land-use-change
    • modeling
    • switzerland
  • SnowMicroPen measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

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    SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Measurements were taken in the vicinity of the Belgium Princess Elisabeth Station...

    Last updated: June 21, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • snow-density
    • snowmicropen
    • antarctica
    • snow-density-profile
    • microstructure
  • 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

    • CSV
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • avalanche-accident-statistics