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290 datasets found

  • Saltation of cohesive granular materials

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    Education, culture and sport

    The wind-driven saltation of sand and snow shapes dunes and ripples, generates dust emission, and erodes the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. Here, we use a model based on the...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • sand
    • sediment
    • cohesion
    • saltation
    • wind
  • 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
    • ground-temperature
    • sdms
    • precipitation
    • aridity
    • frost-change-velocity
    • soil
  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    Risch, A. C.; Zimmermann, S.; Ochoa-Hueso, R.; Schütz, M.; Frey, B.; Firn, J....

    Last updated: August 13, 2020

    • XLS
    • soil-biology
    • soil-chemistry
    • grassland
    • mineralization
    • global
    • nutrient-network
    • worldwide
    • soil
  • An ice oxygen K-edge NEXAFS spectroscopy data set on gas-phase processing

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data are compiled that have been used to demonstrate the impact of high water partial pressure on X-ray absorption spectra of ice.

    Last updated: January 19, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ice
    • chemistry
    • laboratory-study
    • atmosphere
    • snow-atmosphere-interactions
  • Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the parallel application and the main results supporting the research article "Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion"...

    Last updated: December 8, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • drifting-snow
    • saltation
    • large-eddy-simulations
    • mixed-grain-transport
    • snow-cohesion
  • Ecosystem coupling and multifunctionality - exclosure experiment

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    Risch AC, Ochoa-Hueso R, van der Putten WH, Bump JK, Busse MD, Frey B,...

    Last updated: September 8, 2020

    • XLS
    • grassland
    • subalpine
    • invertebrates
    • exclusion
    • vertebrates
    • ecosystem-coupling
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • ecosystem-functions
    • swiss-national-park
    • grazing
  • Daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen and Independence Creeks, Sierra Nevada, USA

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    Education, culture and sport

    Hydrometerological and ecohydrological time series from Sagehen Creek and Independence Creek, Sierra Nevada, USA, illustrating hydrological responses to daily cycles in snowmelt...

    Last updated: June 16, 2020

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • streamflow
    • groundwater
    • diurnal-cycle
    • diel-cycle
    • snowmelt
    • sap-flow
    • ecohydrology
    • evapotranspiration
  • 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

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-depth
    • forest-structure
    • airborne-laser-scanning
    • canopy-height
    • snow-distribution
  • Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

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    Education, culture and sport

    Snow and air data was monitored at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) by an infrarot radiometer (Campbell SI-111) for snow temperature (°C), a snow height sensor (Lufft SHM-31)...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • snow
    • raclets
    • snow-temperature
    • snow-height
    • temperature
    • snow-depth
  • GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes GPS-derived snow water equivalent (SWE), snow depth (HS) and liquid water content (LWC) data for three entire snow-covered seasons (2015-2016, 2016-2017,...

    Last updated: November 29, 2019

    • CSV
    • PDF
    • liquid-water-content
    • snow-depth
    • snow-cover
    • gps
    • snow
  • Raw data-Publication cross-resistance in ash - New Phytologist

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    Education, culture and sport

    What are the research data files about: Raw data on perfomance (dry weight, development and mortality) of emerald ash borer larvae used in published bioassays. Raw data on ash...

    Last updated: May 23, 2023

    • XLS
    • fraxinus
    • ash-dieback
    • emerald-ash-borer
    • cross-resistance
    • invasive-species
    • defense-chemistry
    • intraspecific-variation
  • intratrait

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across...

    Last updated: September 26, 2022

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • neighbour-interactions
    • elevation-gradient
    • plant-traits
    • elevation-range
    • climate-change
    • cold-adapted-plants
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download from swisstopo website

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Last updated: August 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • swiss-geodata
    • open-source
    • digital-planning
    • digital-elevation-model
    • seilaplan
    • cable-yarding
    • qgis-plugin
    • swisstopo
    • geoinformation-software
  • The usage of landscape ecological concepts in the planning literature

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    Education, culture and sport

    Table of content: 1. Frequency of early concepts; 2. Frequency of additional concepts; 3. Use of any early concept; 4. Use of any additional concept, 5. Planning steps; 6....

    Last updated: October 25, 2021

    • CSV
    • XLS
    • landscape-services
    • decision-making
    • literature-review
    • sense-of-place
    • socio-ecological-system
    • multifunctionality
    • landscape-planning
    • resilience
    • planning
    • green-infrastructure
    • pdfsearch
    • landscape-perception
    • ecosystem-services
    • landscape-ecology
  • UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH

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    Education, culture and sport

    This snow depth map was generated 14 January 2015, close to peak of winter accumulation, applying Unmanned Aerial System digital surface models with a spatial resolution of 10 cm....

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • TIFF
    • swe
    • remote-sensing
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • uas
  • Biogeochemical data from a transplantation experiment of monolith soil turfs along an altitudinal gradient to simulate climate change scenarios

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    Education, culture and sport

    Silvopastoral systems are highly productive and combine long-term wood production with annual provision of forage for livestock. In the Swiss Jura Mountains these systems are a key...

    Last updated: December 15, 2020

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • transplantation-experiment
    • biogeochemisty
    • soil
    • silvopastoral-systems
  • ASRB_WFJ: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    Corrected incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave 2 min radiation measurements at the Weissfluhjoch summit, Davos, CH.

    References

    1. Marty, C., Philipona, R., Frohlich, C.,...

    Last updated: July 15, 2020

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • incoming
    • weissfluhjoch
    • shortwave-radiation
    • longwave-radiation
    • outgoing
  • 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
    • snow-depth
    • jim
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow-simulation
  • Global Cryosphere Watch data survey

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    Education, culture and sport

    Two surveys on the topic of data usage where conducted for the Global Cryosphere Watch data portal. The first one focused on the data provider point of view while the second one...

    Last updated: January 30, 2020

    • CSV
    • gcw
    • automatic-publication
    • data-portal
    • data-exchange
    • data-usage
  • Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain...

    Last updated: January 31, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • PDF
    • recreational-activities
    • adolescents
    • forest
    • teenagers
    • childhood