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29 datasets found

  • 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
    • psm-did
    • land-use-planning
    • plan-evaluation
    • land-use-change
    • annual-effect
  • The usage of landscape ecological concepts in the planning literature

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • green-infrastructure
    • ecosystem-services
    • landscape-services
    • sense-of-place
    • landscape-ecology
    • landscape-planning
    • pdfsearch
    • socio-ecological-system
    • literature-review
    • planning
    • resilience
    • multifunctionality
    • decision-making
    • landscape-perception
  • Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Cities are socio-ecological systems that filter and select species, thus establishing unique species assemblages and biotic interactions. Urban ecosystems can host richer wild bee...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • pollinator-experiment
    • beekeeping
    • honeybees
    • resource-availability
    • city4bees
    • wild-bees
    • bettergardens
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urbanization
    • gardens
    • zurich
    • urban-ecosystems
  • Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat Concept

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the...

    Last updated: April 23, 2021

    • PDF
    • open-data
    • open-science
    • reproducibility
    • open-source
    • jupyter-notebooks
    • hpc
    • research-data-management
  • Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Overview We present GROUNDEYE, a new model of radiative transfer over mountainous terrain, which considers for the first time the forward scattering properties of snow. Embedded...

    Last updated: June 5, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • shortwave-radiation
    • photovoltaic
    • snow
    • winter-energy-production
    • albedo
  • 3D_Snow_Models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types are...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • depth-hoar
    • rounded-snow
    • weak-layer
    • 3d-model
    • snow
    • 3d-print
    • snow-cast
    • new-snow
  • 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
    • the-major-function-oriented-zone
    • propensity-score-matching
    • causality
    • built-up-land-change
    • selection-bias
    • fujian-province
  • MOSAIC Snow on Sea Ice Data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data accompanying David Wagners' Dissertation. Covers model results and various input from ALPINE3D and SNOWPACK adjusted for sea ice during MOSAiC.

    Last updated: March 12, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • arctic-sea-ice
    • drifting-and-blowing-snow
    • surface-mass-balance
    • snow-distribution
    • spatial-variability
  • Nanoplastics in forests: Exploring the effects of nanoplastics on forest soils and tree physiology (NanoPlast)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The fate of plastic in the environment is of global concern, because its production recently has increased strongly and it accumulates in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems....

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

    • XLS
    • nanoplastic
    • uptake
    • 13c-labelling
    • polystyrene
    • forest-trees
  • Non-Binary Environmental Archive Data (NEAD) format

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Acknowledgement: The NEAD format includes NetCDF metadata and is proudly inspired by both SMET and NetCDF formats. NEAD is designed as a long-term data preservation and exchange...

    Last updated: February 28, 2023

    • HTML
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • research-data-management
    • metadata-convention
    • csv
    • meteorological-data-format
    • nead
  • Data on wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Raw data supporting the paper "Countrywide wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity reveal a spatial mismatch between alpha and beta-diversity facets across multiple ecological...

    Last updated: January 19, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • elevation-gradient
    • anthophila
    • beta-diversity
    • biodiversity
    • switzerland
    • wild-bee
    • protected-areas
    • resource-availability
    • urbanization
    • functional-diversity
    • predictive-modelling
    • climate
    • community-indices
    • hymenoptera
  • 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
    • landscape
    • place-attachment
    • urban-ecology
    • electrodermal-activity
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created during...

    Last updated: February 19, 2023

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • icecube
    • specific-surface-area
    • intercomparison
    • microct
    • snow
  • snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian–Eulerian two-phase solver for modelling convection of water vapor in snowpacks

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam is a two-phase solver implemented to model convection of water vapor with phase change in snowpacks. This new solver is based on the standard solver of...

    Last updated: January 15, 2022

    • ZIP
    • snow-density-profile
    • vapor-transport
    • openfoam
    • numerical-simulation
    • convection-in-snow
  • RoRCC

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • climate-change
    • run-of-river-power-plants
    • environmental-flow
    • hydropower
    • design-discharge
  • Larval food composition of four wild bee species in five European cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Urbanization poses threats and opportunities for the biodiversity of wild bees. A main gap relates to the food preferences of wild bees in urban ecosystems, which usually harbour...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

    • CSV
    • cavity-nesting-bees
    • poznan
    • urban-ecology
    • hylaeus-communis
    • chelostoma-florisomne
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • paris
    • tartu
    • osmia-bicornis
    • zurich
    • plant-pollinator-interactions
    • trap-nest
    • osmia-cornuta
    • antwerp
  • EnviDat Supports Open Science

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The article "EnviDat Supports Open Science" originally appeared in WSLintern No. 3 (2020), page 14-15 and it is republished here with permission from the WSLintern editorial team....

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

    • PDF
    • open-science
    • wsl
    • research-data-management
    • juypter-notebooks
    • envidat
  • Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We modelled the global distribution of 730 amphibian, 1276 reptile, and 1961 mammal species globally as a function of current climate at a 0.5° spatial resolution using four...

    Last updated: November 9, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • climate-variablity
    • generalized-additive-models
    • chelsa
    • sdm
    • reptiles
    • generalized-linear-models
    • random-forests
    • amphibians
    • mammals
    • niche-models
    • iucn
    • species-distribution-models
    • interannual-climate-variability
    • range-maps
  • Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial...

    Last updated: December 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • driving-factors
    • austin
    • land-dynamics
    • planning
    • urban-land-use
  • intratrait

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • neighbour-interactions
    • plant-traits
    • elevation-gradient
    • cold-adapted-plants
    • elevation-range
    • climate-change