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360 datasets found

  • Nutrient addition experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland

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    Background information

    The availability of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is considered to be a major factor limiting growth and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems globally....

    Last updated: June 26, 2024

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    • nitrogen-isotope
    • stillberg
    • fertilization
    • dwarf-shrubs
    • treeline
    • tree-rings
  • Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples

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    For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered...

    Last updated: December 16, 2020

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    • snow-mechanics
    • 3d-ct-images
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • microstructure
    • unconfined-compression-experiments
    • spherical-model-snow
  • Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)

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    Polygons of wet snow avalanches in the Davos area, as documented by the Swiss avalanche warning service. The georeferenced outlines of the avalanches contain both the release as...

    Last updated: December 15, 2021

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    • shapefile
    • observations
    • alps
    • avalanches
    • snow
  • Number of natural hazard fatalities per year in Switzerland since 1946

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    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: March 12, 2024

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    • debris-flow-fatalities
    • windstorm-fatalities
    • natural-hazard-fatalities
    • flood-fatalities
    • lightning-fatalities
    • landslide-fatalities
    • ice-avalanche-fatalities
    • earthquake-fatalities
    • rockfall-fatalities
  • Multi-resolution CLM5 simulations across Switzerland

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    This dataset contains Community Land Model 5 (CLM5) simulation output over the spatial extent of Switzerland at different resolutions and based on a range of input datasets. It...

    Last updated: July 16, 2024

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    • land-cover
    • forest-productivity
    • land-use
    • oshd
    • snow
    • clm5
    • evapotranspiration
    • snow-simulation
    • high-resolution
  • Effective, anisotropic elasticity tensor of snow, firn, and bubbly ice

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    The study aims to determine the effective elastic properties of snow, firn, and bubbly ice based on microstructural quantities. Anisotropy, one of these quantities (the other being...

    Last updated: November 27, 2023

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    • anisotropy
    • elasticity
    • fem
    • crystallographic
    • geometrical
    • x-ray-tomography
    • microstructure
  • Synchrony between spongy moth hatching and leaf phenology of temperate trees

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    The files correspond to the data and R-script used for the analyses of the following paper "Feasting on the ordinary or starving for the exceptional: phenological synchrony between...

    Last updated: July 11, 2023

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    • phenology
    • spongy-month
    • budburst
    • hatch
    • chilling
  • Disdrometer Data Gotschnagrat

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    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

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    • visibility
    • raclets
    • disdrometer
    • hydrometeors
    • precipitation
  • WFJ_MOD: Meteorological and snowpack measurements from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Dataset of meteorological and snowpack measurements from the automatic weather station at Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, suitable for driving snowpack models. The dataset...

    Last updated: October 4, 2023

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    • snow-ice-temperature
    • wind-direction
    • snow-depth
    • longwave-radiation
    • wind-speed
    • shortwave-radiation
    • air-temperature
    • humidity
    • precipitation-amount
  • Community structure, life-history traits and performance traits of urban cavity-nesting bees annd wasps

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    Background Urban ecosystems are associated with socio-ecological conditions that can filter and promote taxa. However, the strength of the effect of ecological filtering on...

    Last updated: July 16, 2024

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    • cities
    • hymennoptera
    • wasps
    • urbanization
    • life-history-traits
    • richness
    • cavity-nesting
    • natural-enemies
    • bees
    • urban-ecology
    • performance-traits
    • hymenoptera
  • C-N-P-Release Treeline

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    1. Chemical characteristics of litter layer sampled along elevation gradient across treeline ecotones in the Khibiny mountains (birch) and South Urals (spruce)
    2. Release of C-N-P...

    Last updated: August 26, 2024

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    • nutrient-fluxes
    • microbial-biomass
    • litter-decomposition
    • climate-change
    • treeline-ecosystems
    • enzymatic-activities
    • carbon-cycle
    • biogeochemical-cycling
  • Beatenberg, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 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: January 16, 2020

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    • precipitation
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
    • meteo
    • wind-speed
    • temperature
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
  • Terrestrial laser scans on Hammarryggen Ice Rise, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

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    Surface topography maps (spatial extent: 400 m x 400 m) obtained at approximately 300 m from the top of the Hammarryggen Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, using a...

    Last updated: September 20, 2023

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    • ZIP
    • gridded-data
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • antarctica
  • Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil

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    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

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    • SHP
    • SERVICE
    • land-use-and-cover-change
    • urban-morphology
    • planning-outcome
    • forest-persistence
    • forest-gain
    • urban-sprawl
    • basic-services
    • built-up-classification
    • topography
    • urban-compactness
    • nature-conservation
    • spatial-modelling
  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

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    In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

    Last updated: February 16, 2022

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    • natural-hazards
    • mass-movements
    • experiment
    • field-tests
    • rockfall
    • experiments
    • field-test
    • field-data
    • trajectory
  • Soil organic carbon stock of an afforestation sequence on a subalpine pasture

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    This data set provides soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and stable carbon isotope (13C) values of mineral soil (0-45cm), organic horizons (Oi, Oe, Oa), and root biomass of an...

    Last updated: December 1, 2023

    • XLS
    • afforestation
    • subalpine
    • isotopes
    • belowground-biomass
    • picea-abies
  • Visp, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 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 3, 2019

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    • SERVICE
    • climate-change
    • relative-humidity
    • wind-speed
    • temperature
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • precipitation
    • par
    • long-term
    • meteo
    • meteorology
  • Production de biogaz à partir d’engrais de ferme en Suisse

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    L'objectif de ce livre blanc est de fournir aux décideurs, aux administrations et aux parties prenantes les résultats de recherche les plus récents afin de promouvoir l'utilisation...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

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    • biogas
    • manure
    • bioenergy
    • review
    • switzerland
  • snowBedFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian-Lagrangian solver for modelling snow transport

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    snowBedFoam 1.0. is a snow transport solver implemented in the computational fluid dynamics software OpenFOAM. It is adapted from the standard multi-phase flow solver DPMFoam for...

    Last updated: March 25, 2024

    • ZIP
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    • SERVICE
    • mosaic
    • snow-transport
    • snow-deposition
    • antarctica
    • openfoam
    • arctic-sea-ice
  • Ring wind tunnel experiments - airborne snow metamorphism and stable water isotopes

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    This dataset collection contains all datasets collected during the ring wind tunnel experiments in January and May 2023 at the SLF cold laboratory facilities in Davos. A full...

    Last updated: March 12, 2024

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • drifting-snow
    • water-isotopes
    • experiments
    • wind-tunnel
    • cold-lab
    • snow-saltation
    • metamorphism
    • blowing-snow