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59 datasets found

  • ATREE Q-methodology statement sorts on forest clearances offsetting in the forest

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In Novdember 2019 about 19 experts on forest surface protection and forest clearances were invited to a workshop in order to discuss policy design and implementation problems...

    Last updated: February 9, 2022

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    • atree
    • forest-clearances
    • q-methodology
    • nature-conservation
    • offsetting
    • reafforestation
  • WFJ_RHOSSA: Multi-instrument stratigraphy data for the seasonal evolution of an alpine snowpack

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The WFJ_RHOSSA dataset contains multi-instrument, multi-resolution snow stratigraphy measurements for the seasonal evolution of the snowpack from the Weissfluhjoch research site,...

    Last updated: August 11, 2020

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    • snow-stratigraphy
    • microstructure
    • specific-surface-area
    • weissfluhjoch
    • density
    • snowmicropen
  • Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript (doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822).

    Manuscript...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • sediment-transport
    • model
    • mars
    • snow
    • erosion
  • Scolytidae

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Scolytidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (29.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types. Data are provided on request to...

    Last updated: January 9, 2020

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    • forest
    • bark-beetles
    • saproxylic-insects
    • coleoptera
    • dead-wood
    • biodiversity
  • Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • management
    • sentinel-2
    • landsat
    • grassland
    • remote-sensing
    • mowing
    • land-use
    • use-intensity
  • Hillshade for Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Hillshade of the digital surface model (DSM), calculated from digital aerial stereo images. The image data was acquired by the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. The...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • TXT
    • 3d
    • photogrammety
    • point-cloud
    • image-matching
    • digital-surface-model
  • Crack propagation speeds in weak snowpack layers from three events: PST, whumpf and slab avalanche

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    For the release of a slab avalanche, crack propagation within a weak snowpack layer below a cohesive snow slab is required. As crack speed measurements can give insight into the...

    Last updated: October 12, 2021

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    • weak-layer
    • dynamic-crack-propagation
    • crack-speed
    • propagation-saw-test
    • slab-avalanche
    • snow
    • whumpf
  • Plant-Orthoptera trophic networks (Lif3web projet)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The study of ecological networks along environmental gradients has so far been limited by the difficulty of collecting large-scale dataset of comparable interactions. Here, we...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

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    • trophic-networks
    • plant-insect-interaction
    • swiss-alps
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • elevation
  • Hydraulic resistance of pores in porous media using DNS of laminar flow

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Included are three direct numerical simulations results of Stokes flow in three heterogeneous porous media obtained with OpenFoam simulations. In addition we include three data...

    Last updated: September 16, 2021

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    • TXT
    • permeability
    • pore-shape-factors
    • heterogeneous-porous-media
    • laminar-flow
    • local-hydraulic-resistance
  • Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories in the Antarctic

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Summary

    This data set contains Python programming code and modeled data discussed in a related research article. We developed a simple isotope model to study the drivers of the...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

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    • ZIP
    • evaporation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • antarctica
    • isotopic-distillation
    • snow-sublimation
    • backward-trajectories
  • The origin of urban communities: from the regional species pool to community assemblages in city

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Carabid beetle and wild bee occurrences in the city of Zurich, Switzerland.

    Dataset available upon request (An agreement between the data provider and the data recipient is...

    Last updated: February 28, 2023

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    • environmental-heterogeneity
    • species-composition
    • functional-diversity
    • niche
    • composition
    • niche-breadth
    • allotment
    • urban-ecology
    • functional-traits
    • urbanization
    • bettergardens
    • garden
    • allotments
    • trait
    • species
    • gardens
    • bettergarden
    • wild-bees
    • wild-bee
    • diversity
    • functional
    • ground-beetles
    • community-assembly
    • ecology
    • ground-beetle
  • ASRB_WFJ: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • longwave-radiation
    • shortwave-radiation
    • incoming
    • weissfluhjoch
    • outgoing
  • Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains four years of daily measurements of the natural isotopic composition (2H, 18O) of precipitation and stream water at the Alp catchment (area 47 km2) in Central...

    Last updated: April 27, 2022

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    • TXT
    • PDF
    • stable-water-isotope
    • precipitation
    • stream-water
    • catchment
    • hydrology
    • alptal
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

    Last updated: February 5, 2020

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    • microstructure
    • compression-experiments
    • x-ray-tomography
    • snow-mechanics
    • snow
  • Ecological properties of urban ecosystems. Biodiversity dataset of Zurich

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Richness, site occurrence and abundance data of bees, beetles, birds, hoverflies, net-wingeds, true bugs, snails, spiders, milipides, wasps collected in the city of Zurich using...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

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    • species-richness-models
    • insects
    • urbanization
    • birds
    • arthropods
    • sdms
    • snails
    • urban-ecology
    • spiders
    • species-abundance-distributions
    • diversity
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow-simulation
    • snow-depth
    • jim
  • WFJ_ICE_LAYERS: Multi-instrument data for monitoring deep ice layer formation in an alpine snowpack

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The WFJ_ICE_LAYERS dataset contains multi-instrument snowpack measurements at high temporal resolution, which enable to monitor the formation of deep ice layers due to preferential...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • weissfluhjoch
    • water-front
    • snowmicropen
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-temperature
    • ice-layers
  • Distribution maps of common woody species for Swiss forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    **We used Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) data to model the potential distribution of the most common woody species for the forested area...

    Last updated: July 13, 2021

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    • PDF
    • mogli
    • lfi
    • sdm
    • switzerland
    • woody-species
  • Carabid beetles in forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types.

    Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract...

    Last updated: November 27, 2019

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    • running-beetles
    • carabidae
    • insects
    • forest
    • trapping
    • arthropoda
    • coleoptera
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Stable water isotopes (δ18O) obtained from snow and ice samples of polar regions are used to reconstruct past climate variability, but heat and mass transport processes can affect...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow
    • 18o
    • stable-water-isotope
    • advection
    • metamorphism