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59 datasets found

  • Bats and nocturnal insects in urban green areas

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    Education, culture and sport

    Animal biodiversity in cities is generally expected to be uniformly reduced, but recent studies show that this is modulated by the composition and configuration of Urban Green...

    Last updated: December 6, 2021

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    • nocturnal-fauna
    • flying-arthropods
    • chiroptera
    • zurich
    • paris
    • urban-biodiversity
    • antwerp
    • urbanisation
  • Changes in climatology, snow cover and ground temperatures at high alpine locations in Switzerland (Bender et al. 2020)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes all data and simulation files presented in the publication: Bender et al. 2020. Changes in climatology, snow cover and ground temperatures at high alpine...

    Last updated: December 15, 2020

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    • depth-of-snowfall
    • meteo-station
    • climate-change-impact
    • swiss-alps
    • ground-temperature
  • Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019

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    This dataset contains measurement and simulation data. The measurements characterize the standard meteorology, turbulence, and snow transport at the S17 site near Syowa Station in...

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

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    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • turbulence
    • micro-rain-radar
    • meteorological-data
    • blowing-snow
    • antarctica
    • drifting-snow
    • mass-flux
    • large-eddy-simulations
  • ASRB_WFJVF: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

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    • shortwave-radiation
    • longwave-radiation
    • davos
    • weisfluhjoch
    • radiation
  • Angle of repose experiments with natural and spherical snow

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    Education, culture and sport

    Angle of repose experiments were performed with different snow types at temperatures between -2 and -40°C. They were used to examine granular snow dynamics on the grain-scale with...

    Last updated: April 22, 2020

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    • fast-sintering
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • angle-of-repose
    • granular-snow
    • grain-shape
  • Hydraulic resistance of pores in porous media using DNS of laminar flow

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    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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    • pore-shape-factors
    • local-hydraulic-resistance
    • permeability
    • laminar-flow
    • heterogeneous-porous-media
  • Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

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    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

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    • sdm
    • mammals
    • niche-models
    • amphibians
    • reptiles
    • generalized-additive-models
    • climate-variablity
    • chelsa
    • range-maps
    • species-distribution-models
    • generalized-linear-models
    • random-forests
    • iucn
    • interannual-climate-variability
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

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    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
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    • snow
    • metamorphism
    • advection
    • 18o
    • stable-water-isotope
  • Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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    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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    • mars
    • sediment-transport
    • model
    • snow
    • erosion
  • Data for: Understanding dominant controls on streamflow spatial variability to set-up a semi-distributed hydrological model: the case study of the Thur catchment

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    This study documents the development of a semi-distributed hydrological model aimed at reflecting the dominant controls on observed streamflow spatial variability. The process is...

    Last updated: April 22, 2020

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    • ZIP
    • modeling
    • thur-catchment
    • hydrology
    • spatial-variability
    • streamflow
  • 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

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    • long-term-trends
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • avalanche-accident
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-statistics
  • 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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    • microstructure
    • 3d-ct-images
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • unconfined-compression-experiments
    • snow-mechanics
    • spherical-model-snow
  • WFJ_RHOSSA: Multi-instrument stratigraphy data for the seasonal evolution of an alpine snowpack

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    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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    • specific-surface-area
    • microstructure
    • weissfluhjoch
    • density
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snowmicropen
  • Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

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    • ice
    • snow
    • arctic
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • antarctica
  • Snow climate indicators derived from parallel manual snow measurements

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data set consisting of snow climate indicators derived from parallel manual snow measurements in Switzerland.

    Last updated: February 4, 2022

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    • snow-onset-and-disappearance-dates
    • parallel-measurements
    • snow-height
    • snow-depth
    • climate-indicators
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

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    This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees and...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

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    • TXT
    • shading
    • fractional-snow
    • shortwave-radiation
    • forest
    • longwave-radiation
  • Hillshade for Vegetation Height Model NFI

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    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
    • image-matching
    • point-cloud
    • photogrammety
    • digital-surface-model
  • lsUDPS Large-scale urban development projects in European urban regions

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    Education, culture and sport

    Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "lsUDPs" ; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set lsUDPs; 3. The data set lsUDPs: 3.1 Selection of cases and...

    Last updated: March 15, 2022

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    • europe
    • land-use-change
    • large-scale-urban-development-projects
    • spatial-planning
    • land-use-transformations
    • strategic-projects
    • urban-transformations
    • strategic-spatial-planning
  • Stable water isotopes in precipitation and streamflow at Plynlimon, Wales, UK

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data base contains timeseries of stable water isotopes in precipitation and streamflow at Plynlimon, Wales, UK. One data set contains weekly stable water isotope data from the...

    Last updated: May 27, 2020

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    • stable-water-isotopes
    • deuterium
    • catchment
    • chloride
    • precipitation
    • plynlimon
    • tracer
    • streamflow
  • Photogrammetric snow depth maps from satellite-, airplane-, UAS and terrestrial platforms from the Davos region (Switzerland)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set contains the produced snow depth maps as well as the reference data set (manual and snow pole measurements) from our paper "Intercomparison of photogrammetric...

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

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    • TIFF
    • uas
    • terrestrial
    • snow-depth
    • airplane
    • photogrammetry
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • satellite