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37 datasets found

  • Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We performed an experimental trilogy of induced rockfall experiments in a spruce stand in Surava (CH) within (i) the original forest, (ii) after a logging job, resulting in lying...

    Last updated: July 21, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • lying-deadwood
    • rockfall
    • induced-rockfall
    • forest
    • deposition-points
    • in-situ
    • acceleration
    • gyroscope
    • gnss
  • Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • snow-depth
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow
    • snow-models
    • esm-snowmip
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

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    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-failure
    • snow-micro-mechanics
  • 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
    • generalized-linear-models
    • reptiles
    • random-forests
    • generalized-additive-models
    • iucn
    • species-distribution-models
    • sdm
    • chelsa
    • amphibians
    • climate-variablity
    • interannual-climate-variability
    • mammals
    • niche-models
    • range-maps
  • Stumps as a dead wood resource in forests - data based on the Swiss National Forest Inventory

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Based on the detailed tree stump inventory implemented in the Swiss NFI5 (https://www.lfi.ch/lfi/lfi.php), a study was conducted to obtain an accurate assessment of the stumps pool...

    Last updated: August 10, 2022

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    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • biomass
    • protection-forest
    • national-forest-inventory
    • carbon
    • volume
    • biodiversity
  • Stable Water Isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Notice: Changes to the dataset are still possible. Please do not use this dataset until the final publication with a DOI. Contact the authors if you have questions about...

    Last updated: February 27, 2023

    • ZIP
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    • SERVICE
    • natural-tracer
    • weissfluhjoch
    • post-depositional-processes
    • paleoclimate
    • sublimation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • latent-heat
    • snow
  • Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This research data is used to re includes 1 km resolution seed plant species range maps for the Hengduan mountain region (southwest China), elevation information for each species,...

    Last updated: July 27, 2023

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    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • phytodiversity
    • model-residuals
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • hypervolume
    • hengduan-mountains
  • Induced Rockfall Dataset (Small Rock Experimental Campaign), Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of an experimental campaign of induced rockfall in Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland.

    The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophoto...

    Last updated: October 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • sensor-stream
    • deposition-points
    • stonenode
    • rockfall
    • induced-rockfall
    • stonenodedata
    • natural-hazards
    • rockfall-runout
    • dem
    • rockfall-experiments
  • EndSplit

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    R scripts and demonstration data for end-member mixing and splitting: using isotopes and other tracers to determine where streamflow comes from (end-member mixing) and where...

    Last updated: May 16, 2020

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    • ZIP
    • streamflow
    • precipitation
    • evapotranspiration
    • isotopes
    • end-member-mixing
    • tracer
    • end-member-splitting
  • High resolution sea ice surface topography from the SIPEX-2 expedition, East Antarctica, 2012

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises of a post-processed set of terrestrial laser scans (TLS’s) of Antarctic sea ice obtained during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment-2 (SIPEX-2,...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • polar
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • sea-ice-elevation
    • sea-ice
    • tls
  • High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Static input data (topography, landuse and soiltype) for the WRF preprocessing system WPS is provided for Switzerland and its neighboring countries between 45-49 N and 4-12 E. The...

    Last updated: July 16, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • cosmo-wrf
    • static-data
    • topography
    • landuse
    • wrf
    • cryowrf
  • Dataset for OGRS 2018 publication

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the road and plot data used for the geospatial analysis example showcased in "Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal", a...

    Last updated: October 28, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • roads
    • jupyter
    • buffer
    • density
    • geospatial
    • gis
  • Input data for break point detection of Swiss snow depth time series

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data set consists of monthly mean values for snow depth and days with snow on the ground intended for the use of break detection with ACMANT, Climatol and HOMER. List and...

    Last updated: February 21, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • snow-depth
    • break-detection
    • snow-measurements
    • homogenisation
    • climate
  • gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions and a user-friendly GBIF wrapper

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Although species range may be obtained using expert maps or modeling methods, expert data is often species-limited and statistical models need more technical expertise as well as...

    Last updated: August 8, 2023

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • accepted-name
    • occurrence-records
    • species-observations
    • hard-limit
    • range-maps
    • r-package
    • conservation
    • species-distribution
    • large-scale
    • taxonomy
    • gbif
    • flags
    • landsca
    • synonyms
    • filtering
    • ecoregions
  • UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in the...

    Last updated: December 14, 2020

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    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • gletscher
    • orthophoto
    • griesgletscher
    • uav
    • findelengletscher
    • alps
    • orthoimage
    • sankt-annafirn
    • dsm
    • drone
    • dem
    • glacier
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at 4...

    Last updated: December 22, 2021

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gps
    • liquid-water-content
    • gnss
    • snow
    • swe
    • lwc
  • Shape still matters - experimental quantification of deadwood effects on rockfall dynamics

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted an experimental rockfall campaign on a forested slope with deadwood and on with the windthrown area cleared in Schiers (CH). Two different rock categories were used:...

    Last updated: August 14, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • dissipated-energy
    • breaking-energy
    • eota
    • stonenode
    • sensor-technology
    • rockfall-experiments
    • windthrow
    • protective-effect
    • forest
    • lying-deadwood
    • rockfall
  • FORHYCS v. 1.0.0 model code

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Model code, technical documentation and auxiliary files for the dynamic ecohydrological model FORHYCS (FORests and HYdrology under Climate change in Switzerland). FORHYCS combines...

    Last updated: October 28, 2019

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • forest
    • modeling
    • climate-change-impact
    • forest-dynamics
    • hydrology
  • Distributed sub-canopy datasets from mobile multi-sensor platforms (CH / FIN, 2018-2019) for hyper-resolution forest snow model evaluation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains datasets of sub-canopy meteorological variables acquired in coniferous forest stands in Switzerland (Davos, Engadine) and Finland (Sodankylä) during the...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • snow-models
    • meteorological-data
    • forest-structure
    • forest-snow
    • snow-energy-balance
  • Tree rings and climate data of four tree species in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Raw tree ring data and climate used in the following paper: Vitasse Y, Bottero A, Cailleret M et al. (2019) Contrasting resistance and resilience to extreme drought and late spring...

    Last updated: February 15, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • tree-phenology
    • extreme-climatic-events
    • dendrochronology
    • climate-warming
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climatic-water-balance
    • frost-risk