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9 datasets found

  • Urals: latitudinal decline in treeline biomass and productivity

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    Education, culture and sport

    1. Stand characteristics of treeline ecotone along 18 elevational gradients of the Ural mountains.
    2. Extrapolated climate data at treeline using nearby meteo station...

    Last updated: January 29, 2020

    • XLS
    • soil-temperature
    • latitude
    • elevational-gradient
    • permafrost
    • nitrogen
    • air-temperature
    • treeline
    • soil
    • biomass
    • phosphorus
    • climate
  • CHELSAcruts - High resolution temperature and precipitation timeseries for the 20th century and beyond

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    Education, culture and sport

    CHELSAcruts is a delta change monthly climate dataset for the years 1901-2016 for mean monthly maximum temperatures, mean monthly minimum temperatures, and monthly precipitation...

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • air-temperature
    • timeseries
    • precipitation
    • free-climate-data
    • climate
    • climate-layers
    • maximum-temperature
    • minimum-temperature
    • century
  • More than one century of hydrological monitoring in two small catchments with different forest coverage, Sperbelgraben and Rappengraben (Switzerland)

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    Education, culture and sport

    Long-term data on precipitation and runoff are essential to draw firm conclusions about the behavior and trends of hydrological catchments that may be influenced by land-use and...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • runoff
    • precipitation
    • snow-depth
    • watershed-drainage-basins
    • air-temperature
  • Greenland Climate Network (GC-Net) Data

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    Education, culture and sport

    In Memory of Dr. Konrad (Koni) Steffen

    Update October 2022: The GC-Net is kindly continued by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). Starting...

    Last updated: September 7, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • JSON
    • net-radiation
    • air-temperature
    • greenland
    • climate
    • aws
    • automatic-weather-station
  • WFJ_MOD: Meteorological and snowpack measurements from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Last updated: September 13, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • wind-direction
    • wind-speed
    • precipitation-amount
    • longwave-radiation
    • air-temperature
    • humidity
    • shortwave-radiation
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • snow-depth
  • CHELSA-TraCE21k: Downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the last glacial maximum

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    Education, culture and sport

    High resolution, downscaled climate model data are used in a wide variety of applications in environmental sciences. Here we present the CHELSA-TraCE21k downscaling algorithm to...

    Last updated: June 7, 2023

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • orography
    • air-temperature
    • precipitation
    • last-glacial-maximum
    • paleo-climate
    • glaciers
  • Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland at 2090 m a.s.l.

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information The Stillberg ecological treeline research site is located in the transition zone between the relatively humid climate of the Northern Alps and the...

    Last updated: September 29, 2023

    • ZIP
    • air-pressure
    • relative-humidity
    • wind-direction
    • stillberg
    • wind-speed
    • soil-temperature
    • snow-depth
    • air-temperature
    • treeline
    • dew-point-temperature
    • shortwave-radiation
    • precipitation-sum
  • High resolution climate data for Europe

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    Education, culture and sport

    High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present downscaled climate data for the...

    Last updated: June 4, 2021

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • europe
    • maximum-temperature
    • eur11
    • minimum-temperature
    • air-temperature
    • daily-climate
    • precipitation
    • cordex
  • High resolution monthly precipitation and temperature timeseries for the period 2006-2100

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    Education, culture and sport

    Predicting future climatic conditions at high spatial resolution is essential for many applications in science. Here we present data for monthly time series of precipitation and...

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • cmip5
    • orographic-precipitation
    • climate-change
    • air-temperature
    • precipitation-amount