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30 datasets found

  • Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs provides estimates of current and future water supply, water demand, and storage volumes for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland. Water...

    Last updated: December 15, 2020

    • ZIP
    • water-supply
    • water-demand
    • climate-change
    • water-scarcity
    • reservoirs
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden

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    Education, culture and sport

    This is the simulation dataset from "Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland", M. Bavay, T. Grünewald, M. Lehning,...

    Last updated: November 12, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • climate-change
    • snow
    • graubunden
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • switzerland
  • Isone, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • meteorology
    • wind-speed
    • par
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • relative-humidity
    • climate-change
    • meteo
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • temperature
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014

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    Education, culture and sport

    Overview

    The CH2014-Impacts initiative is a concerted national effort to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively, drawing on the scientific resources...

    Last updated: January 19, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ch2011
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • climate-change
    • snow-depth
    • ch2014
  • 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
    • orographic-precipitation
    • air-temperature
    • precipitation-amount
    • climate-change
    • cmip5
  • Vordemwald, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • meteo
    • climate-change
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • precipitation
    • par
    • wind-speed
    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • long-term
  • Biogeochemical data from a transplantation experiment of monolith soil turfs along an altitudinal gradient to simulate climate change scenarios

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    Education, culture and sport

    Silvopastoral systems are highly productive and combine long-term wood production with annual provision of forage for livestock. In the Swiss Jura Mountains these systems are a key...

    Last updated: December 15, 2020

    • ZIP
    • soil
    • climate-change
    • silvopastoral-systems
    • transplantation-experiment
    • biogeochemisty
  • Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand...

    Last updated: September 26, 2023

    • ZIP
    • biodiversity
    • forest
    • ecology
    • microclimate
    • statistical-interpolation
    • radiation-transfer
    • climate-change
  • Simulated future discharge and climatological variables for medium-sized catchments in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Daily discharge and the related hydro-meteorological variables precipitation, snowmelt, and soil moisture are provided for current (1981-2017) and for future climate conditions...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • snowmelt
    • discharge
    • hydrology
    • soil-moisture
    • precipitation
  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

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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 the CHELSA (Climatologies at high...

    Last updated: September 10, 2021

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • climate
    • free-climate-data
    • climate-change
    • precipitation
    • bioclim
    • climate-layers
    • climatology
    • temperature