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99 datasets found

  • Forest Reserves Monitoring in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Long term monitoring of natural forests provides insights into ecological processes shaping forests without human intervention. To study natural forest dynamics, the former chair...

    Last updated: March 25, 2020

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    • natural-forest-dynamics
    • permanent-plot
    • switzerland
    • forest-reserves
    • long-term-monitoring
  • Antarctic sea-ice freshwater fluxes associated with freezing, transport, and melting

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    This data set provides estimates of annual fresh water fluxes related to sea-ice formation from ocean freezing and snow-ice formation, sea-ice melting, lateral transport of sea ice...

    Last updated: May 9, 2022

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    • sea-ice
    • southern-ocean
    • freezing
    • salinity
    • forcing
    • polar
    • sea-ice-divergence
    • salt
    • transport
    • satellite
    • melting
    • mass-balance
    • cryospheric-science
    • freshwater-flux
    • antartic
    • sea-ice-volume
    • physical-oceanography
    • climate-change
  • Jussy, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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

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    • wind-speed
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • meteorology
    • par
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • long-term
    • climate-change
    • temperature
    • precipitation
  • Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat Concept

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    Education, culture and sport

    This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the...

    Last updated: April 23, 2021

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    • open-data
    • open-source
    • research-data-management
    • open-science
    • hpc
    • jupyter-notebooks
    • reproducibility
  • Neunkirch, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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

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    • precipitation
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • meteo
    • par
    • meteorology
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • wind-speed
    • temperature
  • Experts survey protective forest and combined extremes in Val Mesolcina

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results of a case study analysing the potential impacts of a compound meteorological extreme event on the protective forest in the Val Mesolcina. These...

    Last updated: October 2, 2023

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    • protection-forest
    • extreme-events
    • drought
    • forest-fire
    • bark-beetles
    • compound-events
    • natural-hazards
    • protective-effect
  • FORHYCS v. 1.0.0 model code

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    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

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    • forest
    • climate-change-impact
    • hydrology
    • forest-dynamics
    • modeling
  • Interview guide and transcripts (CONCUR Aim 2 on Governance)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset is composed of an interview guide used to conduct 43 in-depth, qualitative, and in-person interviews with planning experts, academics and practitioners, in 14 European...

    Last updated: November 25, 2021

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    • governance
    • spatial-development
    • spatial-planning
    • urban-regions
    • strategic-spatial-planning
    • land-use
  • ASRB_WFJVF: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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    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
  • 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

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    • climatology
    • climate-layers
    • climate
    • climate-change
    • temperature
    • precipitation
    • free-climate-data
    • bioclim
  • Stable Water Isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch

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    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

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    • snow
    • paleoclimate
    • sublimation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • post-depositional-processes
    • weissfluhjoch
    • natural-tracer
    • latent-heat
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

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    Education, culture and sport

    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

    Last updated: May 20, 2020

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    • snowfall
    • climate-change-impacts
    • hydrology
    • snow
    • water-cycle
  • Herb layer biomass in Swiss forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    The purpose of this project was to develop a model to estimate herb layer biomass and carbon stock based on the categorical cover estimate on each NFI sample plot. To this end,...

    Last updated: August 20, 2021

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    • sedges
    • grasses
    • shrubs
    • national-forest-inventory
    • biomass
    • ferns
    • herbs
  • Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil

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    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper entitled “The role of spatial planning in land change: An assessment of urban planning and nature conservation...

    Last updated: January 6, 2022

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    • topography
    • forest-gain
    • urban-compactness
    • spatial-modelling
    • urban-morphology
    • nature-conservation
    • forest-persistence
    • basic-services
    • built-up-classification
    • planning-outcome
    • land-use-and-cover-change
    • urban-sprawl
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

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    Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological parameter...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • dischmex
    • meteorological-measurements
    • meteo-station
    • dischma
    • meteorological-data
  • Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

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    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
  • Genomics and Adaptation in Forest Ecosystems. Book of Abstracts. EvolTree Conference 2021, 14 – 17 September 2021, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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    The first EVOLTREE Conference, taking place in hybrid format (on-site and online) at WSL Birmensdorf (Switzerland) from 14-17 September, 2021, focuses on the genomics of trees and...

    Last updated: September 28, 2021

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    • abstracts
    • evoltree
    • adaptation
    • forest-ecosystems
    • genomics
    • conference
  • CHELSA-TraCE21k: Downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the last glacial maximum

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    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

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    • glaciers
    • precipitation
    • orography
    • air-temperature
    • last-glacial-maximum
    • paleo-climate
  • Dataset on Cosmo-1 based Energy Potential in Swiss Alps

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    This dataset consist of simulated hourly power production from an Enercon E82 Turbine at 100 m hub-height. It describes the hourly power output a 1MW turbine would produce in each...

    Last updated: December 15, 2020

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    • cosmo-1
    • wind-energy
    • es2050
    • mountain-wind-potential
    • topography
  • Wood Mobilization Survey

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    Understanding the market behavior of forest owners and managers is important to identify effective and efficient policy instruments that enhance wood provisioning. We conducted a...

    Last updated: December 21, 2020

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    • forest-owners
    • wood-harvest
    • distribution-channels
    • trading-preferences
    • forest-managers