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59 datasets found

  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

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    Education, culture and sport

    These data were used to drive and evaluate Jules Investigation Model (JIM) snow simulations. The data provided are the forcing data used for the "deterministic" runs as described...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

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    • ZIP
    • jim
    • snow-simulation
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • jules-investigation-model
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

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    Education, culture and sport

    When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

    Last updated: February 5, 2020

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    • TXT
    • microstructure
    • x-ray-tomography
    • snow-mechanics
    • compression-experiments
    • snow
  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

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    Education, culture and sport

    Two data sets obtained for snow farming projects (Fluela, Davos, CH and Martell, IT) in 2015.

    The data set contains for each site:

    • 10 cm GIS raster of snow depth calculated...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

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    • SERVICE
    • snow-farming
    • snow-conservation
    • snowpack
    • snow
    • winter-tourism
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
  • ASRB_DAV: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) in Davos Dorf

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    Incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave 2 min radiation measurements in Davos Dorf, CH.

    References

    1. Marty, C., Philipona, R., Frohlich, C., Ohmura, A.. Altitude...

    Last updated: September 4, 2020

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    • PDF
    • TXT
    • shortwave-radiation
    • longwave-radiation
    • outgoing
    • davos
    • incoming
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17....

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • wind-crust
    • snow
    • kinect
    • wind-packing
    • wind-tunnel
  • Groundwater time series Studibach (Rinderer et al., 2019, WRR)

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    Education, culture and sport

    Groundwater time series between 2010 and 2014 of the distributed monitoring system in the Studibach (C7), Alptal, Switzerland. Data published in Rinderer M., van Meerveld I,...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

    • TXT
    • switzerland
    • alptal
    • time-series
    • studibach
    • groundwater
  • eemma.R, an R script for Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis

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    Education, culture and sport

    The R script eemma.R, which implements Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis (EEMMA) to estimate source fractions in mixtures, exploiting information contained in time-series...

    Last updated: June 12, 2023

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    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • emma
    • end-member-mixing-analysis
    • stable-isotopes
    • tracers
    • mixing-models
    • eemma
  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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    Education, culture and sport

    To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • snowpack
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-forecast
  • Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the SnowMicroPen (SMP) data from 38 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winters 2015/16...

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • wind-packing
    • smp
    • snowmicropen
    • wind-crust
    • snow
  • Daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen and Independence Creeks, Sierra Nevada, USA

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    Education, culture and sport

    Hydrometerological and ecohydrological time series from Sagehen Creek and Independence Creek, Sierra Nevada, USA, illustrating hydrological responses to daily cycles in snowmelt...

    Last updated: June 16, 2020

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    • PDF
    • streamflow
    • snowmelt
    • groundwater
    • ecohydrology
    • sap-flow
    • diurnal-cycle
    • diel-cycle
    • evapotranspiration
  • Carabid beetles in forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types.

    Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract...

    Last updated: November 27, 2019

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    • TXT
    • arthropoda
    • forest
    • coleoptera
    • trapping
    • carabidae
    • insects
    • running-beetles
  • GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Snowprofile from 11 observer sites in Switzerland compiled for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Height of snow (cm) and snow water equivalent (mm) are recorded every 2...

    Last updated: May 25, 2022

    • CSV
    • TXT
    • snow-profile
    • snow-height
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gcos
  • G-TREE: Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information Climate change-induced range expansion of treeline populations depends on their successful recruitment, which requires dispersal of viable seeds followed by...

    Last updated: September 10, 2023

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    • TXT
    • seedling-recruitment
    • picea-abies
    • swiss-alps
    • stillberg
    • climate-change
    • g-tree
    • treeline
    • forest
    • larix-decidua
  • ASRB_WFJ: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    Corrected incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave 2 min radiation measurements at the Weissfluhjoch summit, Davos, CH.

    References

    1. Marty, C., Philipona, R., Frohlich, C.,...

    Last updated: July 15, 2020

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    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • outgoing
    • shortwave-radiation
    • incoming
    • weissfluhjoch
    • longwave-radiation
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

    Last updated: March 24, 2022

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • meteorological-data
    • catchment-data
    • rain-on-snow
    • snowpack
    • snow-hydrology
  • Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

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    Education, culture and sport

    Total water reserves of the snow cover [mio m3] for Wägital catchment, Switzerland, for reference date April 1. Data is separated in 2 elevation zones 900m-1500m asl and...

    Last updated: April 19, 2023

    • TXT
    • snow
    • meteodat-gmbh
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gcos
    • wagital
  • Hydro-meteorological simulations for the period 1981-2018 for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset provides simulated 1) precipitation, 2) discharge, 3) soil moisture, and 4) low-flow simulations for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland for the period...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • hydrological-simulations
    • low-flow
    • precipitation
    • prevah
    • drought-2018
    • discharge
    • soil-moisture
  • Forest canopy structure data for radiation and snow modelling (CH/FIN)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains forest canopy structure data acquired in a spruce forest at Laret, Switzerland, and a pine forest at Sodankylä, Finland. Data include:

    • Hemispherical...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • upscaling
    • energy-balance
    • forest-canopy
    • snow-modelling
    • mass-balance
  • Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories in the Antarctic

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    Education, culture and sport

    Summary

    This data set contains Python programming code and modeled data discussed in a related research article. We developed a simple isotope model to study the drivers of the...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • backward-trajectories
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • antarctica
    • evaporation
    • snow-sublimation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • isotopic-distillation
  • Hymenoptera

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    Education, culture and sport

    Hymenopteran data from all historic up to the recent projects (29.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various standardized methods in landscapes of different types.

    Data are provided...

    Last updated: February 8, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • forests
    • hymenoptera
    • agricultural
    • arthropoda
    • hautfluger
    • urban