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593 datasets found

  • Net primary productivity (NPP) anomalies simulated by 3-PG model for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Simulated net primary productivity (NPP) anomalies (percent deviation) in 1961-2018 years relative to the 1961–1990 reference period for Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica. NPP...

    Last updated: November 25, 2020

    • ZIP
    • dvm
    • npp
    • growth
    • assimilation
    • forest
  • Weather, snowpack and danger ratings data for automated avalanche danger level predictions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Each set includes the meteorological variables (resampled 24-hour averages) and the profile variables extracted from the simulated profiles for each of the weather stations of the...

    Last updated: April 13, 2023

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • machine-learning
    • avalanche-danger-level
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • avalanche
    • numerical-avalanche-forecasting
  • Daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen and Independence Creeks, Sierra Nevada, USA

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • groundwater
    • streamflow
    • diel-cycle
    • snowmelt
    • sap-flow
    • ecohydrology
    • evapotranspiration
    • diurnal-cycle
  • Calibration data for empirical mortality models of 18 European tree species

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset comprises > 90 000 records from inventories in 54 strict forest reserves in...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • empirical-mortality-models
    • inventory-data
    • tree-mortality
    • forest-reserves
    • tree-growth
  • Land use/cover dynamics in Austin metropolitan area since 1992

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    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Zhao C, Weng Q, Hersperger A M. Characterizing the 3-D urban morphology transformation to understand urban-form...

    Last updated: February 7, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • urban-morphology
    • land-dynamics
    • landscape
    • austin
    • land-use
  • Hybrid choice modelling dataset for the effects of landscape-technology fit on public evaluations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We present stated preference data based on a national representative Swiss online panel survey for the preference of renewable energy infrastructure in landscapes. The data was...

    Last updated: February 3, 2021

    • PDF
    • CSV
    • perceived-landscape-quality
    • energy
    • survey
    • renewable-energy-meanings
    • hybrid-choice-model
    • stated-choice-model
    • landscape-meanings
    • landscape-technology-fit
    • landscape
    • renewable-energy
    • mixed-renewable-energy-landscapes
  • Napf ERT monitoring data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains the electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) monitoring data from the publication Wicki and Hauck (2022). It contains the unprocessed monitoring data and the...

    Last updated: April 8, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • early-warning
    • monitoring
    • soil-moisture
    • shallow-landslides
    • ert
  • Digitizing historical plague

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    Education, culture and sport

    We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For...

    Last updated: October 1, 2020

    • ZIP
    • palaeo-epidemiology
    • plague-outbreaks
    • plague-inventory
    • black-death
    • historical-plague
    • yersinia-pestis
    • plague-mapping
    • bubonic-plague
  • Basal area

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Sum of the stem cross-section areas of all living trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh (standing and lying) at a height of 1.3 m (dbh measurement height).

    Citation:

    _Abegg,...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • altitudinal-vegetation-zone-3-classes
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi1-nfi2
    • primary-forest-function-nfi4-nature-protection
    • basal-area
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi1-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • dominant-diameter-class-size-10cm
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi2
    • nfi4b
    • processes-in-channels-silvaprotect
    • nfi2
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi3
    • potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting
    • conifers-broadleaves
    • giants
    • nfi1
    • lower-higher-altitudinal-zones
    • canton
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi2-nfi3
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • main-tree-species
    • economic-region
    • site-quality
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • avalanches-silvaprotect
    • forest-type-12-classes
    • diameter-classes
    • ownership
    • 7-classes
    • 56-classes
    • stage-of-stand-development
    • 14-x-14-km-grid
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
    • tree-species-5-classes
    • ownership-nfi4
    • forest-type-and-stage-of-development
    • protection-forest-region
    • diameter-class-size-10-cm
    • forest-communities-kuchler-2008
    • nfi3
    • rockfall-silvaprotect
    • landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect
    • tree-species-woody-species
    • altitudinal-vegetation-zone
    • production-region
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest
    • biogeographical-region
    • forest-district-as-of-2013
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi1
    • protection-forest-perimeter-silvaprotect
    • exposition-8-classes
  • Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Polygons of wet snow avalanches in the Davos area, as documented by the Swiss avalanche warning service. The georeferenced outlines of the avalanches contain both the release as...

    Last updated: December 15, 2021

    • ZIP
    • observations
    • snow
    • shapefile
    • alps
    • avalanches
  • Total timber volume

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Volume of stemwood with bark of all living and dead trees and shrubs (standing and lying) starting at 12 cm dbh. This corresponds to the sum of the volumes of growing stock and...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi2
    • nfi4b
    • biogeographical-region
    • conifers-broadleaves
    • protection-forest-region
    • canton
    • total-timber-volume
    • forest-district-as-of-2013
    • economic-region
    • diameter-at-breast-height-30-cm
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi3
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • ownership-nfi4
    • nfi2
    • lower-higher-altitudinal-zones
    • 14-x-14-km-grid
    • production-region
    • nfi3
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi2-nfi3
    • main-tree-species
    • altitudinal-vegetation-zone
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi1-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest
    • ownership
    • tree-state-alive-dead
    • tree-status
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
    • tree-species-5-classes
  • 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
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • liquid-water-content
    • gnss
    • gps
    • lwc
    • swe
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow
  • Accessibility of the Swiss forest for economic wood extraction (2021)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Two raster maps (10m resolution) of: I) the most suitable extraction method for wood in the Swiss forest, and II) the overall suitability of the Swiss forest for economic wood...

    Last updated: February 2, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • economic-efficiency
    • forest-accessibility
    • forest-roads
    • switzerland
    • timber-transport
    • wood-harvesting
    • wood-extraction
    • forest