The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research is concerned with the use, development and protection of natural and urban spaces. The focus of our research is on solving problems to do with the responsible use of landscapes and forests and a prudent approach to natural hazards, especially those common in mountainous countries. WSL occupies a leading position internationally in these research areas. We also provide groundwork for sustainable environmental policies in Switzerland.

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  • Nationalpark, 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
    • climate-change
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteo
    • meteorology
  • Bettlachstock, 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
    • precipitation
    • temperature
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • long-term
  • High resolution monthly precipitation and temperature timeseries for the period 2006-2100

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    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

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    • precipitation-amount
    • air-temperature
    • orographic-precipitation
    • cmip5
    • climate-change
  • LWF Othmarsingen long-term research site

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    Education, culture and sport

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    LWF...

    Last updated: November 5, 2019

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    • lwf
    • meteorological-measurements
    • plot
    • infrastructure
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • forest
    • meteorological-data
  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

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    In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

    Last updated: February 16, 2022

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    • natural-hazards
    • trajectory
    • experiments
    • field-data
    • field-test
    • field-tests
    • rockfall
    • experiment
    • mass-movements
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

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    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

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    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-failure
    • snow-micro-mechanics
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow
  • Impulse response functions for nonlinear nonstationary and heterogeneous systems

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    The R script IRFnnhs.R, which efficiently estimates impulse response functions for environmental systems that are nonlinear, nonstationary, or heterogeneous, based on their input...

    Last updated: April 28, 2022

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    • deconvolution
    • time-series-analysis
    • de-mixing
    • arma-noise
    • transfer-function
    • irfnnhsr
    • impulse-response-function
    • greens-function
    • system-identification
    • irf
    • nonlinear-deconvolution
  • Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)

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    In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all 12...

    Last updated: September 21, 2023

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    • landscape
    • occupancy-models
    • amphibians
    • wetlands
    • conservation
  • Forest area by natural hazard

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    For each natural hazard process according to FOEN’s SilvaProtectCH, the size of the forest area affected is given. One forest region may be affected by several different natural...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

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    • economic-region
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
    • nfi1
    • nfi4b
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi1-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi2
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi1
    • forest-area
    • nfi3
    • protection-forest-region
    • forest-area-by-natural-hazard
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi3
    • production-region
    • biogeographical-region
    • nfi2
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • forest
    • canton
    • natural-hazard
  • TRAMM project - experimental hydrological and hydrogeological dataset of a landslide prone hillslope. Rufiberg, Switzerland

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    Rufiberg is a pre-alpine meadow site in Switzerland where shallow landslides have been observed after past intense rain storms. In order to assess the triggering mechanisms of...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

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    • soil-moisture-water-content
    • hydrology
    • meadow
    • water-table
    • landslides
  • Carabid beetles in forests

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    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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    • arthropoda
    • forest
    • coleoptera
    • trapping
    • carabidae
    • insects
    • running-beetles
  • Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

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    This research data is used to re includes 1 km resolution seed plant species range maps for the Hengduan mountain region (southwest China), elevation information for each species,...

    Last updated: July 27, 2023

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    • CSV
    • hypervolume
    • model-residuals
    • hengduan-mountains
    • phytodiversity
    • habitat-heterogeneity
  • An ice oxygen K-edge NEXAFS spectroscopy data set on gas-phase processing

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    Data are compiled that have been used to demonstrate the impact of high water partial pressure on X-ray absorption spectra of ice.

    Last updated: January 19, 2023

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    • laboratory-study
    • atmosphere
    • chemistry
    • snow-atmosphere-interactions
    • ice
  • Tree rings and climate data of four tree species in Switzerland

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    Raw tree ring data and climate used in the following paper: Vitasse Y, Bottero A, Cailleret M et al. (2019) Contrasting resistance and resilience to extreme drought and late spring...

    Last updated: February 15, 2023

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    • frost-risk
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climatic-water-balance
    • extreme-climatic-events
    • climate-warming
    • dendrochronology
    • tree-phenology
  • Yield

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    Volume of stemwood with bark of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh that were felled between two inventories. The correction for bias with the sample Tarif trees may be so...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

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    • altitude-400-m-classes
    • processes-in-channels-silvaprotect
    • conifers-broadleaves
    • rockfall-silvaprotect
    • yield
    • nfi2-nfi3
    • 14-x-14-km-grid
    • main-tree-species
    • production-region
    • protection-forest-perimeter-silvaprotect
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
    • avalanches-silvaprotect
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi1-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • nfi3-nfi4b
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi2-nfi3
    • ownership
    • forest-type-12-classes
    • 56-classes
    • tree-species-woody-species
    • economic-region
    • altitudinal-vegetation-zone
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting
    • protection-forest-region
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • net-increment
    • biogeographical-region
    • lower-higher-altitudinal-zones
    • stage-of-stand-development
    • landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect
  • LUSzoning: Land-use simulations integrating zoning regulations in Spanish functional urban areas

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    Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "LUSzoning”; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set LUSzoning; 3. The data set LUSzoning.

    1. General context of...

    Last updated: July 20, 2021

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    • spatial-planning
    • land-use-simulations
    • land-use-transformations
    • land-use-change
    • digital-zoning-plans
  • 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

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    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi2-nfi3
    • main-tree-species
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
    • ownership-nfi4
    • forest-district-as-of-2013
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi3
    • altitudinal-vegetation-zone
    • tree-state-alive-dead
    • economic-region
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi1-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • diameter-at-breast-height-30-cm
    • biogeographical-region
    • protection-forest-region
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest
    • 14-x-14-km-grid
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi2
    • lower-higher-altitudinal-zones
    • canton
    • nfi2
    • tree-species-5-classes
    • total-timber-volume
    • tree-status
    • conifers-broadleaves
    • nfi3
    • ownership
    • production-region
    • nfi4b
  • Turbulence in The Strongly Heterogeneous Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow

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    Data and code for the publication. The data is raw data. Processed data can be obtained upon request.

    Last updated: June 19, 2023

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    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • snow-melt
    • surface-heat-exchange
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • patchy-snow-cover
  • Full content of WSL Fauna Database

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    Complete extract of Fauna Database of WSL, containing all projects and all taxa. Meant as exchange and citation platform for sharing the data with the national data centre 'Centre...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

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    • database
    • invertebarates
    • arthropods
    • wsl
    • collections
  • Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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    Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and...

    Last updated: July 16, 2020

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    • metamorphism
    • alpine
    • snow
    • laboratory-study
    • arctic
    • brine
    • reaction
    • chemistry
    • ozone
    • interface
    • heterogeneous
    • antarctica
    • solution