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37 datasets found

  • Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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    Education, culture and sport

    The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript (doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822).

    Manuscript...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TXT
    • erosion
    • model
    • snow
    • mars
    • sediment-transport
  • Angle of repose experiments with natural and spherical snow

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    Education, culture and sport

    Angle of repose experiments were performed with different snow types at temperatures between -2 and -40°C. They were used to examine granular snow dynamics on the grain-scale with...

    Last updated: April 22, 2020

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    • discrete-element-modelling
    • angle-of-repose
    • grain-shape
    • granular-snow
    • fast-sintering
  • Hydro-meteorological simulations for the period 1981-2018 for Switzerland

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    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
    • drought-2018
    • precipitation
    • soil-moisture
    • hydrological-simulations
    • discharge
    • prevah
    • low-flow
  • 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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    • SERVICE
    • radiation
    • weisfluhjoch
    • davos
    • longwave-radiation
    • shortwave-radiation
  • Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories in the Antarctic

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    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
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • evaporation
    • backward-trajectories
    • antarctica
    • snow-sublimation
    • isotopic-distillation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • lagrangian-analysis
  • Groundwater time series Studibach (Rinderer et al., 2019, WRR)

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    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
    • groundwater
    • alptal
    • switzerland
    • studibach
    • time-series
  • Ecological properties of urban ecosystems. Biodiversity dataset of Zurich

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    Richness, site occurrence and abundance data of bees, beetles, birds, hoverflies, net-wingeds, true bugs, snails, spiders, milipides, wasps collected in the city of Zurich using...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • TXT
    • insects
    • birds
    • spiders
    • species-abundance-distributions
    • urban-ecology
    • species-richness-models
    • snails
    • urbanization
    • sdms
    • diversity
    • arthropods
  • Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset

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    The Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset includes values for 65 biological and ecological traits and 25 bioclimatic variables for all 1816 bryophytes included in the European...

    Last updated: March 3, 2023

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    • XLS
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    • hornworts
    • indicator-values
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • iucn
    • liverworts
    • red-list
    • life-history-traits
    • mosses
  • ASRB_WFJ: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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    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

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • TXT
    • longwave-radiation
    • incoming
    • weissfluhjoch
    • outgoing
    • shortwave-radiation
  • Stable water isotopes in precipitation and streamflow at Plynlimon, Wales, UK

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    The data base contains timeseries of stable water isotopes in precipitation and streamflow at Plynlimon, Wales, UK. One data set contains weekly stable water isotope data from the...

    Last updated: May 27, 2020

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    • deuterium
    • tracer
    • precipitation
    • chloride
    • plynlimon
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • catchment
    • streamflow
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

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    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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    • SERVICE
    • compression-experiments
    • snow
    • microstructure
    • snow-mechanics
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    A rule-based algorithm (Schwieder et al., 2022) was used to produce annual maps for 2018–2021 of grassland-management events, i.e....

    Last updated: August 3, 2023

    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • PNG
    • land-use
    • management
    • use-intensity
    • landsat
    • grassland
    • mowing
    • sentinel-2
    • remote-sensing
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

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    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

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-depth
    • snow
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow-simulation
    • jim
  • ALS-based snow depth and canopy height maps from flights in 2017 (Grisons, CH and Grand Mesa, CO)

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    This dataset includes snow depth, canopy height and terrain elevation maps of forest stands in the Grisons (CH) and at Grand Mesa (CO,USA) derived from airborne lidar. Data were...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • airborne-laser-scanning
    • forest-structure
    • snow-distribution
    • snow-depth
    • canopy-height
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Dataset of manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland. Typical snow profile measurements and observations are included (temperature, density, grain size,...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • weisfluhjoch
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-density
  • GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

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    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-height
    • snow
    • gcos
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-profile
  • Above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation

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    Despite the common role of above- and below-ground herbivore communities in mediating ecosystem functioning, our understanding of the variation of species communities along natural...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • TXT
    • functional-traits
    • elevation
    • alps
    • community-indices
    • herbivores-communities
    • plant-herbivore-interactions
    • environmental-gradients
  • Long-term meteorological and snow station at 2090 m a.s.l., Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland (1975 - present)

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    Education, culture and sport

    Important

    This EnviDat entry is outdated. The most recent, usable version of the data can be found under the new EnviDat entry "Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos,...

    Last updated: September 12, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • PNG
    • CSV
    • temperature-profiles
    • wind
    • precipitation
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • radiation
  • Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments

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    This dataset contains four years of daily measurements of the natural isotopic composition (2H, 18O) of precipitation and stream water at the Alp catchment (area 47 km2) in Central...

    Last updated: April 27, 2022

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    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • catchment
    • hydrology
    • stream-water
    • stable-water-isotope
    • alptal
    • precipitation
  • 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

    • TXT
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • ice
    • antarctica
    • arctic
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • snow