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290 datasets found

  • Dataset for OGRS 2018 publication

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the road and plot data used for the geospatial analysis example showcased in "Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal", a...

    Last updated: October 28, 2019

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • jupyter
    • gis
    • roads
    • density
    • geospatial
    • buffer
  • Stability tests, avalanche observations, Switzerland, Norway

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Observational data used to quantitatively describe the key elements describing avalanche danger: snowpack stability, the frequency distribution of snowpack stability, and avalanche...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

    • CSV
    • norway
    • extended-column-test
    • avalanche-observations
    • avalanche-danger
    • switzerland
    • rutschblock-test
  • WFJ_MOD: Meteorological and snowpack measurements from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of meteorological and snowpack measurements from the automatic weather station at Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, suitable for driving snowpack models. The dataset...

    Last updated: September 13, 2023

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    • SERVICE
    • longwave-radiation
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • wind-speed
    • wind-direction
    • shortwave-radiation
    • precipitation-amount
    • air-temperature
    • snow-depth
    • humidity
  • snowBedFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian-Lagrangian solver for modelling snow transport

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    snowBedFoam 1.0. is a snow transport solver implemented in the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software OpenFOAM. It is adapted from the standard multi-phase flow solver DPMFoam...

    Last updated: July 23, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • arctic-sea-ice
    • snow-transport
    • mosaic
    • snow-deposition
    • openfoam
  • Raw data-Publication cross-resistance in ash - New Phytologist

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    What are the research data files about: Raw data on perfomance (dry weight, development and mortality) of emerald ash borer larvae used in published bioassays. Raw data on ash...

    Last updated: May 23, 2023

    • XLS
    • fraxinus
    • defense-chemistry
    • ash-dieback
    • intraspecific-variation
    • cross-resistance
    • emerald-ash-borer
    • invasive-species
  • Angle of repose experiments with natural and spherical snow

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • grain-shape
    • granular-snow
    • fast-sintering
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • angle-of-repose
  • Escarpment evolution drives the diversification of the Madagascar flora

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Although much of the endemic biodiversity of Madagascar can be attributed to its isolation as an island in the Indian Ocean, the high rates of speciation throughout its geologic...

    Last updated: September 10, 2023

    • ZIP
    • flora
    • endemism
    • landscape-evolution
    • madagascar
    • geology
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

    Last updated: April 20, 2023

    • SHP
    • hazard-mapping
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • natural-hazard
    • satellite
  • Weather Station Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains weather parameters measured at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577).

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • CSV
    • relative-humidity
    • pressure
    • temperature
    • weather
    • raclets
  • Celerina, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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: September 28, 2020

    • CSV
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
    • temperature
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • wind-speed
    • meteorology
    • climate-change
    • par
  • HYDROpot_integral

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A spatial dataset and tool to simultaneously assess hydropower potential and ecological potential of the Swiss river network (Version 2016)

    Introduction The steadily growing...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • SHP
    • decision-making
    • gis
    • hydropower
    • ecosystem-protection
    • integral-water-management
  • Soil sealing Barcelona and Milan different territorial levels

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset description
    This dataset is a recalculation of the Copernicus 2015 high resolution layer (HRL) of imperviousness density data (IMD) at different spatial/territorial...

    Last updated: May 11, 2022

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • milan
    • soil-sealing
    • copernicus
    • urban-atlas
    • imperviousness
    • barcelona
  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • snow-farming
    • snowpack
    • snow-conservation
    • snow
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • winter-tourism
  • Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A national vegetation height model was calculated for Switzerland using digital aerial images. We used the stereo aerial images acquired by the Federal Office of Topography...

    Last updated: September 12, 2023

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • point-cloud
    • 3d
    • photogrammety
    • forest
    • vegetation-height-model
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • hydrology
    • snowfall
    • climate-change-impacts
    • water-cycle
    • snow
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland since 1937

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

    • CSV
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
  • Snow depth, canopy structure and meterorological datasets from the Davos area, Switzerland, Winters 2012/13-2014/15, used for high-resolution forest snow modelling

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all snow, canopy and meteorological data presented and used in the publication: Mazzotti, G., Essery, R., Moeser, D. & Jonas T. (2020) 'Resolving spatial...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • snow-modelling
    • forest-structure
    • snow-distribution
    • snow-energy-balance
    • forest-snow
  • Multiple realizations of daily snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation projections for mid- and late-century

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains for three variables (snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation) 50 realizations of current and future climate periods for two time...

    Last updated: August 10, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • natural-climate-variability
    • cryosphere
    • climate-change-impact
    • rain-on-snow
    • uncertainty
  • Groundwater time series Studibach (Rinderer et al., 2019, WRR)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • time-series
    • studibach
    • groundwater
    • switzerland
    • alptal
  • Aerosol Data Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Aerosol properties were measured between February 8 and March 31 2019 at the measurement site Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.806475, LAT: 46.832964). Optical and aerodynamic particle...

    Last updated: March 6, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • raclets
    • ice-nucleation
    • particles
    • inp
    • linda
    • aerosol