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593 datasets found

  • Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1995-1996

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This data collection contains information concerning all accidents by snow avalanches causing at least one fatality in...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • avalanche-accidents
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • number-of-dead-persons
    • number-of-caught-persons
    • avalanche-fatalities
  • Data set on snow instability

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    These data on snow instability include three data subsets that were analyzed and the results published by Reuter and Schweizer (2018) who suggest a novel framework on how to...

    Last updated: February 2, 2020

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    • failure-initiation
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • crack-propagation
    • propgatoin-saw-test
    • rutschblock
    • slab-tensile-support
    • weak-layer
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • slab
    • snow-avalanche
  • Root mass of live trees (Zell, Wutzler)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dry weight (mass) of the belowground part (roots) of living trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh. The dimensions of the roots are determined according to Zell and...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

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    • canton
    • nfi4b
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • biogeographical-region
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi3
    • protection-forest-region
    • nfi3
    • root-mass-of-live-trees-zell
    • economic-region
    • conifers-broadleaves
    • production-region
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest
    • wutzler
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
  • Biomass of total dead wood

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dry weight (mass) of all deadwood. This consists of the standing dead trees and shrubs starting at 12cm dbh and the lying deadwood starting at 7cm in diameter.

    Citation:

    ...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

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    • protection-forest-region
    • biogeographical-region
    • ownership
    • biomass-of-total-dead-wood
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • nfi4b
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
    • economic-region
    • production-region
    • canton
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi3
    • nfi3
  • Input datasets for forest snow modelling in Fluela valley, WY 2016-21

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains surface datasets (in particular canopy structure fields) and meteorological input (water years 2016-2021) required to run the snow model FSM2 over the Fluela...

    Last updated: July 27, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • snow-modeling
    • forest-canopy
    • snow-hydrology
    • forest-snow
    • meteorological-data
  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • Wind-Topo_model

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Wind-Topo is a statistical downscaling model for near surface wind fields especially suited for highly complex terrain.

    It is based on deep learning and was trained (calibrated)...

    Last updated: March 16, 2022

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    • topography
    • high-resolution
    • meteorology
    • machine-learning
    • complex-terrain
    • downscaling
    • convolutional-neural-networks
    • surface-winds
  • Electrodermal Activity (EDA) of Bi-cultural Visitors In Virtual Park Settings

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data on EDA measurements of visitors with different cultural backgrounds in virtual urban park settings. The parks are a Persian garden (Shiraz, Iran) and...

    Last updated: December 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • sense-of-place
    • urban-ecology
    • landscape
    • electrodermal-activity
    • place-attachment
  • 2013-2020 gas exchange at Pfynwald

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Gas exchange was measured on control, irrigated and irrigation-stop trees at the irrigation experiment Pfynwald, during the years 2013, 2014, 2016-2020. The measurement campaigns...

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

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    • SERVICE
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • acclimation
    • drought
    • fluorescence
    • photosynthesis
    • gas-exchange
    • vpd
  • Deadwood survey Sanasilva 2013

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Assessment of coarse woody debris on Sanasilva plots (16x16 km grid) using the full count methods on subplots applying BioSoil protocoll

    Purpose:

    Assessing the amount of coarse...

    Last updated: September 3, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • long-term-forest-ecosystem-research
    • coarse-woody-debris
    • deadwood
    • icp-forests
    • swiss-forest-lab
  • High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Static input data (topography, landuse and soiltype) for the WRF preprocessing system WPS is provided for Switzerland and its neighboring countries between 45-49 N and 4-12 E. The...

    Last updated: July 16, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • wrf
    • landuse
    • static-data
    • cryowrf
    • cosmo-wrf
    • topography
  • Volume of bole wood (HG 2000)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Wood volume of the stem without bark or stump at least 7 cm in diameter (limit of coarse wood) of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh, based on the stem-form functions...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • main-tree-species
    • biogeographical-region
    • nfi3
    • production-region
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi3
    • conifers-broadleaves
    • volume-of-bole-wood-hg-2000
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi1-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • canton
    • protection-forest-region
    • economic-region
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
    • type-of-assortment
    • timber-assortment-classes-hg-2000
    • tree-species-5-classes
  • Mortality of regeneration: Acer spp. and Fagus sylvatica

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    One individual per species, vitality class (low and high) and height class (eight classes: 0–10, 11–20, 21–35, 36–60, 61–90, 91–130, 131–200 and 201–500 cm) was randomly selected...

    Last updated: November 4, 2021

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    • CSV
    • mortality-rate
    • acer
    • shade-tolerance
    • lar
    • fagus
    • regeneration
    • dominance
  • Soil solution monitoring of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Program

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Since 1997 soil solution samplers are installed in certain plots of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Program *[Intercantonal Forest Observation...

    Last updated: January 27, 2023

    • CSV
    • long-term-forest-ecosystem-research
    • long-term-monitoring
    • wdb
    • soil-solution-chemistry
    • swiss-forest-lab
  • How is avalanche danger described in textual descriptions in avalanche forecasts in Switzerland?

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contains the danger descriptions (German) of the avalanche forecasts published at 5 pm between 27-Nov-2012 and 13-Feb-2020.

    Last updated: January 12, 2022

    • CSV
    • consistency
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-bulletin
    • switzerland
    • danger-description
    • avalanche-danger
    • avalanche-forecast
  • Automatic Classification of Avalanches

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the classification and localization results obtained during the automatic classification of avalanches during the winter season 2017.

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • localization
    • machine-learning
    • seismic
    • avalanche
    • monitoring
  • Snow Depth Mapping

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 2m generated from image matching of ADS 80/100 data. Image acquisition took place at peak of winter (time...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • PDF
    • TIFF
    • image-matching
    • snow-depth
    • avalanche
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • dsm
    • aerial-imagery
    • snow-hydrology
  • Isone, 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: December 3, 2019

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • temperature
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • wind-speed
    • par
    • long-term
    • meteorology
    • precipitation
  • Nationalpark, 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: December 3, 2019

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