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290 datasets found

  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • field-test
    • rockfall
    • field-data
    • trajectory
    • experiments
    • natural-hazards
    • mass-movements
    • experiment
    • field-tests
  • Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand...

    Last updated: September 26, 2023

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • biodiversity
    • statistical-interpolation
    • forest
    • ecology
    • microclimate
    • radiation-transfer
  • Root-traits

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    Education, culture and sport

    Fine-root traits of Scots pine in response to enhanced soil water availability deriving from long-term irrigation in the Pfynwald

    Data_Fig.1.xlsx Fine-root biomass of the topsoil...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

    • ZIP
    • soil-coring
    • drought
    • belowground-biomass
    • fine-root-traits
    • ingrowth-cores
  • Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment Pfynwald, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To study the performance of mature Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) under chronic drought conditions in comparison to their immediate physiological response to drought release, a...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • irrigation
    • forest
    • scots-pine
    • crown-condition
    • tree
    • drought
    • dbh
    • tree-species
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • lwf
    • diameter-at-breast-height
  • Data reliability study: avalanche size estimates and outlines

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the data used and collected to investigate the reliability of avalanche size estimates and avalanche outlines (see related publications). Namely this is

    ...

    Last updated: September 1, 2023

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    • avalanche-size-estimation
    • avalanche-mapping
    • reliability
    • remote-sensing
    • avalanche
  • Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil

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    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper entitled “The role of spatial planning in land change: An assessment of urban planning and nature conservation...

    Last updated: January 6, 2022

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • SHP
    • SERVICE
    • built-up-classification
    • urban-compactness
    • basic-services
    • urban-morphology
    • planning-outcome
    • forest-persistence
    • spatial-modelling
    • nature-conservation
    • forest-gain
    • topography
    • urban-sprawl
    • land-use-and-cover-change
  • Ice nucleating particle concentrations active at -15 °C at Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains number concentrations of ice-nucleating particles active at -15 °C observed at Weissfluhjoch during February and March 2019, as well as complementary data...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

    • CSV
    • backward-trajectories
    • aerosol
    • raclets
    • ice-nucleation
    • clouds
  • Cloud Optimized Raster Encoding (CORE) format

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    DISCLAIMER: CORE is still in development. Interested parties are warmly invited to join common development, to comment, discuss, find bugs, etc.

    Acknowledgement: The CORE format...

    Last updated: November 8, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • sentinel-2
    • core
    • geodata
    • time-series
    • gridded-data
    • video-encoding
    • raster
    • research-data-management
  • Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs provides estimates of current and future water supply, water demand, and storage volumes for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland. Water...

    Last updated: December 15, 2020

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • reservoirs
    • water-scarcity
    • water-supply
    • water-demand
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download from swisstopo website

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. As an alternative to using the ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’...

    Last updated: August 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • cable-yarding
    • digital-planning
    • qgis-plugin
    • digital-elevation-model
    • open-source
    • swisstopo
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geodata
    • geoinformation-software
  • Impulse response functions for nonlinear nonstationary and heterogeneous systems

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • time-series-analysis
    • greens-function
    • de-mixing
    • nonlinear-deconvolution
    • transfer-function
    • impulse-response-function
    • irfnnhsr
    • deconvolution
    • irf
    • system-identification
    • arma-noise
  • Terrestrial laser scans on Hammarryggen Ice Rise, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Surface topography maps (spatial extent: 400 m x 400 m) obtained at approximately 300 m from the top of the Hammarryggen Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, using a...

    Last updated: September 20, 2023

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • gridded-data
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • antarctica
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • depth-of-snowfall
  • Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data obtained in the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment at Hofstetten, NW Switzerland, between 2009 and 2016. This dataset contains analyses of the soil solution throughout...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • picea-abies
    • nitrogen
    • face
    • forest
    • co2
    • soil
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Stable water isotopes (δ18O) obtained from snow and ice samples of polar regions are used to reconstruct past climate variability, but heat and mass transport processes can affect...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • metamorphism
    • snow
    • advection
    • stable-water-isotope
    • 18o
  • How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We used five different atmospheric turbulence datasets from four test sites, with these sites showing differences in their topographical characteristics. We chose one typical...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • atmosphere
    • stable-boundary-layer
    • snow
  • Discharge, rainfall, and deuterium compositions of streamwater, rainwater and groundwater, for four rainfall events in the Studibach, Alptal, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes discharge and rainfall measurements and deuterium compositions of streamflow, rainfall and groundwater, for four rainfall events and three baseflow snapshot...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

    • CSV
    • groundwater
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • alptal
    • runoff
    • streamflow
  • An ice oxygen K-edge NEXAFS spectroscopy data set on gas-phase processing

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • chemistry
    • atmosphere
    • snow-atmosphere-interactions
    • laboratory-study
    • ice
  • UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in the...

    Last updated: December 14, 2020

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • dem
    • gletscher
    • dsm
    • griesgletscher
    • drone
    • sankt-annafirn
    • glacier
    • uav
    • orthoimage
    • orthophoto
    • alps
    • findelengletscher
  • Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland at 2090 m a.s.l.

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Background information The Stillberg ecological treeline research site is located in the transition zone between the relatively humid climate of the Northern Alps and the...

    Last updated: September 29, 2023

    • ZIP
    • wind-direction
    • soil-temperature
    • snow-depth
    • relative-humidity
    • air-pressure
    • shortwave-radiation
    • treeline
    • wind-speed
    • air-temperature
    • stillberg
    • dew-point-temperature
    • precipitation-sum
  • Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

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