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290 datasets found

  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • snow-density
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • weisfluhjoch
  • Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

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    Education, culture and sport

    Total water reserves of the snow cover [mio m3] for Wägital catchment, Switzerland, for reference date April 1. Data is separated in 2 elevation zones 900m-1500m asl and...

    Last updated: April 19, 2023

    • TXT
    • gcos
    • wagital
    • meteodat-gmbh
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow
  • Automatic detection of avalanches

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduced...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • avalanche-activity
    • hidden-markov-model
    • monitoring
    • seismic
  • Processed permafrost borehole data (2940 m asl), Gemsstock, Switzerland

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    Processed ground temperature measurements at the Gemsstock permafrost borehole in canton Uri, Switzerland. The borehole is located at 2940 m asl on a steep (50°) North-West...

    Last updated: March 11, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • permafrost
    • gemsstock
    • temperature
    • permos
    • borehole
  • Individual tree TLS point clouds for tree volume estimation

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset This dataset is based on terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data acquired during winter 2020/2021 in leaf-off conditions, with a Leica BLK 360 instrument following a...

    Last updated: August 30, 2023

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • biomass
    • forest-inventory
    • lidar
    • tree-volume
    • single-tree
  • Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories in the Antarctic

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    Education, culture and sport

    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
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • backward-trajectories
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • antarctica
    • snow-sublimation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • isotopic-distillation
    • evaporation
  • Data from: Does one model fit all? patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions

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    Education, culture and sport

    The datasets comprise nearly 19’000 trees of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) from unmanaged forests in Switzerland, Germany / Lower Saxony and Ukraine. Tree death was...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • forest-inventory
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • tree-mortality
    • primeval-forests
    • forest-reserves
    • mortality-models
  • Ceilometer Klosters

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    Education, culture and sport

    Cloud base height (m) and vertical visibility (m) were measured with the VAISALA Ceilometer CL31 in Klosters (LON: 9.880413, LAT: 46.869019). The CL31 is an instrument with...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

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    • raclets
    • vertical-visibility
    • ceilometer
    • klosters
    • cloud-base-height
  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

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    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
    • snow
    • snowpack
    • winter-tourism
    • snow-conservation
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
  • Causal effect of MFOZ

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    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Closer to causality: How effective is spatial planning in governing built-up land expansion in Fujian Province, China?

    Research objective: The Major Function Oriented Zone...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • selection-bias
    • the-major-function-oriented-zone
    • fujian-province
    • built-up-land-change
    • causality
    • propensity-score-matching