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487 datasets found

  • The Habitat Map of Switzerland v1_2 2025

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    Lebensraumkarte der Schweiz v1.2 2025/La carte des milieux naturels de Suisse v1.2 2025 The FOEN funded project ‘The Habitat Map of Switzerland:continual improvement’ conducted at...

    Last updated: December 23, 2025

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    • dwarf-shrubs
    • ensemble-modelling
    • forest
    • grasslands
    • habitat-modelling
    • lebensraumkarte
    • lidar
    • milieux-naturels
    • random-forest
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • shrub-forest
    • tof
    • typoch
    • urban
    • wetland
  • Canopy air temperatures in subalpine forests during three snow seasons

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    This dataset forms the base of the paper 'Contrasting canopy air temperatures across complex terrain during the snow season' submitted to JGR Atmospheres. It aims to ensure full...

    Last updated: December 22, 2025

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    • canopy-cover
    • forest-canopy
    • forest-snow
    • snow
    • subalpine
  • Literature based approach to estimate future snow

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    Base data which were used for the methodology projecting future regional snow depths based on temperature scenarios. This study was supported by Seilbahnen Schweiz, Schweiz...

    Last updated: December 22, 2025

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    • alps
    • climate-change
    • future
    • snow-climatology
    • snow-depth
  • Data for the publication "Secondary ice production processes in wintertime alpine mixed-phase clouds"

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    This repository contains all WRF model outputs and observational data sets used for the paper: Georgakaki, P., Sotiropoulou, G., Vignon, É., Billault-Roux, A.-C., Berne, A., and...

    Last updated: December 18, 2025

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    • blowing-snow
    • ice-crystal-number-concentration
    • ice-water-content
    • jungfraujoch
    • liquid-water-content
    • secondary-ice-production
    • swiss-alps
    • wrf
  • Assessing ecosystem state with environmental DNA of aquatic insects

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    Data associated to the publication "Environmental DNA sequences from aquatic insects indicate freshwater ecosystem state" Authors: Flurin Leugger, Martina Lüthi, Meret Jucker,...

    Last updated: December 16, 2025

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    • aquatic-invertebrates
    • biodiversity-monitoring
    • biomonitoring
    • conservation
    • crispr-dx
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • edna
    • landuse
    • river-restoration
  • Base cation dynamics in an Oriental beech forest

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    Throughfall, litterflow and soil solution were sampled during one whole year under five Oriental beech trees in a mixed Hyrcanian beech forest. The amounts of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ and...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • calcium
    • fagus-orientalis-lipsky
    • magnesium
    • potassium
  • Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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    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

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    • erosion
    • mars
    • model
    • sediment-transport
    • snow
  • 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

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    • TXT
    • discharge
    • drought-2018
    • hydrological-simulations
    • low-flow
    • precipitation
    • prevah
    • soil-moisture
  • Data Broedlin CNP

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    Mircocosm experiment to identify the individual patterns and controls of C, N, and P mobilization in soils under beech forests. Organic and mineral horizons sampled along a...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • carbon
    • dissolved-organic-matter
    • drying-rewetting
    • forest
    • mineralization
    • nitrogen
    • phosphorus
    • soil
    • stoichiometry
  • History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1850

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    Naturally, large parts of the Swiss Plateau are characterised by wetlands and meandering rivers. That this is no longer the case today is the result of centuries of efforts to...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • ecology
    • environmental---history
    • environmental--policy
    • historical-carthography
    • switzerland
    • wetlands
  • GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

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    This data set includes GPS-derived snow water equivalent (SWE), snow depth (HS) and liquid water content (LWC) data for three entire snow-covered seasons (2015-2016, 2016-2017,...

    Last updated: November 29, 2019

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    • gps
    • liquid-water-content
    • snow
    • snow-cover
    • snow-depth
  • Othmarsingen, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    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 2, 2019

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    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • meteo
    • meteorology
    • par
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Novaggio, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    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 2, 2019

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    • climate-change
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    • meteo
    • meteorology
    • par
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Neunkirch, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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

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    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • meteo
    • meteorology
    • par
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Lausanne, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    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

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    • climate-change
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    • meteorology
    • par
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Visp, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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

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    • climate-change
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    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Nationalpark, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    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

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    • climate-change
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    • meteorology
    • par
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    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Lens, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    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

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    • climate-change
    • long-term
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    • meteorology
    • par
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Chironico, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 2000 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    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

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    • climate-change
    • long-term
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    • meteorology
    • par
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    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Isone, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    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

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