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65 datasets found

  • Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain...

    Last updated: January 31, 2022

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    • recreational-activities
    • forest
    • adolescents
    • teenagers
    • childhood
  • Lake_climate_change_scenarios_CH2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "Lake_climate_change_scenarios_CH2018" provides simulation-based climate change impact scenarios for perialpine lakes in Switzerland. These transient future scenarios...

    Last updated: September 5, 2023

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    • lake-level-regulation
    • switzerland
    • hydrologic-and-hydrodynamic-modelling
    • climate-change
    • perialpine-lakes
  • Potentials of domestic biomass resources for the energy transition in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Switzerland has a reliable and cost efficient energy system. Due to phase out of nuclear energy it is necessary to find new options to maintain this powerful energy system. The...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • SERVICE
    • biomass-resources
    • bioenergy
    • sustainability
    • availability
    • potential-assessment
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created during...

    Last updated: February 19, 2023

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    • ZIP
    • icecube
    • microct
    • intercomparison
    • snow
    • specific-surface-area
  • Agricultural biogas plants as a hub to foster circular economy and bioenergy: An assessment using substance and energy flow analysis

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Supplementary material for the publication " Agricultural biogas plants as a hub to foster circular economy and bioenergy: An assessment using material substance and energy flow...

    Last updated: August 26, 2022

    • XLS
    • biogas
    • circular-economy
    • mfa
    • sfa
    • efa
  • 3D_Snow_Models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types are...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

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    • ZIP
    • snow-cast
    • 3d-model
    • weak-layer
    • rounded-snow
    • snow
    • new-snow
    • 3d-print
    • depth-hoar
  • WaMos meets LFI, ganze Schweiz

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data consists of a forest visitor survey conducted at 50 plots in the whole of Switzerland, once during the winter- and once during the summer season. Physical forest...

    Last updated: June 10, 2022

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    • forest-characteristics
    • visual-attractiveness-of-forest
    • visitor-preferences
    • integrating-social-aspects-into-national-forest-inventory
    • seasons
  • Simulating population divergence of Northern chamois in the Alps based on habitat dynamics

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    General description

    Genomic data, habitat suitability raster files and scripts to run gen3sis to simulate cumulative divergence over time as approximation for genetic...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

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    • geogenomics
    • landscape-genetics
    • paleo-environmental-modeling
    • range-dynamics
    • process-based-modeling
    • population-genetics
  • Swiss Canopy Crane II research site

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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    This...

    Last updated: December 4, 2020

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • drought
    • climate-change
    • damage-of-tree
    • ecosystem-functions
    • infrastructure
    • forest
    • swiss-forest-lab
  • Soil fauna drives SOC storage in a long-term irrigated dry pine forest

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data from a 17-year-long irrigation experiment (Pfynwald, Switzerland) in a naturally dry forest dominated by 100-year-old pine trees (Pinus sylvestris). Data include: (1)...

    Last updated: February 7, 2022

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    • forest
    • drought
    • pfynwald
    • fauna-data
    • soil
    • carbon
    • pinus
    • litter
  • Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Overview The SUNWELL Modelling Environment is a combination of data and code that models electricity production from satellite-derived irradiance data and other spatial data sets...

    Last updated: December 16, 2020

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • mountain
    • snow
    • photovoltaic
    • reflection
    • irradiance
    • energy
    • albedo
  • Gone-wild grapevines in forests may act as a potential habitat for “Flavescence dorée” phytoplasma vectors and inoculum

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset used to test the potential role of gone-wild grapevines (GWGV) in forests of Southern Switzerland as a source of Flavescence dorée phytoplasma (FDp) inoculum and as a...

    Last updated: March 20, 2023

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • grapevine-yellows
    • insect-vectors
    • orientus-ishidae
    • vitis
    • scaphoideus-titanus
    • egg-development
    • southern-switzerland
  • Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 54 years of hydrometeorological measurements from small (first-order) catchments in the pre-alpine valley Alptal. Here we provide daily mean values; values...

    Last updated: March 3, 2023

    • XLS
    • first-order-catchment
    • snow
    • meteorological-data
    • subalpine
    • runoff
    • alptal
  • Sediment transport observations in Swiss mountain streams

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL has extensive experience with surrogate bedload transport measurements. The first measuring site was established in the Erlenbach stream, a...

    Last updated: August 23, 2023

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • bedload-transport
    • surrogate-measurement
    • torrent
    • sediment-transport
    • mountain-stream
    • river
  • RoRCC

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "RoRCC" consists of simulation-based results on climate change impacts on Alpine RoR power production; it is based on 21 Swiss RoR power plants, with a total production...

    Last updated: August 11, 2022

    • XLS
    • run-of-river-power-plants
    • hydropower
    • climate-change
    • design-discharge
    • environmental-flow
  • Phosphorus and nitrogen leaching from beech forest soils

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on dissolved organic and inorganic phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations in leachates and their corresponding fluxes from the litter layer, the Oe/Oa horizon, and the A...

    Last updated: July 14, 2021

    • XLS
    • soil-temperature
    • nitrogen
    • fertilization
    • beech
    • zero-tension-lysimeters
    • phosphorus
    • dissolved-organic-phosphorus
    • seasons
    • forest-topsoil
    • nutrient-fluxes
  • Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset includes values for 65 biological and ecological traits and 25 bioclimatic variables for all 1816 bryophytes included in the European...

    Last updated: March 3, 2023

    • TXT
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    • XLS
    • indicator-values
    • iucn
    • liverworts
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • life-history-traits
    • hornworts
    • mosses
    • red-list
  • Weather, snowpack and avalanche occurrence data for automated prediction of wet-snow avalanche activity

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Datasets used to implement the wet-snow avalanche activity model presented in the article:

    Hendrick, M., Techel, F., Volpi, M., Olevski, T., Pérez-Guillén, C., van Herwijnen, A.,...

    Last updated: March 18, 2023

    • CSV
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    • avalanche-forcasting
    • machine-learning
    • avalanche
    • wet-snow-avalanche
    • numerical-avalanche-forecasting
  • Native and no-native plant interactions in Australian grasslands

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data, on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    _Schlierenzauer, C., Risch, A.C., Schütz, M., Firn, J. 2021. Non-native...

    Last updated: October 19, 2021

    • XLS
    • grassland
    • native-plant
    • non-native-plant
    • herbivory
    • weed-management
  • DISCHMEX - Impact of extreme land-surface heterogeneity on micrometeorology over spring snow-cover

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains eddy-covariance measurements in the ablation period of 2014-2016. Measurements were taken from two turbulence towers over a long-lasting snow patch, which are...

    Last updated: September 13, 2023

    • ZIP
    • PNG
    • XLS
    • dischmex
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • patchy-snow-covers
    • snow-patch