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428 datasets found

  • REMA topography and AntarcticaLC2000 for WRF

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) topography and AntarcticaLC2000 landuse data are now available as static data input for the Weather Research and Forecasting model...

    Last updated: November 25, 2020

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • antarctica
    • cryowrf
    • landuse
    • topography
    • wrf
  • Cropland and grassland map of Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We developed a map of cropland and grassland allocation for Switzerland based on several indices dominantly derived from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery captured over multiple growing...

    Last updated: March 29, 2021

    • GeoTIFF
    • SERVICE
    • TIFF
    • agriculture
    • cropland
    • grassland
    • habitat
    • machine-learning
    • phenology
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • switzerland
    • vegetation-indices
  • CCN, hygroscopicity, predicted cloud droplet numbers Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) data: A Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) single-column continuous-flow streamwise thermal gradient chamber (CFSTGC; Roberts and Nenes, 2005)...

    Last updated: December 17, 2020

    • CSV
    • ccn
    • cloud-droplets
    • cloud-modeling
    • dmt-ccn-chamber
    • hygroscopicity
    • raclets
    • sigma-w
    • supersaturation
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Predicted cloud droplet numbers Davos Wolfgang

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    Education, culture and sport

    Cloud droplet properties were predicted between February 24 and March 8 2019 for the measurement site Davos Wolfgang (1630 m a.s.l., LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577). Droplet...

    Last updated: December 17, 2020

    • CSV
    • cloud-droplets
    • cloud-modeling
    • raclets
    • sigma-w
    • supersaturation
    • wolfgangpass
  • Groundwater time series Studibach (Rinderer et al., 2019, WRR)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Groundwater time series between 2010 and 2014 of the distributed monitoring system in the Studibach (C7), Alptal, Switzerland. Data published in Rinderer M., van Meerveld I,...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

    • TXT
    • alptal
    • groundwater
    • studibach
    • switzerland
    • time-series
  • 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

    • CSV
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • acclimation
    • drought
    • fluorescence
    • gas-exchange
    • photosynthesis
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • vpd
  • ALS-based snow depth and canopy height maps from flights in 2017 (Grisons, CH and Grand Mesa, CO)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes snow depth, canopy height and terrain elevation maps of forest stands in the Grisons (CH) and at Grand Mesa (CO,USA) derived from airborne lidar. Data were...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • airborne-laser-scanning
    • canopy-height
    • forest-structure
    • snow-depth
    • snow-distribution
  • Snow depth, canopy structure and meterorological datasets from the Davos area, Switzerland, Winters 2012/13-2014/15, used for high-resolution forest snow modelling

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all snow, canopy and meteorological data presented and used in the publication: Mazzotti, G., Essery, R., Moeser, D. & Jonas T. (2020) 'Resolving spatial...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • forest-snow
    • forest-structure
    • snow-distribution
    • snow-energy-balance
    • snow-modelling
  • Restoring grassland multifunctionality

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Please cite this paper together with the citation for the datafile.

    Resch, M. C., Schütz, M., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U., van der Putten, W. H., Zimmermann, S., Risch, A. C....

    Last updated: October 19, 2021

    • XLS
    • bacteria
    • biodiversity
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • fungi
    • grassland
    • mineralization
    • nematodes
    • plants
    • restoration
    • soil-biodiversity
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at 4...

    Last updated: December 22, 2021

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • gnss
    • gps
    • liquid-water-content
    • lwc
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • swe
  • Grassland restoration: nematodes and plant communities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Resch, M.C., Schütz, M., Graf, U., Wagenaar, R., van der Putten, W.H., Risch,...

    Last updated: October 19, 2021

    • XLS
    • diversity
    • grassland
    • long-term-experiment
    • nematodes
    • restoration
    • topsoil-removal
    • vegetation
  • Simulated avalanche problem types and seismic avalanche activity around Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Avalanche problem types were derived from snow cover simulations with the models Crocus and SNOWPACK at the Weissfluhjoch study plot, Davos, CH. The data include annual frequencies...

    Last updated: December 14, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • avalanche-danger
    • avalanche-problem-type
    • crocus
    • snow
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • snow-instability
    • snowpack
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the parallel application and the main results supporting the research article "Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion"...

    Last updated: December 8, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • drifting-snow
    • large-eddy-simulations
    • mixed-grain-transport
    • saltation
    • snow-cohesion
  • Production de biogaz à partir d’engrais de ferme en Suisse

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    L'objectif de ce livre blanc est de fournir aux décideurs, aux administrations et aux parties prenantes les résultats de recherche les plus récents afin de promouvoir l'utilisation...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

    • PDF
    • bioenergy
    • biogas
    • manure
    • review
    • switzerland
  • Biogas from animal manure in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Aim of this white paper is to provide decision-makers, administrations and stakeholders with the most current research findings in order to promote the optimal use of bioenergy...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

    • PDF
    • bioenergy
    • biogas
    • manure
    • review
    • switzerland
  • Amphibian and urban-rural landscape data Swiss Lowlands

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data includes (1) amphibian occurrence data (2017-2019) for ten species across the cantons of Aargau and Zürich gathered from the Coordination Center for the Protection of...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • biodiversity
    • circuit-theory
    • ecological-corridors
    • human-dominated-landscapes
    • integrated-modelling
    • urban-spatial-planning
  • 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

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • PDF
    • adolescents
    • childhood
    • forest
    • recreational-activities
    • teenagers
  • Greenland shrubs and microclimate

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Study Aim

    We collected these data to alternatively train and validate high resolution (~ 90 m) Species Distribution Models (SDMs) and Species Abundance Models (SAMs) for _Betula...

    Last updated: February 9, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • accessible-shrub-forest
    • arctic
    • climate
    • field-data
    • sdm
    • validation
  • Aerosol Data Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Aerosol properties were measured between February 8 and March 31 2019 at the measurement site Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577). Optical and aerodynamic particle...

    Last updated: March 6, 2022

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • aerosol
    • drincz
    • ice-nucleation
    • inp
    • particles
    • raclets
  • Aerosol Data Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Aerosol properties were measured between February 8 and March 31 2019 at the measurement site Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.806475, LAT: 46.832964). Optical and aerodynamic particle...

    Last updated: March 6, 2022

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • aerosol
    • ice-nucleation
    • inp
    • linda
    • particles
    • raclets