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290 datasets found

  • Causal effect of MFOZ

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • the-major-function-oriented-zone
    • propensity-score-matching
    • causality
    • built-up-land-change
    • selection-bias
    • fujian-province
  • Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples

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    For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered...

    Last updated: December 16, 2020

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    • unconfined-compression-experiments
    • 3d-ct-images
    • snow-mechanics
    • microstructure
    • spherical-model-snow
    • discrete-element-modelling
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

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    Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological parameter...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • meteorological-data
    • meteorological-measurements
    • dischmex
    • dischma
    • meteo-station
  • MOSAIC Snow on Sea Ice Data

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    Data accompanying David Wagners' Dissertation. Covers model results and various input from ALPINE3D and SNOWPACK adjusted for sea ice during MOSAiC.

    Last updated: March 12, 2023

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    • arctic-sea-ice
    • drifting-and-blowing-snow
    • surface-mass-balance
    • snow-distribution
    • spatial-variability
  • Data from: Does one model fit all? patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions

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    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

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    • forest-reserves
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • mortality-models
    • tree-mortality
    • forest-inventory
    • primeval-forests
  • Mountain Permafrost Hydrology

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    Education, culture and sport

    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). In earlier reports such as the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2019

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    • climate-change-impacts
    • mass-movements
    • ice-rich-permafrost
    • permafrost-degradation
    • mountain-permafrost-hydrology
    • monitoring-techniques
  • Monitoring of ash trees as part of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Programme

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    In 2013, the Institute for Applied Plant Biology (IAP) started a monitoring programme to study the development and the spatial variation of the ash dieback disease with the aim to...

    Last updated: June 3, 2021

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    • iap
    • forest
    • ash-dieback
    • fraxinus
    • monitoring
  • From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions. Book of Abstracts

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    Education, culture and sport

    Book of abstracts from the virtual conference "From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions"

    Cities and urban regions are among the most dynamic land-use systems in the...

    Last updated: May 18, 2021

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    • landscape-planning
    • urban-planning
    • concur
    • land-change
    • urban-landscape
  • ASRB_WFJVF: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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    Incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave 2 min radiation measurements at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos, CH. The experimental site at the Weissfluhjoch (WFJ, 46.83 N,...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

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    • weisfluhjoch
    • longwave-radiation
    • davos
    • radiation
    • shortwave-radiation
  • Nanoplastics in forests: Exploring the effects of nanoplastics on forest soils and tree physiology (NanoPlast)

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    Education, culture and sport

    The fate of plastic in the environment is of global concern, because its production recently has increased strongly and it accumulates in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems....

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • nanoplastic
    • uptake
    • 13c-labelling
    • polystyrene
    • forest-trees
  • 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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    • meteorology
    • relative-humidity
    • wind-speed
    • precipitation
    • temperature
    • meteo
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • par
    • climate-change
  • Non-Binary Environmental Archive Data (NEAD) format

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    Education, culture and sport

    Acknowledgement: The NEAD format includes NetCDF metadata and is proudly inspired by both SMET and NetCDF formats. NEAD is designed as a long-term data preservation and exchange...

    Last updated: February 28, 2023

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    • SERVICE
    • research-data-management
    • metadata-convention
    • csv
    • meteorological-data-format
    • nead
  • Biogas from animal manure in Switzerland

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    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

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    • switzerland
    • manure
    • bioenergy
    • review
    • biogas
  • Supporting information for case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of fungi

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    Resources associated with the manuscript A case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of fungi (Schlegel et al. 2023, submitted). Airborne environmental...

    Last updated: October 3, 2023

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    • edna
    • air-sampling
    • metabarcoding
    • spore-dispersal
    • monitoring
  • Data on wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity in Switzerland

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    Raw data supporting the paper "Countrywide wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity reveal a spatial mismatch between alpha and beta-diversity facets across multiple ecological...

    Last updated: January 19, 2023

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    • elevation-gradient
    • anthophila
    • beta-diversity
    • biodiversity
    • switzerland
    • wild-bee
    • protected-areas
    • resource-availability
    • urbanization
    • functional-diversity
    • predictive-modelling
    • climate
    • community-indices
    • hymenoptera
  • 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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    • magnesium
    • potassium
    • calcium
    • fagus-orientalis-lipsky
    • biogeochemical-cycling
  • Beatenberg, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    Education, culture and sport

    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: January 16, 2020

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    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • climate-change
    • par
    • meteorology
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
    • wind-speed
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

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    This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees and...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

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    • TXT
    • shading
    • fractional-snow
    • longwave-radiation
    • shortwave-radiation
    • forest
  • Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1995-1996

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    Education, culture and sport

    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This data collection contains information concerning all accidents by snow avalanches causing at least one fatality in...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • number-of-caught-persons
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • number-of-dead-persons
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • avalanche-accidents
  • Glide-snow avalanche activity on Dorfberg, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the processed data of the glide-snow avalanche activity and dynamics on Dorfberg (Davos, Switzerland) covering seasons 2008/09 to 2021/22. This dataset was...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

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    • snowpack-simulation
    • time-lapse-photography
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • avalanche