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290 datasets found

  • RADAR Wind profiler Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The RADAR wind profiler from Meteoswiss was installed at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) and measured from 2171 m above sea level to 11079 m, with a temporal...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • raclets
    • wind-direction
    • radar
    • wolfgangpass
    • wind-speed
  • Ecological properties of urban ecosystems. Biodiversity dataset of Zurich

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    Education, culture and sport

    Richness, site occurrence and abundance data of bees, beetles, birds, hoverflies, net-wingeds, true bugs, snails, spiders, milipides, wasps collected in the city of Zurich using...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • TXT
    • sdms
    • arthropods
    • spiders
    • urban-ecology
    • species-richness-models
    • insects
    • diversity
    • species-abundance-distributions
    • birds
    • snails
    • urbanization
  • Bibliography of the long-term treeline research site Stillberg, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    The Stillberg ecological treeline research site in the Swiss Alps was established in 1975, with the aim to develop ecologically, technically, and...

    Last updated: September 8, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • mountain-ecology
    • treeline-ecosystems
    • literature-review
    • long-term-experiment
    • stillberg
  • Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant multifaceted diversity

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises a large array of ecological data for the European Alps:

    (1) Current soil and climate predictors at various resolutions. (2) GBIF observations of the...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • ZIP
    • ecological-indicator-values
    • soil
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • climate
    • functional-diversity
    • grain-size
    • taxonomic-diversity
  • Present and future multifaceted plant diversity, uniqueness and conservation in the European Alps

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains extensive data for the European Alps:

    • Observations of ~3,500 plant species
    • Climate (1-km), soil (100-m) and land cover predictors (1km); current...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • GeoTIFF
    • species-distribution-models
    • beta-diversity
    • land-use-change
    • european-alps
    • migclim
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • zonation
    • global-change
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • plants
    • functional-diversity
    • conservation
  • DISCHMEX - High-resolution daily snow ablation rates in an Alpine environment

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    Education, culture and sport

    We recorded snow ablation maps with a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS, Riegl-VZ6000) at the Gletschboden area. The TLS position is located approximately 30 vertical meters above the...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • tls
    • riegl-vz6000
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • snow-ablation-rates
    • patchy-snow-covers
  • GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Snowprofile from 11 observer sites in Switzerland compiled for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Height of snow (cm) and snow water equivalent (mm) are recorded every 2...

    Last updated: May 25, 2022

    • CSV
    • TXT
    • snow
    • snow-height
    • gcos
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-profile
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Grüenbödeli

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    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted various drone flights at Grüenbödeli near Davos with the Sony RX1R II mounted on a Wingtra drone during 2020/21/22. The data was processed with the Agisoft Metashape...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • wingtra
    • dsm
    • orthophoto
    • drone-data
    • uav
    • photogrammetry
    • snow-depth-mapping
  • Flowering Plants (Angiospermae) in Urban Green Areas in five European Cities

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data of a survey of flowering plants in 80 sites in five European cities and urban agglomerations (Antwerp, Belgium; greater Paris, France; Poznan, Poland; Tartu, Estonia; and...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • floral-resources
    • tartu
    • floral-inventories
    • zurich
    • plants
    • antwerp
    • urban
    • paris
    • angiospermae
    • poznan
  • Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP

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    Education, culture and sport

    This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • snow-models
    • snow-depth
    • snow
    • weissfluhjoch
    • esm-snowmip
  • Replication files for "Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics"

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    Education, culture and sport

    Introduction

    The ZIP file contains all data and code to replicate the analyses reported in the following paper.

    Reber, U., Fischer, M., Ingold, K., Kienast, F., Hersperger, A....

    Last updated: April 5, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • policy-documents
    • biodiversity
    • bgb
    • switzerland
    • environmental--policy
    • text-corpus
    • policy-analysis
  • Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the output and reference data published in the paper "Automated snow avalanche release area delineation - validation of existing algorithms and proposition of...

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • ZIP
    • ramms
    • hazard-mapping
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • avalanche
    • snow
    • release
  • Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • meteodat-gmbh
    • snow
    • wagital
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for Forest Accessibility and Wood Harvesting at FOSS4G2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Europe...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

    • ZIP
    • PNG
    • SERVICE
    • TIFF
    • accessible-forest
    • seilaplan
    • forest
    • geoprocessing
    • qgis
    • openstreetmap
  • RIT1: Processed permafrost borehole data (2690 m asl), Ritigraben, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    ENVIDAT NOTE: Data currently unvailable and measures are being taken to recover and restore the data files.

    Processed ground temperature measurements at the Ritigraben...

    Last updated: March 11, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • borehole
    • permafrost
    • ritigraben
    • ground-temperature
    • permos
  • Larval food composition of four wild bee species in five European cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Urbanization poses threats and opportunities for the biodiversity of wild bees. A main gap relates to the food preferences of wild bees in urban ecosystems, which usually harbour...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

    • CSV
    • cavity-nesting-bees
    • poznan
    • urban-ecology
    • hylaeus-communis
    • chelostoma-florisomne
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • paris
    • tartu
    • osmia-bicornis
    • zurich
    • plant-pollinator-interactions
    • trap-nest
    • osmia-cornuta
    • antwerp
  • EnviDat Supports Open Science

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The article "EnviDat Supports Open Science" originally appeared in WSLintern No. 3 (2020), page 14-15 and it is republished here with permission from the WSLintern editorial team....

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

    • PDF
    • open-science
    • wsl
    • research-data-management
    • juypter-notebooks
    • envidat
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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-density
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • weisfluhjoch
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • Ecosystem coupling and multifunctionality - exclosure experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Risch AC, Ochoa-Hueso R, van der Putten WH, Bump JK, Busse MD, Frey B,...

    Last updated: September 8, 2020

    • XLS
    • grazing
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • grassland
    • invertebrates
    • vertebrates
    • ecosystem-functions
    • exclusion
    • swiss-national-park
    • ecosystem-coupling
    • subalpine
  • DISCHMEX - Observations and simulations of the close-ridge small-scale atmospheric flow field and snow accumulation at Sattelhorn, Dischma valley, Davos, Switzerland.

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data presented here corresponds to the publication "A Close-Ridge Small-Scale Atmospheric Flow Field and its Influence on Snow Accumulation" (Gerber et al., 2017), which...

    Last updated: November 15, 2019

    • ZIP
    • alpine3d
    • lee-side-flow-field
    • tls
    • preferential-deposition
    • lidar