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290 datasets found

  • Simulated future discharge and climatological variables for medium-sized catchments in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Daily discharge and the related hydro-meteorological variables precipitation, snowmelt, and soil moisture are provided for current (1981-2017) and for future climate conditions...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • snowmelt
    • discharge
    • hydrology
    • soil-moisture
    • precipitation
  • 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
    • snow
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • avalanche
    • release
    • hazard-mapping
  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

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    Education, culture and sport

    High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high...

    Last updated: September 10, 2021

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • climate
    • free-climate-data
    • climate-change
    • precipitation
    • bioclim
    • climate-layers
    • climatology
    • temperature
  • CCN, hygroscopicity, predicted cloud droplet numbers Weissfluhjoch

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    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
    • supersaturation
    • dmt-ccn-chamber
    • hygroscopicity
    • sigma-w
    • weissfluhjoch
    • raclets
    • cloud-modeling
    • cloud-droplets
    • ccn
  • SnowMicroPen measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

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    Education, culture and sport

    SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Measurements were taken in the vicinity of the Belgium Princess Elisabeth Station...

    Last updated: June 21, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • microstructure
    • snowmicropen
    • snow-density
    • antarctica
    • snow-density-profile
  • Cloud Optimized Raster Encoding (CORE) format

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    Education, culture and sport

    DISCLAIMER: CORE is still in development. Interested parties are warmly invited to join common development, to comment, discuss, find bugs, etc.

    Acknowledgement: The CORE format...

    Last updated: November 8, 2022

    • HTML
    • SERVICE
    • geodata
    • time-series
    • video-encoding
    • sentinel-2
    • gridded-data
    • raster
    • research-data-management
    • core
  • Species distribution maps of Fagales and Pinales (GDPlants)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains 1957 distribution maps of species from Fagales and Pinales constructed based on a method integrating polygon mapping and SDMs (Lyu et al., 2022). To...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

    • ZIP
    • species-richness
    • pinales
    • species-occurrence
    • species-range-map
    • fagales
    • species-distribution-model
  • Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion

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    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
    • snow-cohesion
    • mixed-grain-transport
    • large-eddy-simulations
    • drifting-snow
    • saltation
  • 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
    • snow-energy-balance
    • forest-structure
    • snow-modelling
    • forest-snow
    • snow-distribution
  • Restoring grassland multifunctionality

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    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
    • fungi
    • mineralization
    • soil-biodiversity
    • biodiversity
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • grassland
    • restoration
    • bacteria
    • nematodes
    • plants