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41 datasets found

  • Causal effect of LUP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Does zoning contain built-up land expansion? Causal evidence from Zhangzhou City, China.

    Research objective: Built-up land zoning is an imporatant policy measure of land...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • land-use-change
    • plan-evaluation
    • psm-did
    • land-use-planning
    • annual-effect
  • Plant species list from 1775 and 2020 for Uetliberg Zürich

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The list gives the clearly identifiable plant species from Schinz (1775). Die Reise auf den Uetliberg. Verlag des Waysenhauses, Zürich). Several species given in Schinz (1775) are...

    Last updated: January 9, 2024

    • CSV
    • occurrence
    • flora-change
    • uetliberg
    • zurich
    • plant-species
  • snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian–Eulerian two-phase solver for modelling convection of water vapor in snowpacks

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam is a two-phase solver implemented to model convection of water vapor with phase change in snowpacks. This new solver is based on the standard solver of...

    Last updated: January 15, 2022

    • ZIP
    • convection-in-snow
    • numerical-simulation
    • openfoam
    • vapor-transport
    • snow-density-profile
  • Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper entitled “The role of spatial planning in land change: An assessment of urban planning and nature conservation...

    Last updated: January 6, 2022

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • SHP
    • SERVICE
    • land-use-and-cover-change
    • urban-morphology
    • planning-outcome
    • forest-persistence
    • forest-gain
    • urban-sprawl
    • basic-services
    • built-up-classification
    • topography
    • urban-compactness
    • nature-conservation
    • spatial-modelling
  • 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
    • research-data-management
    • juypter-notebooks
    • open-science
    • wsl
    • envidat
  • Historical Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The main datasets available are 4 nationwide Digital Surface Models (DSMs) and corresponding Vegetation Height Models (VHMs) with a spatial resolution of 1 m. The...

    Last updated: August 29, 2024

    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • forest
    • vhm
    • dsm
    • historical
    • nfi
    • photogrammetry
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on: (1) (Dataset 1) spatial distribution of urban beekeeping (number of hives and number of beekeeping locations) in 14 Swiss cities (Geneva, Lausanne, Biel, Neuchatel, Basel,...

    Last updated: August 12, 2024

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • honeybees
    • urban-biodiversity
    • pollination
    • urbanization
    • sustainability
    • remote-sensing
  • CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A multitude of physical and biological processes on which ecosystems and human societies depend are governed by climatic conditions. Understanding how these processes are altered...

    Last updated: September 19, 2024

    • PDF
    • GeoTIFF
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • growing-degree-days
    • soil-water-balance
    • solar-radiation
    • temperature
    • growing-season-length
  • Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat Concept

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the...

    Last updated: April 23, 2021

    • PDF
    • reproducibility
    • open-source
    • hpc
    • jupyter-notebooks
    • open-data
    • research-data-management
    • open-science
  • Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We modelled the global distribution of 730 amphibian, 1276 reptile, and 1961 mammal species globally as a function of current climate at a 0.5° spatial resolution using four...

    Last updated: November 9, 2022

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • range-maps
    • reptiles
    • climate-variablity
    • generalized-linear-models
    • generalized-additive-models
    • chelsa
    • amphibians
    • random-forests
    • species-distribution-models
    • mammals
    • iucn
    • sdm
    • niche-models
    • interannual-climate-variability
  • Land use/cover dynamics in Austin metropolitan area since 1992

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Zhao C, Weng Q, Hersperger A M. Characterizing the 3-D urban morphology transformation to understand urban-form...

    Last updated: February 7, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • urban-morphology
    • landscape
    • austin
    • land-dynamics
    • land-use
  • Nutrient sustainability in beech forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    With this study, our aim was to estimate the nutrient fluxes relevant for assessing nutrient sustainability as accurately as possible and to calculate nutrient balances for...

    Last updated: June 7, 2024

    • XLS
    • nutrient
    • soil
    • mass-balance
    • beech
    • sustainability
  • Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Overview We present GROUNDEYE, a new model of radiative transfer over mountainous terrain, which considers for the first time the forward scattering properties of snow. Embedded...

    Last updated: June 5, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • albedo
    • shortwave-radiation
    • photovoltaic
    • winter-energy-production
    • snow
  • Profile measurements of snow transport and micrometeorology at Mizuho Station in Antarctica

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data was collected at Mizuho Station (44.315°E, 70.71°S, 2230 m a.s.l.), East Antarctica, from 30 September to 22 November 2000 during the 41st Japanese Antarctic research...

    Last updated: September 12, 2024

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • meteorological-measurements
    • drifting-snow
    • blowing-snow
    • antarctica
    • atmospheric-turbulence
  • A dataset of 40000 trees with section-wise measured stem diameter and length and volume of branches from across Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data presented here were prepared for publication in form of a data paper. The dataset presents an update of the information in Didion M, Herold A, Vulovic Z, Nitzsche J,...

    Last updated: April 25, 2024

    • TXT
    • PDF
    • allometry
    • stemwood
    • section-wise-diameter
    • branchwood
    • growing-stock
    • tree-volume
  • 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

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • icecube
    • microct
    • intercomparison
    • specific-surface-area
    • snow
  • Figures perspective urban beekeeping

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data and code from the perspective paper "When honeybees comes to town" The .r file provides the code to generate the figures. In addition, this repository contains the data for...

    Last updated: August 12, 2024

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • wildbees
    • urban-beekeeping
    • diversity-distributions
    • hymenoptera
    • urban-ecology
    • insects
  • Distributed Acoustic Sensing Brienz

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), radar detection data used for training and result analysis in the GRL paper titled `Automatic Monitoring of Rock-Slope...

    Last updated: September 16, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • seismic
    • machine-learning
    • early-warning
    • rockfall
    • landslide
    • natural-hazard
  • Legacy effects of premature defoliation in response to an extreme drought event modulate phytochemical profiles with subtle consequences for leaf herbivory in European beech

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    What are the research data files about: Raw data on various beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf traits. Beech leaf chemistry (primary and specialized metabolites), leaf damage...

    Last updated: March 7, 2024

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • drought-legacy
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • herbivory
    • phytochemistry
  • Optimizing renewable energy siting in the Swiss landscape

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This study examines the siting scenarios for renewable energy infrastructure (REI) in Switzerland, incorporating the external costs of ecosystem services and, innovatively, social...

    Last updated: February 26, 2024

    • ZIP
    • landscape
    • social-acceptance
    • spatial-planning
    • wind-power
    • ecosystem-services
    • optimization
    • energy
    • marxan
    • photovoltaic