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64 datasets found

  • Novaggio, 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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    • precipitation
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    • meteorology
    • par
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

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

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

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    • pollination
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urbanization
    • remote-sensing
    • sustainability
    • honeybees
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

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    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

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    • ecology
    • dispersal
    • reef-fish
    • traits
    • biodiversity
  • Aerosol Data Davos Wolfgang

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    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

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    • raclets
    • ice-nucleation
    • particles
    • drincz
    • inp
    • aerosol
  • Stability tests, avalanche observations, Switzerland, Norway

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    Observational data used to quantitatively describe the key elements describing avalanche danger: snowpack stability, the frequency distribution of snowpack stability, and avalanche...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

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    • norway
    • extended-column-test
    • avalanche-observations
    • avalanche-danger
    • switzerland
    • rutschblock-test
  • Weather Station Davos Wolfgang

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    The dataset contains weather parameters measured at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577).

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

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    • relative-humidity
    • pressure
    • temperature
    • weather
    • raclets
  • Celerina, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 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: September 28, 2020

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    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
    • temperature
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • wind-speed
    • meteorology
    • climate-change
    • par
  • Soil sealing Barcelona and Milan different territorial levels

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    This dataset is a recalculation of the Copernicus 2015 high resolution layer (HRL) of imperviousness density data (IMD) at different spatial/territorial...

    Last updated: May 11, 2022

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    • milan
    • soil-sealing
    • copernicus
    • urban-atlas
    • imperviousness
    • barcelona
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland since 1937

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    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • avalanche-fatalities
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
  • Aerosol Data Weissfluhjoch

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    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

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    • raclets
    • ice-nucleation
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    • inp
    • linda
    • aerosol
  • Visp, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 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 3, 2019

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    • wind-speed
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteo
    • meteorology
    • climate-change
    • par
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • temperature
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland since 1936-1937

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    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • avalanche-accidents
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
  • GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

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    This data set includes GPS-derived snow water equivalent (SWE), snow depth (HS) and liquid water content (LWC) data for three entire snow-covered seasons (2015-2016, 2016-2017,...

    Last updated: November 29, 2019

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    • snow
    • gps
    • snow-cover
    • liquid-water-content
    • snow-depth
  • Chironico, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 2000 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 3, 2019

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    • temperature
    • wind-speed
    • meteorology
    • par
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
  • Data set of: Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to measure, explain, and predict: some practical recommendations for determining plant water sources

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    The following two tables contain information about the data sources of the values reported in Table 1 and 2 in the paper “Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to...

    Last updated: December 22, 2022

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    • endmember-mixing-models
    • root-zone
    • ecohydrology
    • plant-water-uptake
    • uncertainties
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • review
  • Alpthal, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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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: September 28, 2020

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    • precipitation
    • par
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
    • long-term
  • CCN, hygroscopicity, predicted cloud droplet numbers Weissfluhjoch

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    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

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    • weissfluhjoch
    • dmt-ccn-chamber
    • sigma-w
    • raclets
    • ccn
    • hygroscopicity
    • cloud-droplets
    • cloud-modeling
    • supersaturation
  • LWF-Tea bag sites

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    Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for the transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in the decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as...

    Last updated: August 20, 2021

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    • litter
    • forest
    • decomposition
    • green-tea
    • carbon
    • modeling
    • roiboos
    • tea-bag
    • verification
  • Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

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    This dataset contains the data used in the publication by Techel et al., 2018 Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts - a case study in the European Alps (Nat Haz...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • warning-regions
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow
    • danger-level
    • european-alps
  • Neunkirch, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 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 3, 2019

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    • temperature
    • par
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
    • wind-speed
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo