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5 datasets found

  • 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
    • open-data
    • open-science
    • reproducibility
    • open-source
    • jupyter-notebooks
    • hpc
    • research-data-management
  • 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
  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • GeoTIFF
    • free-climate-data
    • climatology
    • temperature
    • climate-layers
    • bioclim
    • climate-change
    • climate
    • precipitation
  • 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 21, 2022

    • PDF
    • GeoTIFF
    • relative-humidity
    • growing-degree-days
    • solar-radiation
    • soil-water-balance
    • precipitation
    • growing-season-length
    • temperature
  • 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
    • built-up-classification
    • urban-compactness
    • basic-services
    • urban-morphology
    • planning-outcome
    • forest-persistence
    • spatial-modelling
    • nature-conservation
    • forest-gain
    • topography
    • urban-sprawl
    • land-use-and-cover-change