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92 datasets found

  • 3D_Snow_Models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types are...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • snow
    • 3d-model
    • 3d-print
    • snow-cast
    • weak-layer
    • new-snow
    • rounded-snow
    • depth-hoar
  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

    Last updated: February 16, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • natural-hazards
    • field-tests
    • field-test
    • experiment
    • trajectory
    • field-data
    • rockfall
    • mass-movements
    • experiments
  • DISCHMEX - High-resolution WRF simulations in complex alpine terrain and station measurements

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data presented here corresponds to the publication "Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO-WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • precipitation-variability
    • snow-precipitation
    • orographic-precipitation
    • complex-terrain
    • cosmo-wrf
  • Disdrometer Data Laret

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was used to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The instrument can classify eight different...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • visibility
    • raclets
    • disdrometer
    • hydrometeors
    • precipitation
  • Sensitivity of modeled snow instability

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We investigated the sensitivity of modeled snow instability to meteorological input data using SNOWPACK. We therefore used input data from the automatic weather station at the...

    Last updated: October 16, 2020

    • ZIP
    • snowpack
    • numerical-avalanche-forecasting
    • snow-instability
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • global-sensitivity-analysis
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological parameter...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • PDF
    • meteorological-data
    • dischmex
    • meteo-station
    • dischma
    • meteorological-measurements
  • Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Polygons of wet snow avalanches in the Davos area, as documented by the Swiss avalanche warning service. The georeferenced outlines of the avalanches contain both the release as...

    Last updated: December 15, 2021

    • ZIP
    • shapefile
    • snow
    • observations
    • alps
    • avalanches
  • Root-traits

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Fine-root traits of Scots pine in response to enhanced soil water availability deriving from long-term irrigation in the Pfynwald

    Data_Fig.1.xlsx Fine-root biomass of the topsoil...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

    • ZIP
    • belowground-biomass
    • fine-root-traits
    • soil-coring
    • ingrowth-cores
    • drought
  • Supporting information for case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of fungi

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Resources associated with the manuscript A case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of fungi (Schlegel et al. 2023, submitted). Airborne environmental...

    Last updated: October 3, 2023

    • ZIP
    • metabarcoding
    • spore-dispersal
    • air-sampling
    • edna
    • monitoring
  • Radiosondes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Radiosondes (Windsond, Sparv Embedded AB) were started in Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) to report height profiles of pressure, relative humidity and temperature at...

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • ZIP
    • wind
    • radiosonde
    • temperature
    • pressure
    • wind-direction
    • raclets
    • relative-humidity
    • holoballoon
  • 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

    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • PNG
    • forest
    • openstreetmap
    • geoprocessing
    • qgis
    • accessible-forest
    • seilaplan
  • Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • snow
    • european-alps
    • avalanche-forecast
    • warning-regions
    • danger-level
  • Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant multifaceted diversity

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • grain-size
    • ecological-indicator-values
    • soil
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • climate
    • functional-diversity
  • Long-term afforestation experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • ZIP
    • mountain-forest
    • afforestation
    • long-term-experiment
    • stillberg
    • treeline
  • Automatic detection of avalanches

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduced...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • monitoring
    • snow
    • hidden-markov-model
    • seismic
    • avalanche-activity
  • A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This python code uses the Finite Element library FEniCS (via docker) to solve the one dimensional partial differential equations for heat and mass transfer in snow. The results are...

    Last updated: February 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • python
    • numerical-model
    • pattern-formation
    • vapor-transport
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    These data were used to drive and evaluate Jules Investigation Model (JIM) snow simulations. The data provided are the forcing data used for the "deterministic" runs as described...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-depth
    • snow
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow-simulation
    • jim
  • 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
    • tls
    • preferential-deposition
    • lidar
    • alpine3d
    • lee-side-flow-field
  • FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas...

    Last updated: September 8, 2023

    • PDF
    • HTML
    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • soil-temperature
    • carbon-dioxide
    • vegetation
    • experiment
    • climate-change
    • stillberg
  • 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-planning
    • plan-evaluation
    • annual-effect
    • psm-did
    • land-use-change