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92 datasets found

  • Reproducibility dataset for CRYOWRF validation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains data and scripts for "CRYOWRF - a validation and the effect of blowing snow on the Antarctic SMB" (Gerber et al., submitted).

    • Simulation_setup: Namelists...

    Last updated: June 2, 2023

    • ZIP
    • cryowrf
    • reproducibility
    • surface-mass-balance
    • antarctica
    • blowing-snow
  • ALS-based snow depth and canopy height maps from flights in 2017 (Grisons, CH and Grand Mesa, CO)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes snow depth, canopy height and terrain elevation maps of forest stands in the Grisons (CH) and at Grand Mesa (CO,USA) derived from airborne lidar. Data were...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • airborne-laser-scanning
    • forest-structure
    • snow-distribution
    • snow-depth
    • canopy-height
  • Land use projections and services for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data and scripts of publication:

    Madleina Gerecke, Oskar Hagen, Janine Bolliger, Anna M. Hersperger, Felix Kienast, Bronwyn Price, Loïc Pellissier (2019) Assessing potential...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • modeling
    • landscape-services
    • switzerland
    • statistical-model
    • land-use
    • land-use-change
    • urbanization
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland. Typical snow profile measurements and observations are included (temperature, density, grain size,...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • weisfluhjoch
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-density
  • DISCHMEX - Impact of extreme land-surface heterogeneity on micrometeorology over spring snow-cover

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains eddy-covariance measurements in the ablation period of 2014-2016. Measurements were taken from two turbulence towers over a long-lasting snow patch, which are...

    Last updated: September 13, 2023

    • ZIP
    • PNG
    • XLS
    • snow-patch
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • patchy-snow-covers
    • dischmex
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
  • Electrodermal Activity (EDA) of Bi-cultural Visitors In Virtual Park Settings

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data on EDA measurements of visitors with different cultural backgrounds in virtual urban park settings. The parks are a Persian garden (Shiraz, Iran) and...

    Last updated: December 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • urban-ecology
    • electrodermal-activity
    • landscape
    • sense-of-place
    • place-attachment
  • Escarpment evolution drives the diversification of the Madagascar flora

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Although much of the endemic biodiversity of Madagascar can be attributed to its isolation as an island in the Indian Ocean, the high rates of speciation throughout its geologic...

    Last updated: September 10, 2023

    • ZIP
    • madagascar
    • endemism
    • geology
    • landscape-evolution
    • flora
  • Disdrometer Data Gotschnagrat

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was deployed at Gotschnagrat (LON: 9.849, LAT: 46.859) to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • hydrometeors
    • disdrometer
    • raclets
    • visibility
    • precipitation
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Here the updated versions of debrisInterMixing are provided for download. The first OpenFoam-compatible Version 2.3.x are available as supplement to v. Boetticher, A., Turowski, J....

    Last updated: March 24, 2020

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • murgang
    • interfoam
    • barrier-impact-simulation
    • dberisintermixing
    • natural-hazard
    • shallow-landslide
    • finite-volumes
    • hangmuren
    • debris-flow
  • Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the SnowMicroPen (SMP) data from 38 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winters 2015/16...

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • wind-packing
    • wind-crust
    • snow
    • snowmicropen
    • smp
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Stable water isotopes (δ18O) obtained from snow and ice samples of polar regions are used to reconstruct past climate variability, but heat and mass transport processes can affect...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • advection
    • stable-water-isotope
    • snow
    • 18o
    • metamorphism
  • Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence-only species distribution models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Aim: While species distribution models (SDMs) are standard tools to predict species distributions, they can suffer from observation and sampling biases, particularly presence-only...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • ZIP
    • target-group
    • cluster
    • survey-effort
    • point-process-model
    • covariate-correction
    • environmental-stratification
    • independent-dataset
    • random-stratified-sampling
    • plant-species
    • background-data
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17....

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • wind-packing
    • kinect
    • wind-tunnel
    • snow
    • wind-crust
  • Wind tunnel measurement data of drifting snow and turbulent wind fluctuations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data correspond to the experiments presented and discussed in a paper regarding the interaction between turbulent wind fluctuations and snow saltation mass-fluxes (Paterna,...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • saltation
    • vertical-wind-motion
    • snow-depth
    • boundary-layer-winds
    • snow-cover
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • snow-micro-mechanics
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-failure
    • snow
    • discrete-element-modelling
  • Terrestrial laser scans on Hammarryggen Ice Rise, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Surface topography maps (spatial extent: 400 m x 400 m) obtained at approximately 300 m from the top of the Hammarryggen Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, using a...

    Last updated: September 20, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • antarctica
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • gridded-data
  • G-TREE: Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Background information Climate change-induced range expansion of treeline populations depends on their successful recruitment, which requires dispersal of viable seeds followed by...

    Last updated: September 10, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • g-tree
    • seedling-recruitment
    • picea-abies
    • stillberg
    • climate-change
    • swiss-alps
    • forest
    • treeline
    • larix-decidua
  • Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs provides estimates of current and future water supply, water demand, and storage volumes for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland. Water...

    Last updated: December 15, 2020

    • ZIP
    • water-supply
    • water-demand
    • climate-change
    • water-scarcity
    • reservoirs
  • Backward Trajectories

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Backward trajectories were calculated from two positions: Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.85361, LAT: 46.83551) and Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.80646 LAT: 46.83304) for the time period February 2...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • atmospheric-dynamics
    • alps
    • complex-topopgraphy
    • cosmo
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • backward-trajectories
    • raclets
  • How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We used five different atmospheric turbulence datasets from four test sites, with these sites showing differences in their topographical characteristics. We chose one typical...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • stable-boundary-layer
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • atmosphere
    • snow