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92 datasets found

  • Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Preferential deposition of snow and dust over complex terrain is responsible for a wide range of environmental processes, and accounts for a significant source of uncertainty in...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

    • ZIP
    • turbulence
    • atmosphere
    • particles
    • snow
    • deposition
    • dust
    • hill
  • Dataset for OGRS 2018 publication

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the road and plot data used for the geospatial analysis example showcased in "Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal", a...

    Last updated: October 28, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • roads
    • density
    • gis
    • jupyter
    • geospatial
    • buffer
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

    Last updated: March 24, 2022

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • catchment-data
    • rain-on-snow
    • snow-hydrology
    • snowpack
    • meteorological-data
  • Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This is a technical documentation of the procedure to run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over complex alpine terrain using Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling...

    Last updated: August 29, 2022

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • complex-terrain
    • high-resolution
    • numerical-simulation
    • cosmo-wrf
    • meteoswiss
  • Individual tree TLS point clouds for tree volume estimation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset This dataset is based on terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data acquired during winter 2020/2021 in leaf-off conditions, with a Leica BLK 360 instrument following a...

    Last updated: August 30, 2023

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • single-tree
    • tree-volume
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • forest-inventory
    • biomass
    • lidar
  • Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand...

    Last updated: September 26, 2023

    • ZIP
    • biodiversity
    • forest
    • ecology
    • microclimate
    • statistical-interpolation
    • radiation-transfer
    • climate-change
  • Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • esm-snowmip
    • snow-models
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-depth
    • snow
  • UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in the...

    Last updated: December 14, 2020

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • griesgletscher
    • dem
    • findelengletscher
    • alps
    • glacier
    • sankt-annafirn
    • gletscher
    • orthophoto
    • dsm
    • drone
    • orthoimage
    • uav
  • Simulated future discharge and climatological variables for medium-sized catchments in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Daily discharge and the related hydro-meteorological variables precipitation, snowmelt, and soil moisture are provided for current (1981-2017) and for future climate conditions...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • snowmelt
    • discharge
    • hydrology
    • soil-moisture
    • precipitation
  • Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the output and reference data published in the paper "Automated snow avalanche release area delineation - validation of existing algorithms and proposition of...

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • ZIP
    • ramms
    • snow
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • avalanche
    • release
    • hazard-mapping
  • Species distribution maps of Fagales and Pinales (GDPlants)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains 1957 distribution maps of species from Fagales and Pinales constructed based on a method integrating polygon mapping and SDMs (Lyu et al., 2022). To...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

    • ZIP
    • species-richness
    • pinales
    • species-occurrence
    • species-range-map
    • fagales
    • species-distribution-model
  • Snow depth, canopy structure and meterorological datasets from the Davos area, Switzerland, Winters 2012/13-2014/15, used for high-resolution forest snow modelling

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all snow, canopy and meteorological data presented and used in the publication: Mazzotti, G., Essery, R., Moeser, D. & Jonas T. (2020) 'Resolving spatial...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • snow-energy-balance
    • forest-structure
    • snow-modelling
    • forest-snow
    • snow-distribution