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92 datasets found

  • Synchrony between spongy moth hatching and leaf phenology of temperate trees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The files correspond to the data and R-script used for the analyses of the following paper "Feasting on the ordinary or starving for the exceptional: phenological synchrony between...

    Last updated: July 11, 2023

    • ZIP
    • chilling
    • hatch
    • budburst
    • spongy-month
    • phenology
  • gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions and a user-friendly GBIF wrapper

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Although species range may be obtained using expert maps or modeling methods, expert data is often species-limited and statistical models need more technical expertise as well as...

    Last updated: August 8, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • species-observations
    • accepted-name
    • hard-limit
    • gbif
    • occurrence-records
    • filtering
    • synonyms
    • ecoregions
    • landsca
    • species-distribution
    • taxonomy
    • flags
    • large-scale
    • conservation
    • range-maps
    • r-package
  • Disdrometer Data Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains information on precipitation amount and type for Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) from February 8 to March 19 2019. It includes: characteristics...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • precipitation
    • disdrometer
    • davos
    • raclets
    • fall-velocity
  • snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian–Eulerian two-phase solver for modelling convection of water vapor in snowpacks

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam is a two-phase solver implemented to model convection of water vapor with phase change in snowpacks. This new solver is based on the standard solver of...

    Last updated: January 15, 2022

    • ZIP
    • numerical-simulation
    • openfoam
    • vapor-transport
    • snow-density-profile
    • convection-in-snow
  • Digitizing historical plague

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For...

    Last updated: October 1, 2020

    • ZIP
    • bubonic-plague
    • plague-mapping
    • historical-plague
    • black-death
    • plague-outbreaks
    • yersinia-pestis
    • plague-inventory
    • palaeo-epidemiology
  • Hydro-meteorological simulations for the period 1981-2018 for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset provides simulated 1) precipitation, 2) discharge, 3) soil moisture, and 4) low-flow simulations for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland for the period...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • drought-2018
    • precipitation
    • soil-moisture
    • hydrological-simulations
    • discharge
    • prevah
    • low-flow
  • TRAMM project Ruedlingen experimental landslide dataset, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A landslide testsite dataset related to pore water pressure perturbations on the stability of unsaturated silty sand slopes leading to the initiation and propagation of the shear...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • pressure-perturbations
    • pore-water
    • landslides
    • tramm
    • cces
    • landslide-testsite
  • Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height...

    Last updated: March 25, 2020

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • stand-inventory-data
    • forest-dynamics
    • permanent-forest-plot-data
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest-structure
    • carpathian-biosphere-reserve
    • dem
    • forest
    • long-term-data-sets
    • primeval-beech-forest
  • Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We modelled the global distribution of 730 amphibian, 1276 reptile, and 1961 mammal species globally as a function of current climate at a 0.5° spatial resolution using four...

    Last updated: November 9, 2022

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • niche-models
    • reptiles
    • generalized-linear-models
    • random-forests
    • sdm
    • amphibians
    • species-distribution-models
    • chelsa
    • generalized-additive-models
    • range-maps
    • climate-variablity
    • iucn
    • mammals
    • interannual-climate-variability
  • Reproducibility Dataset for CRYOWRF v1.0

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data required for reproducibility of the results to be published in the associated manuscript.

    Apart from reproducibility, the attached datasets also...

    Last updated: July 16, 2021

    • ZIP
    • blowing-snow
    • antarctica
    • alps
    • mesoscale-modelling
    • snow-atmosphere-interaction
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at 4...

    Last updated: December 22, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • gps
    • snow
    • liquid-water-content
    • lwc
    • gnss
    • swe
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • DISCHMEX - High-resolution daily snow ablation rates in an Alpine environment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We recorded snow ablation maps with a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS, Riegl-VZ6000) at the Gletschboden area. The TLS position is located approximately 30 vertical meters above the...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • patchy-snow-covers
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • riegl-vz6000
    • tls
    • snow-ablation-rates
  • History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1850

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Naturally, large parts of the Swiss Plateau are characterised by wetlands and meandering rivers. That this is no longer the case today is the result of centuries of efforts to...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • ecology
    • wetlands
    • environmental---history
    • environmental--policy
    • historical-carthography
    • switzerland
  • Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories in the Antarctic

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Summary

    This data set contains Python programming code and modeled data discussed in a related research article. We developed a simple isotope model to study the drivers of the...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • evaporation
    • backward-trajectories
    • antarctica
    • snow-sublimation
    • isotopic-distillation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • lagrangian-analysis
  • Causal effect of MFOZ

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Closer to causality: How effective is spatial planning in governing built-up land expansion in Fujian Province, China?

    Research objective: The Major Function Oriented Zone...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • causality
    • built-up-land-change
    • propensity-score-matching
    • the-major-function-oriented-zone
    • fujian-province
    • selection-bias
  • Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial...

    Last updated: December 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • urban-land-use
    • land-dynamics
    • driving-factors
    • austin
    • planning
  • Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Ecologically meaningful predictors are often neglected in plant distribution studies, resulting in incomplete niche quantification and low predictive power of species distribution...

    Last updated: June 11, 2020

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • plants
    • ecological-indicator-values
    • ecological-maps
    • switzerland
    • soil-mapping
    • landolt
    • soil-ph
    • soil-moisture
  • High resolution sea ice surface topography from the SIPEX-2 expedition, East Antarctica, 2012

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises of a post-processed set of terrestrial laser scans (TLS’s) of Antarctic sea ice obtained during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment-2 (SIPEX-2,...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • tls
    • sea-ice
    • polar
    • sea-ice-elevation
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created during...

    Last updated: February 19, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • microct
    • snow
    • icecube
    • intercomparison
    • specific-surface-area
  • Weather Station Klosters

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A weather station (Lufft WS600) measured meteorological parameters at Klosters (LON: 9.880413, LAT: 46.869019). Detailed information on the specifications can be found...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • raclets
    • temperature
    • weather
    • precipitation
    • klosters
    • wind