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84 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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