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5 datasets found

  • Above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Despite the common role of above- and below-ground herbivore communities in mediating ecosystem functioning, our understanding of the variation of species communities along natural...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • TXT
    • herbivores-communities
    • plant-herbivore-interactions
    • community-indices
    • environmental-gradients
    • elevation
    • alps
    • functional-traits
  • 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
    • avalanches
    • shapefile
    • alps
    • snow
    • observations
  • 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
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • backward-trajectories
    • raclets
    • complex-topopgraphy
    • alps
    • atmospheric-dynamics
    • cosmo
  • 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
    • dem
    • drone
    • orthoimage
    • alps
    • griesgletscher
    • glacier
    • gletscher
    • findelengletscher
    • dsm
    • sankt-annafirn
    • orthophoto
    • uav
  • 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
    • alps
    • antarctica
    • mesoscale-modelling
    • snow-atmosphere-interaction
    • blowing-snow