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261 datasets found

  • Energy Cooperatives in Switzerland: Survey Results // Energiegenossenschaften in der Schweiz: Befragungsergebnisse

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Topic of Survey The data at hand on energy cooperatives in Switzerland were collected in 2016 as part of the project "Collective financing of renewable energy projects in...

    Last updated: March 1, 2023

    • PDF
    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • switzerland
    • community-energy
    • cooperatives
    • renewable-energy
    • energy-cooperatives
  • 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
  • Snow Drift Station - Flowcapt

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The FlowCapt is an ultra-robust instrument measuring solid particle acoustic mass - flux intensities (g m‾ ² s‾ ¹) and wind speeds (m s‾ ¹). It was...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • snowdrift
    • wind-speed
    • snow-blowing
    • raclets
    • acoustic-mass-flux
    • flowcapt
  • 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
  • Soil sealing Barcelona and Milan different territorial levels

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset description
    This dataset is a recalculation of the Copernicus 2015 high resolution layer (HRL) of imperviousness density data (IMD) at different spatial/territorial...

    Last updated: May 11, 2022

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    • urban-atlas
    • copernicus
    • barcelona
    • milan
    • imperviousness
    • soil-sealing
  • Replication files for "Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics"

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Introduction

    The ZIP file contains all data and code to replicate the analyses reported in the following paper.

    Reber, U., Fischer, M., Ingold, K., Kienast, F., Hersperger, A....

    Last updated: April 5, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • policy-analysis
    • environmental--policy
    • policy-documents
    • switzerland
    • text-corpus
    • biodiversity
    • bgb
  • 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
  • European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists...

    Last updated: June 19, 2021

    • HTML
    • XLS
    • PDF
    • snow-depth
    • snow-measurement-methods
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • harmonisation-of-snow-measurements
    • water-equivalent-of-the-snow-cover
    • spatial-distribution-of-snow-observations-in-europe
    • cost-action-es1404-harmosnow
  • Snow depth mapping by airplane photogrammetry (2017 - ongoing)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 0.5 m derived from images of the survey camera Vexcel Ultracam mounted on a piloted airplane. Image...

    Last updated: August 23, 2023

    • GeoTIFF
    • photogrammetry
    • snow-depth-distribution
    • snow-hydrology
    • avalanches
    • davos
    • dischma
  • UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers

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    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
  • Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

    • XLS
    • snowpack-model
    • avalanche-size
    • avalanche
    • machine-learning
    • natural-avalanches
  • Impulse response functions for nonlinear nonstationary and heterogeneous systems

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The R script IRFnnhs.R, which efficiently estimates impulse response functions for environmental systems that are nonlinear, nonstationary, or heterogeneous, based on their input...

    Last updated: April 28, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • arma-noise
    • nonlinear-deconvolution
    • de-mixing
    • irf
    • time-series-analysis
    • irfnnhsr
    • system-identification
    • deconvolution
    • transfer-function
    • impulse-response-function
    • greens-function
  • 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
  • CCN, hygroscopicity, predicted cloud droplet numbers Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) data: A Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) single-column continuous-flow streamwise thermal gradient chamber (CFSTGC; Roberts and Nenes, 2005)...

    Last updated: December 17, 2020

    • CSV
    • supersaturation
    • dmt-ccn-chamber
    • hygroscopicity
    • sigma-w
    • weissfluhjoch
    • raclets
    • cloud-modeling
    • cloud-droplets
    • ccn
  • SnowMicroPen measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Measurements were taken in the vicinity of the Belgium Princess Elisabeth Station...

    Last updated: June 21, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • microstructure
    • snowmicropen
    • snow-density
    • antarctica
    • snow-density-profile
  • 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
  • Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the parallel application and the main results supporting the research article "Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion"...

    Last updated: December 8, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • snow-cohesion
    • mixed-grain-transport
    • large-eddy-simulations
    • drifting-snow
    • saltation
  • 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