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84 datasets found

  • Snow Drift Station - Micro Rain Radar

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The instrument (MRR, Metek) was mounted at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) at a height of 1 m above snow surface (at the beginning of the campaign) with an orientation of 22°...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • rain
    • mountain
    • radar
    • raclets
    • snow
    • precipitation
  • Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for Forest Accessibility and Wood Harvesting at FOSS4G2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Europe...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

    • TIFF
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • PNG
    • seilaplan
    • openstreetmap
    • qgis
    • forest
    • accessible-forest
    • geoprocessing
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • dispersal
    • ecology
    • traits
    • biodiversity
    • reef-fish
  • Long-term afforestation experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    The Stillberg ecological treeline research site in the Swiss Alps was established in 1975, with the aim to develop ecologically, technically, and...

    Last updated: September 8, 2023

    • ZIP
    • mountain-forest
    • treeline
    • long-term-experiment
    • afforestation
    • stillberg
  • Radiosondes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Radiosondes (Windsond, Sparv Embedded AB) were started in Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) to report height profiles of pressure, relative humidity and temperature at...

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • ZIP
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
    • wind
    • raclets
    • holoballoon
    • pressure
    • wind-direction
    • radiosonde
  • 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
  • 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
    • avalanche
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • hazard-mapping
    • release
    • snow
    • ramms
  • Root-traits

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Fine-root traits of Scots pine in response to enhanced soil water availability deriving from long-term irrigation in the Pfynwald

    Data_Fig.1.xlsx Fine-root biomass of the topsoil...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

    • ZIP
    • soil-coring
    • belowground-biomass
    • ingrowth-cores
    • drought
    • fine-root-traits
  • 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
    • landsca
    • taxonomy
    • accepted-name
    • gbif
    • conservation
    • range-maps
    • flags
    • hard-limit
    • occurrence-records
    • species-distribution
    • filtering
    • synonyms
    • r-package
    • large-scale
    • species-observations
    • ecoregions
  • Reproducibility dataset for CRYOWRF validation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains data and scripts for "CRYOWRF - a validation and the effect of blowing snow on the Antarctic SMB" (Gerber et al., submitted).

    • Simulation_setup: Namelists...

    Last updated: June 2, 2023

    • ZIP
    • reproducibility
    • antarctica
    • cryowrf
    • blowing-snow
    • surface-mass-balance
  • 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
  • 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

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • experiments
    • experiment
    • field-tests
    • trajectory
    • field-data
    • mass-movements
    • rockfall
    • field-test
    • natural-hazards
  • Wind tunnel measurement data of drifting snow and turbulent wind fluctuations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data correspond to the experiments presented and discussed in a paper regarding the interaction between turbulent wind fluctuations and snow saltation mass-fluxes (Paterna,...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • vertical-wind-motion
    • saltation
    • boundary-layer-winds
    • snow-depth
    • snow-cover
  • Wind LIDAR Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Scanning wind Lidar from Meteoswiss was installed at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) and measured from 200 m above ground to 8100 m. The time resolution is up to 5...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • lidar
    • wind
    • profiles
    • raclets
    • wolfgangpass
  • Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Stable water isotopes (δ18O) obtained from snow and ice samples of polar regions are used to reconstruct past climate variability, but heat and mass transport processes can affect...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • advection
    • snow
    • metamorphism
    • stable-water-isotope
    • 18o
  • Rockfall gallery testing Parde 2016

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Five full-scale field tests were conducted with concrete blocks weighting between 800 and 3200 kg being dropped onto the roof of a gallery structure made from reinforced concrete....

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • field-tests
    • experiment
    • field-data
    • impact-testing
    • natural-hazard
    • rockfall
    • field-test
    • mass-movements
    • experiments
    • rockfall-experiments
  • Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset (Model input, snow distribution and validation) for the precipitation scaling paper, which should be cited along with the data set citation.

    This data is useful for...

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • ZIP
    • snow-hydrology
    • alpine3d
    • snow-cover
    • alpine-precipitation
    • snow-distribution
    • snow
    • alpine3d-simulations
  • 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
    • orographic-precipitation
    • complex-terrain
    • cosmo-wrf
    • snow-precipitation
    • precipitation-variability
  • G-TREE: Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Background information Climate change-induced range expansion of treeline populations depends on their successful recruitment, which requires dispersal of viable seeds followed by...

    Last updated: September 10, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • treeline
    • forest
    • stillberg
    • g-tree
    • seedling-recruitment
    • larix-decidua
    • climate-change
    • picea-abies
    • swiss-alps
  • 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
    • environmental---history
    • wetlands
    • environmental--policy
    • switzerland
    • ecology
    • historical-carthography