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G-TREE: Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment Davos, Switzerland

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

Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

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Total water reserves of the snow cover [mio m3] for Wägital catchment, Switzerland, for reference date April 1. Data is separated in 2 elevation zones 900m-1500m asl and...

Field-based eDNA analysis to detect the threatened and elusive African manatee

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Data associated to the publication "Rapid field-based detection of a threatened and elusive species with environmental DNA and CRISPR-Dx"
Authors:
Flurin Leugger,...

Historical Vegetation Height Model NFI

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The main datasets available are 4 nationwide Digital Surface Models (DSMs) and corresponding Vegetation Height Models (VHMs) with a spatial resolution of 1 m. The...

Angle of repose experiments with natural and spherical snow

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Angle of repose experiments were performed with different snow types at temperatures between -2 and -40°C. They were used to examine granular snow dynamics on the grain-scale with...

Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments

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This dataset contains four years of daily measurements of the natural isotopic composition (2H, 18O) of precipitation and stream water at the Alp catchment (area 47 km2) in Central...

Non-Binary Environmental Archive Data (NEAD) format

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Important note: From 2025 the NEAD format is being transformed into the interoperable CSV (iCSV) format, a formalized and standardized evolution of the NEAD format. Furthermore,...

Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

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Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

ICP Forests Defoliation and Symptoms Data Set

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This data set has been obtained after processing original data from the ICP Forests data infrastructure. It includes "clean" defoliation and symptoms data from 19 countries over...

Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses

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Dataset supporting the paper "Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses", published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.

The dataset refers to...

Compilation of normalized crack propagation speeds

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Compilation of normalized crack-propagation speeds (expressed as a fraction of the slab shear-wave speed).

The dataset contains crack-propagation speeds from DEM simulations (79...

Application of CRISPR-Dx and metabarcoding to catchment-level eDNA for terrestrial mammal detection

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General description

Data associated with the publication "CRISPR-Dx and metabarcoding perform similarly for monitoring mammals with eDNA on the catchment level in high-alpine...

Modeled and measured fluxes of latent and sensible heat and snow transport at S17 near Syowa in Antarctica

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This dataset supports a related publication (Sigmund et al., 2025) and contains

• results of four large-eddy simulations (LES) coupled to a Lagrangian model (LM) for snow...

Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples

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For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered...

Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

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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...

Expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, 2016/2017

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This dataset contains the data acquired during the expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station in December 2016 and January 2017. The dataset consits of meterorological...

Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

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This dataset contains the SnowMicroPen (SMP) data from 38 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winters 2015/16...

Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

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This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17....

Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019

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This dataset contains measurement and simulation data. The measurements characterize the standard meteorology, turbulence, and snow transport at the S17 site near Syowa Station in...

GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

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This dataset contains long-term snow water equivalent and corresponding snow depth data 11 observer sites in Switzerland between 1200 and 2500 m a.s.l. compiled for the Global...