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61 datasets found

  • Carabid beetles in forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types.

    Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract...

    Last updated: February 12, 2025

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • arthropoda
    • carabidae
    • coleoptera
    • forest
    • insects
    • running-beetles
    • trapping
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland. Typical snow profile measurements and observations are included (temperature, density, grain size,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-density
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • weisfluhjoch
  • Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps (1969/1970 - 2014/2015)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    During the last 45 years, about 100 people lost their lives in avalanches in the European Alps each year. Avalanche fatalities in settlements and on transportation corridors have...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • TXT
    • avalanche-accident
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • avalanche-statistics
    • long-term-trends
  • 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: February 13, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • advection
    • metamorphism
    • snow
    • stable-water-isotope
    • 18o
  • Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Two data sets obtained for snow farming projects (Fluela, Davos, CH and Martell, IT) in 2015.

    The data set contains for each site:

    • 10 cm GIS raster of snow depth calculated...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • snow
    • snow-conservation
    • snow-farming
    • snowpack
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • winter-tourism
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees and...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • XLS
    • TXT
    • forest
    • fractional-snow
    • longwave-radiation
    • shading
    • shortwave-radiation
  • European Beech tree-ring dataset 1952-2020

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the raw ring-width and climate data (1952-2020), as well as the R code to run the model and the model output used in the research article "No future growth...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • OCTET
    • TXT
    • beech
    • dendrochronology
    • dendroecology
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • network-analysis
    • tree-ring
  • Quantitative Wood Anatomy and Maximum Latewood Density from Yamal peninsula

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data (Quantitative Wood Anatomy, Maximum Latewood Density, Volumetric Density, holo-cellulose-to-wood-ratio) used in the manuscript "New Prospects for Temperature Reconstructions...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • CSV
    • mxd
    • paleoclimate
    • temperature-reconstruction
    • tree-ring
    • wood-anatomy
  • 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity for seven sites in the Swiss Alps as well as the downscaled climate scenarios and SNOWPACK...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • avalanche
    • climate-change
    • climate-projections
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-instability
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • wet-snow-avalanche
  • Ring wind tunnel experiments - airborne snow metamorphism and stable water isotopes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset collection contains all datasets collected during the ring wind tunnel experiments in January and May 2023 at the SLF cold laboratory facilities in Davos. A full...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • blowing-snow
    • cold-lab
    • drifting-snow
    • experiments
    • metamorphism
    • snow-saltation
    • water-isotopes
    • wind-tunnel
  • Nuclear microsatellite genotypes of Pinus cembra

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains individual genotypes at 11 nuclear microsatellite markers of samples of Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra). Samples were collected in 12 natural and presumably...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • CSV
    • afforestation
    • genetic-structure
    • molecular-markers
    • pinus-cembra
    • reproductive-matieral
  • Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    These data were used to drive and evaluate Jules Investigation Model (JIM) snow simulations. The data provided are the forcing data used for the "deterministic" runs as described...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • jim
    • jules-investigation-model
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • snow-simulation
  • Spatio-temporal soil and local snow monitoring in a glide-snow avalanche prone slope above Davos Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset consists of spatio-temporal soil measurements and local snow measurements which were recorded to investigate glide-snow avalanche release in the Seewer Berg slope...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • PDF
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • snow-profile
    • soil-moisture
  • SnowTinel high-temporal-resolution ground truth dataset for SAR remote sensing of snow

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Currently, this dataset is intended solely for article review purposes and may not be used for any other purposes. This dataset consists of a series of full snow profiles...

    Last updated: March 24, 2025

    • TXT
    • OCTET
    • CSV
    • radar
    • satellite
    • sentinel-1
    • snow-density
    • snow-lwc
    • snow-melt
    • snow-profiles
    • snow-roughness
    • snow-ssa
    • snow-temperature
    • surface-roughness
    • wet-snow
  • 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: March 26, 2025

    • TXT
    • climate-change
    • forest
    • g-tree
    • larix-decidua
    • picea-abies
    • seedling-recruitment
    • stillberg
    • swiss-alps
    • treeline
  • Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: April 30, 2025

    • TXT
    • gcos
    • meteodat-gmbh
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • wagital
  • Field-based eDNA analysis to detect the threatened and elusive African manatee

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • african-manatee
    • biodiversity-monitoring
    • crispr-cas
    • crispr-dx
    • edna
    • environmental-dna
    • field-based-protocol
    • qpcr
    • threatened-species
  • Historical Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • dsm
    • forest
    • historical
    • nfi
    • photogrammetry
    • vhm
  • Angle of repose experiments with natural and spherical snow

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • angle-of-repose
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • fast-sintering
    • grain-shape
    • granular-snow
  • Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • alptal
    • catchment
    • hydrology
    • precipitation
    • stable-water-isotope
    • stream-water