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472 datasets found

  • 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: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • biomass
    • forest-inventory
    • lidar
    • single-tree
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • tree-volume
  • GEM2: Meteorological and snow station at Gemsstock (3021 m asl), Canton Uri, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological station at Gemstock (3021 m asl) in Canton Uri. The station includes in/out LW/SW and a snow height sensor.

    Data from this station is managed by the permos.ch...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • gemstock
    • longwave-radiation
    • meteo-station
    • shortwave-radiation
    • snow-height
  • Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Overview The SUNWELL Modelling Environment is a combination of data and code that models electricity production from satellite-derived irradiance data and other spatial data sets...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • albedo
    • energy
    • irradiance
    • mountain
    • photovoltaic
    • reflection
    • snow
  • Acoustic Data from the PMA Bedload Monitoring System

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains experimental acoustic and vibration signals recorded by the Phased Microphone Arrays (PMA) system during laboratory impact calibration tests. The PMA system...

    Last updated: November 3, 2025

    • ZIP
    • accelerometer
    • acoustic-signals
    • bedload-transport
    • impact-test
    • localization
    • microphone
    • monitoring-techniques
    • natural-hazards
    • particle-size
    • surrogate-measurement
  • Vegetation Height Model Sentinel NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery and the digital terrain model (DTM) swissALTI3D from the Swiss...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • TIFF
    • cnn
    • forest
    • nfi
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • switzerland
    • vegetation-height
  • Data and code for Community structure and range shifts in Arctic marine fish under climate change

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data and code for the paper published in Ecography: Community structure and range shifts in Arctic marine fish under climate change Abstract: Arctic marine ecosystems are rapidly...

    Last updated: November 3, 2025

    • ZIP
    • arctic
    • climate-change
    • community-structure
    • environmental-dna
    • fish
  • Snow on Antarctic Sea Ice - McMurdo Sound 2022

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data of snow and sea ice in the McMurdo Sound, October-December 2022. The data was collected as part of the New Zealand Marsden Fund Research Grant 21-VUW-103 "Can Snow Change the...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • ZIP
    • antarctica
    • drone-data
    • polar
    • sea-ice
    • snow
    • spatial-variability
  • Thermal acclimation fails to confer a carbon budget advantage to invasive species over natives

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset originates from a two-year transplant experiment conducted across a temperature gradient in Europe (mean annual temperatures: 8.4–21.8 °C). It includes physiological...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • ZIP
    • acclimation
    • invasive-species
    • leaf
    • photosynthesis
    • respiration
    • spac-model
  • Cloud Optimized Raster Encoding (CORE) format

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Acknowledgements: The CORE format was proudly inspired by the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format, by considering how to leverage the ability of clients...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • core
    • geodata
    • gridded-data
    • raster
    • research-data-management
    • sentinel-2
    • time-series
    • video-encoding
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This is the simulation dataset from "Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland", M. Bavay, T. Grünewald, M. Lehning,...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • climate-change
    • graubunden
    • snow
    • switzerland
  • Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Overview We present GROUNDEYE, a new model of radiative transfer over mountainous terrain, which considers for the first time the forward scattering properties of snow. Embedded...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • albedo
    • photovoltaic
    • shortwave-radiation
    • snow
    • winter-energy-production
  • Dataset for: Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This work presents the first extensive study of climate change impacts on rivers temperature in Switzerland. Results show that even for low emissions scenarios, water temperature...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • climate-change-impact
    • discharge
    • hydrology
    • model
    • water-temperature
  • DISCHMEX - Observations and simulations of the close-ridge small-scale atmospheric flow field and snow accumulation at Sattelhorn, Dischma valley, Davos, Switzerland.

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data presented here corresponds to the publication "A Close-Ridge Small-Scale Atmospheric Flow Field and its Influence on Snow Accumulation" (Gerber et al., 2017), which...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • ZIP
    • alpine3d
    • lee-side-flow-field
    • lidar
    • preferential-deposition
    • tls
  • Expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, 2016/2017

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • antarctica
    • drifting-snow
    • mass-flux
    • meteorological-data
    • snowmicropen
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
  • Sub-Rayleigh to supershear fracture transition in long Propagation Saw Tests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the experimental results described in Bergfeld et al. (2025). It includes three Propagation Saw Test (PST) experiments, each approximately 9 m long, performed...

    Last updated: November 6, 2025

    • TIFF
    • OCTET
    • PDF
    • crack-propagation
    • crack-speed
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • weak-layer
  • Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • smp
    • snow
    • snowmicropen
    • wind-crust
    • wind-packing
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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....

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • kinect
    • snow
    • wind-crust
    • wind-tunnel
    • wind-packing
  • Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • antarctica
    • blowing-snow
    • drifting-snow
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • large-eddy-simulations
    • mass-flux
    • meteorological-data
    • micro-rain-radar
    • turbulence
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Overview

    The CH2014-Impacts initiative is a concerted national effort to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively, drawing on the scientific resources...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ch2011
    • ch2014
    • climate-change
    • snow-depth
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • 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: November 7, 2025

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • mountain
    • precipitation
    • raclets
    • radar
    • rain
    • snow