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61 datasets found

  • Non-Binary Environmental Archive Data (NEAD) format

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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,...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

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    • SERVICE
    • csv
    • metadata-convention
    • meteorological-data-format
    • nead
    • research-data-management
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: September 10, 2025

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    • catchment-data
    • meteorological-data
    • rain-on-snow
    • snow-hydrology
    • snowpack
  • ICP Forests Defoliation and Symptoms Data Set

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: October 2, 2025

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    • crown-condition
    • defoliation
    • forest-heath
    • forest-vitality
    • icp-forests
  • 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...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

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    • ecosystem-functioning
    • grassland
    • herbivory
    • invasive-species
    • soil-biodiversity
  • 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...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

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    • crack-propagation
    • crack-speed
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • field-data
    • numerical-simulations
    • weak-layer
  • 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...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

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    • catchment
    • crispr-dx
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • edna
    • mammals
    • metabarcoding
    • national-park
  • 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...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

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    • antarctica
    • blowing-snow
    • drifting-snow
    • large-eddy-simulation
    • parameterization
    • snow-sublimation
    • turbulence
  • Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • 3d-ct-images
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • microstructure
    • snow-mechanics
    • spherical-model-snow
    • unconfined-compression-experiments
  • Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

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    Education, culture and sport

    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...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • amphibians
    • chelsa
    • climate-variablity
    • generalized-additive-models
    • generalized-linear-models
    • interannual-climate-variability
    • iucn
    • mammals
    • niche-models
    • random-forests
    • range-maps
    • reptiles
    • sdm
    • species-distribution-models
  • 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

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    • antarctica
    • drifting-snow
    • mass-flux
    • meteorological-data
    • snowmicropen
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
  • 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...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

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    • TXT
    • smp
    • snow
    • snowmicropen
    • wind-crust
    • wind-packing
  • 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....

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

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    • kinect
    • snow
    • wind-crust
    • wind-tunnel
    • wind-packing
  • 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...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

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    • antarctica
    • blowing-snow
    • drifting-snow
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • large-eddy-simulations
    • mass-flux
    • meteorological-data
    • micro-rain-radar
    • turbulence
  • 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...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

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    • gcos
    • snow
    • snow-height
    • snow-profile
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • Long-term meteorological and snow station at 2090 m a.s.l., Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland (1975 - present)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Important This EnviDat entry is outdated. The most recent, usable version of the data can be found under the new EnviDat entry "Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos,...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

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    • atmospheric-conditions
    • precipitation
    • radiation
    • temperature-profiles
    • wind
  • Bats in beaver systems

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains processed bat acoustic data collected to evaluate the ecological impacts of beaver-engineered ponds on bat species richness, activity, and feeding activity....

    Last updated: November 10, 2025

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    • OCTET
    • beaver
    • castor
    • chiroptera
    • deadwood
    • ecosystem-engineer
    • flying-arthropods
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • nature-conservation
    • wetland
  • Capillary rise rise experiments in snow using neutron radiography

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    This dataset consists of data related to capillary rise experiments performed with neutron radiography. There are 4 videos of capillary rise experiments as well as the files used...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • measurements
    • pore-water
    • snow
    • soil
    • transport
    • water
  • Soil measurements of Seewer Berg and Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains measured values of soil liquid water content, matric potential, and soil texture of 40 soil samples in Davos, Switzerland. The measurements were used for...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • alpine
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • lwc
    • matric-potential
    • measurements
    • soil
    • soil-classification
    • soil-texture
  • Data on interaction diversity in urban gardens

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    The data supports the paper "Local and landscape factors shape alpha and beta trophic interaction diversity in urban gardens". It provides: (1) the host-natural enemy interaction...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

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    • TXT
    • OCTET
    • bees
    • cavity-nesting
    • food-webs
    • host-enemy-interactions
    • hymenoptera
    • management-intensity
    • trap-nest
    • urban-ecology
    • urban-ecosystems
    • urbanization
    • wasps
    • zurich
  • Illgraben debris-flow characteristics 2023

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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    List of key debris flow variables from the WSL Illgraben monitoring station (2023) such as occurrence date and time, peak flow depth, peak flow velocity, total volume and bulk...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

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    • debris-flow
    • force-plate
    • illgraben
    • magnitude
    • monitoring-station