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90 datasets found

  • Psychophysiological effects of walking in forests and urban built environments with disparate road traffic noise exposure

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    This repository contains data related to the field experiments of the RESTORE project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

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    • OCTET
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    • field-data
    • forest
    • restoration
    • traffic-noise
    • urban-landscape
  • Modified TypoCH reference list of diagnostic species for the classification of vegetation types in Switzerland

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    The TypoCH scoring system (Eggenberg & Bornand 2023), which is widely used in Switzerland, provides good results as classification method for vegetation types based on Delarze et...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

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    • character-species
    • diagnostic-species
    • phytosociology
    • typoch
    • vegetation-classification
    • vegetation-type
  • 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
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

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    Here debrisInterMixing until version 7 is provided for download. Further versions as well as installation instructions and tutorials and discussion forums (mostly in german) can be...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • barrier-impact-simulation
    • dberisintermixing
    • debris-flow
    • finite-volumes
    • hangmuren
    • interfoam
    • murgang
    • natural-hazard
    • shallow-landslide
  • Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7–9 June 2021, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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    Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7-9 June 2021,...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • air-pollution
    • forest
    • long-term-monitoring
    • long-term-forest-ecosystem-research
    • monitoring
  • Sub-Rayleigh to supershear fracture transition in long Propagation Saw Tests

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    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

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    • crack-propagation
    • crack-speed
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • weak-layer
  • Snow Drift Station - Micro Rain Radar

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    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

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    • mountain
    • precipitation
    • raclets
    • radar
    • rain
    • snow
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

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    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

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    • climate-change-impacts
    • hydrology
    • snow
    • snowfall
    • water-cycle
  • Case study applications demonstrating the use and potential of the TreeMig framework v1

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    The TreeMig framework allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental and land use...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

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    • bioclimatic-variables
    • climate-change
    • example-applications
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-management
    • land-use
    • r-package
    • spatial-modelling
    • species-migration
    • treemig
  • Restwasser-Datenbank

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    (in English below) Der erweiterte Ausbau der Wasserkraftproduktion steht im Spannungsfeld mit der Sicherstellung ökologischer Funktionen von Fliessgewässern. Die neu entwickelte...

    Last updated: November 21, 2025

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    • dotierwasser
    • konzessionen
    • restwasser
    • wasserkraft
    • wasserwirtschaft