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42 datasets found

  • Resurveyed vegetation releves of beech forests in the Swiss Jura Mountains

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprised 254 historical (1937 – 1948) and resurveyed (2019 – 2022) vegetation relevés of beech-dominated forests sites in the Swiss Jura mountains. The data contains...

    Last updated: February 21, 2024

    • XLS
    • air-pollution
    • climate-change
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • forest-management
    • ground-vegetation
  • High resolution monthly precipitation and temperature timeseries for the period 2006-2100

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Predicting future climatic conditions at high spatial resolution is essential for many applications in science. Here we present data for monthly time series of precipitation and...

    Last updated: September 19, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • air-temperature
    • climate-change
    • cmip5
    • orographic-precipitation
    • precipitation-amount
  • Data Konzeptionelles Systemmodell

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This folder contains documents relevant to the project step Konzeptionelles Systemmodell. It specifically contains the following documents:

    1. 0201_Konzeptionelles...

    Last updated: February 3, 2025

    • XLS
    • PDF
    • climate-change
    • landscape-change
    • policy-action
    • qualitative-research
    • scenarios
  • MadCrypto – Bryophyte and macrolichen diversity in laurel forests of Madeira

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes species lists of bryophytes and macrolichens (presence/absence) sampled on the forest floor and on trees in disturbed and undisturbed plots along elevation...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • bryophyte
    • bryophyte-life-strategy
    • climate-change
    • climate-change-impact
    • disturbance
    • elevational-gradient
    • endemic
    • endemic-species
    • functional-taxonomic-group
    • functional-taxonomic-groups
    • lichen
    • lichen-growth-form
    • lichen-growthform
    • liverwort
    • madeira-island
    • moss
    • photobiont
  • 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
  • Fetzer_Khibiny_Treeline_NPcycling

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on soil nutrients and charcteristics, tree and understory biomass, foliage nutrients, mineralogy, soil temperature and moisture along an elevation gradient from boreal forest...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • biomass-dynamics
    • climate-change
    • plant-community
    • plant-traits
    • soil-nutrients
    • treeline-ecosystems
  • Data on Douglas fir seedlings from the DOCH-WO experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data is related to the publication "Non-native Douglas fir seedlings outcompete native Norway spruce, silver fir and Scots pine under dry and nutrient-poor conditions". It...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • douglas-fir
    • drought
    • european-beech
    • norway-spruce
  • 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
  • Site description Davos Seehornwald CH-DAV

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    Education, culture and sport

    Site description of the Seehornwald Davos (CH-DAV) research site. The material provided offers information on the biomass and growth of trees in CH-DAV, including supporting...

    Last updated: May 7, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • automated-monitoring
    • biomass
    • carbon-cycle
    • carbon-dioxide
    • carbon-sequestration
    • carbon-storage
    • climate-change
    • climate-growth
    • co2
    • davos
    • dbh
    • dendrometer
    • ecophysiology
    • ecosystem-functioning
    • eddy-covariance
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • flux
    • forest
    • forest-area
    • forest-biomass
    • forest-canopy
    • forest-characteristics
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-ecosystems
    • forest-function
    • forest-monitoring
    • icos
    • icp-forests
    • ilter
    • lwf
    • metadata
    • open-data
    • picea-abies
    • sap-flow
    • seehornwald
    • stem-growth
    • subalpine
    • tree-stem
    • treenet
    • twd
    • water-relations
  • Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand...

    Last updated: July 2, 2025

    • ZIP
    • biodiversity
    • climate-change
    • ecology
    • forest
    • microclimate
    • radiation-transfer
    • statistical-interpolation
  • Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs provides estimates of current and future water supply, water demand, and storage volumes for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland. Water...

    Last updated: July 8, 2025

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • reservoirs
    • water-demand
    • water-scarcity
    • water-supply
  • Biogeochemical data from a transplantation experiment of monolith soil turfs along an altitudinal gradient to simulate climate change scenarios

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Silvopastoral systems are highly productive and combine long-term wood production with annual provision of forage for livestock. In the Swiss Jura Mountains these systems are a key...

    Last updated: July 10, 2025

    • ZIP
    • biogeochemisty
    • climate-change
    • silvopastoral-systems
    • soil
    • transplantation-experiment
  • FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • carbon-dioxide
    • climate-change
    • experiment
    • soil-temperature
    • stillberg
    • vegetation
  • Assessment of thermal stabilisation measures based on numerical simulations at a Swiss Alpine permafrost site

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This work presents the numerical study of the thermal stabilisation methods to slow this permafrost thawing, protecting from landscapes and infrastructure damaging at an alpine...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • ZIP
    • barrier-layer
    • climate-change
    • cooling-pipes
    • heat-pump
    • permafrost
    • permafrost-degradation
    • solar-energy
    • swiss-alps
    • thermal-insulation
    • thermal-stabilisation
  • A novel approach for bridging the gap between climate change scenarios and avalanche hazard indication mapping

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To assess the possible consequences of potential changes in snow accumulation and temperature and their impact on avalanche hazard, we introduce a comprehensive multi-step...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-mapping
    • climate-change
    • hazard
    • new-snow
    • ramms
  • Assessing the impacts of climate change on snow avalanche-induced risk in alpine regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    By using hazard scenarios based on CH2018 climate projections and the RAMMS avalanche model, we generated large-scale hazard indication maps for future avalanche hazards. By...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • climada
    • climate-change
    • ramms
    • risk
    • snow-avalanche
  • Meteorological Time Series Aligned with Projected Temperature Changes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides 50 years of seasonal synthetic hourly time series for five meteorological variables: incoming shortwave radiation, total precipitation, relative humidity,...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • air-temperature
    • climate-change
    • meteo-station
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • shortwave-radiation
    • speed2zero
    • time-series
    • wind-speed
  • Data and code for Community structure and range shifts in Arctic marine fish under climate change

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    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
  • 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
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014

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    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