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4 datasets found

  • Data supplement to Hyper-resolution large-scale hydrological modelling benefits from improved process representation in mountain regions

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data supplement contains the data associated with the manuscript: "Hyper-resolution large-scale hydrological modelling benefits from improved process representation in...

    Last updated: November 28, 2025

    • ZIP
    • discharge
    • european-alps
    • hydrological-simulations
    • hydrology
    • large-scale
  • Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980-2099 derived from the 50 member CRCM5-LE

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980 - 2099 as stated in the paper "Climate change impacts on regional fire weather in heterogeneous...

    Last updated: December 22, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • climate
    • climate-change
    • climate-indicators
    • europe
    • european-alps
    • fire
    • forest-fire
    • indicator-values
    • meteorological-data
    • mountains
  • Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the data used in the publication by Techel et al., 2018 Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts - a case study in the European Alps (Nat Haz...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • avalanche-forecast
    • danger-level
    • european-alps
    • snow
    • warning-regions
  • Present and future multifaceted plant diversity, uniqueness and conservation in the European Alps

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains extensive data for the European Alps:

    • Observations of ~3,500 plant species
    • Climate (1-km), soil (100-m) and land cover predictors (1km); current...

    Last updated: June 2, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • beta-diversity
    • conservation
    • european-alps
    • functional-diversity
    • global-change
    • land-use-change
    • migclim
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • plants
    • species-distribution-models
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • zonation