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4 datasets found

  • Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Snow and air data was monitored at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) by an infrarot radiometer (Campbell SI-111) for snow temperature (°C), a snow height sensor (Lufft SHM-31)...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • raclets
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • snow-height
    • snow-temperature
    • temperature
  • Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 56 years of hydrometeorological measurements from small (first-order) catchments in the pre-alpine valley Alptal. Here we provide daily mean values; values...

    Last updated: March 17, 2025

    • XLS
    • alptal
    • first-order-catchment
    • meteorological-data
    • runoff
    • snow
    • subalpine
  • IMIS Phenology Data Since 1998

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Long-term phenological data in alpine regions are often limited to a few locations and thus, little is known about climate-change induced plant phenological shifts above the...

    Last updated: April 9, 2025

    • XLS
    • OCTET
    • PNG
    • alpine
    • climate
    • grassland
    • imis
    • long-term
    • monitoring
    • phenology
    • snow
    • snowmelt
    • ultrasonic
  • 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