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148 datasets found

  • Snow depth, canopy structure and meterorological datasets from the Davos area, Switzerland, Winters 2012/13-2014/15, used for high-resolution forest snow modelling

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all snow, canopy and meteorological data presented and used in the publication: Mazzotti, G., Essery, R., Moeser, D. & Jonas T. (2020) 'Resolving spatial...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • forest-snow
    • forest-structure
    • snow-distribution
    • snow-energy-balance
    • snow-modelling
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

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    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at 4...

    Last updated: December 22, 2021

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • gnss
    • gps
    • liquid-water-content
    • lwc
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • swe
  • A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS

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    Education, culture and sport

    This python code uses the Finite Element library FEniCS (via docker) to solve the one dimensional partial differential equations for heat and mass transfer in snow. The results are...

    Last updated: February 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • numerical-model
    • pattern-formation
    • python
    • snow
    • vapor-transport
  • Species distribution maps of Fagales and Pinales (GDPlants)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains 1957 distribution maps of species from Fagales and Pinales constructed based on a method integrating polygon mapping and SDMs (Lyu et al., 2022). To...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

    • ZIP
    • fagales
    • pinales
    • species-distribution-model
    • species-occurrence
    • species-range-map
    • species-richness
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-failure
    • snow-micro-mechanics
  • Disdrometer Data Gotschnagrat

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    Education, culture and sport

    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was deployed at Gotschnagrat (LON: 9.849, LAT: 46.859) to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • disdrometer
    • hydrometeors
    • precipitation
    • raclets
    • visibility
  • Disdrometer Data Laret

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    Education, culture and sport

    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was used to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The instrument can classify eight different...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • disdrometer
    • hydrometeors
    • precipitation
    • raclets
    • visibility
  • Saltation of cohesive granular materials

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    Education, culture and sport

    The wind-driven saltation of sand and snow shapes dunes and ripples, generates dust emission, and erodes the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. Here, we use a model based on the...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • cohesion
    • saltation
    • sand
    • sediment
    • snow
    • wind
  • Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain

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    Education, culture and sport

    This is a technical documentation of the procedure to run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over complex alpine terrain using Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling...

    Last updated: August 29, 2022

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • complex-terrain
    • cosmo-wrf
    • high-resolution
    • meteoswiss
    • numerical-simulation
  • Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant multifaceted diversity

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises a large array of ecological data for the European Alps:

    (1) Current soil and climate predictors at various resolutions. (2) GBIF observations of the...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • ZIP
    • climate
    • ecological-indicator-values
    • functional-diversity
    • grain-size
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • soil
    • taxonomic-diversity
  • Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence-only species distribution models

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    Education, culture and sport

    Aim: While species distribution models (SDMs) are standard tools to predict species distributions, they can suffer from observation and sampling biases, particularly presence-only...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • ZIP
    • background-data
    • cluster
    • covariate-correction
    • environmental-stratification
    • independent-dataset
    • plant-species
    • point-process-model
    • random-stratified-sampling
    • survey-effort
    • target-group
  • Synchrony between spongy moth hatching and leaf phenology of temperate trees

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    Education, culture and sport

    The files correspond to the data and R-script used for the analyses of the following paper "Feasting on the ordinary or starving for the exceptional: phenological synchrony between...

    Last updated: July 11, 2023

    • ZIP
    • budburst
    • chilling
    • hatch
    • phenology
    • spongy-month
  • Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories in the Antarctic

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    Education, culture and sport

    Summary

    This data set contains Python programming code and modeled data discussed in a related research article. We developed a simple isotope model to study the drivers of the...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • antarctica
    • backward-trajectories
    • evaporation
    • isotopic-distillation
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • snow-sublimation
    • stable-water-isotopes
  • Terrestrial laser scans on Hammarryggen Ice Rise, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

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    Education, culture and sport

    Surface topography maps (spatial extent: 400 m x 400 m) obtained at approximately 300 m from the top of the Hammarryggen Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, using a...

    Last updated: September 20, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • antarctica
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • gridded-data
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
  • Data: Environmental drivers of eukaryotic plankton and fish biodiversity in an Arctic fjord

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the raw environmental DNA data associated with the publication Environmental drivers of eukaryotic plankton and fish biodiversity in an Arctic fjord in the...

    Last updated: August 7, 2023

    • ZIP
    • biodiversity
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • environmental-dna
    • fish
    • fjord
    • marine
    • plankton
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • CSV
    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • biodiversity
    • dispersal
    • ecology
    • reef-fish
    • traits
  • Land use projections and services for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data and scripts of publication:

    Madleina Gerecke, Oskar Hagen, Janine Bolliger, Anna M. Hersperger, Felix Kienast, Bronwyn Price, Loïc Pellissier (2019) Assessing potential...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • land-use
    • land-use-change
    • landscape-services
    • modeling
    • statistical-model
    • switzerland
    • urbanization
  • Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland at 2090 m a.s.l.

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information The Stillberg ecological treeline research site is located in the transition zone between the relatively humid climate of the Northern Alps and the...

    Last updated: October 9, 2023

    • ZIP
    • air-pressure
    • air-temperature
    • dew-point-temperature
    • precipitation-sum
    • relative-humidity
    • shortwave-radiation
    • snow-depth
    • soil-temperature
    • stillberg
    • treeline
    • wind-direction
    • wind-speed
  • A grain-size driven transition in the deformation mechanism in slow snow compression

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    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted consecutive loading-relaxation experiments at low strain rates to study the viscoplastic behavior of the intact ice matrix in snow. The experiments were conducted...

    Last updated: October 10, 2023

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • ice
    • microstructure
    • slow-snow-compression-experiments
    • snow-mechanics
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Long-term afforestation experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    The Stillberg ecological treeline research site in the Swiss Alps was established in 1975, with the aim to develop ecologically, technically, and...

    Last updated: October 19, 2023

    • ZIP
    • afforestation
    • long-term-experiment
    • mountain-forest
    • stillberg
    • treeline