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79 datasets found

  • ATLFISHREF A 12S mitochondrial reference dataset for metabarcoding Atlantic Fishes frequently caught during scientific surveys in the Bay of Biscay

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    The global biodiversity crisis driven by anthropogenic pressures significantly threatens marine ecosystems functioning. The rate of climate change and the impacts of anthropogenic...

    Last updated: December 2, 2024

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    • 12s
    • actinopterygii
    • atlantic-ocean
    • barcoding
    • environmental-dna
    • mitochondrial-dna
    • teleo-primers
  • Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Erlenbach Catchment

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    The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Erlenbach catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2021, as...

    Last updated: October 30, 2024

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    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • channel
    • data
    • dataset
    • drainage
    • drainage-network
    • dynamics
    • erlenbach
    • precipitation
    • water-level
  • High resolution global standardized drought indices

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    The dataset consists of the standardized precipitation (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) index with a 30 arcsec (~1km) horizontal resolution....

    Last updated: January 28, 2025

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    • chelsa
    • drought
    • extreme-events
    • megadrought
    • multi-year-drought
    • potential-evapotranspiration
    • precipitation
  • Data Konzeptionelles Systemmodell

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    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

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    • climate-change
    • landscape-change
    • policy-action
    • qualitative-research
    • scenarios
  • WFJ_MOD: Meteorological and snowpack measurements from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Dataset of meteorological and snowpack measurements from the automatic weather station at Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, suitable for driving snowpack models. The dataset...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • air-temperature
    • humidity
    • longwave-radiation
    • precipitation-amount
    • shortwave-radiation
    • snow-depth
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • wind-direction
    • wind-speed
  • DISCHMEX - High-resolution daily snow ablation rates in an Alpine environment

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    We recorded snow ablation maps with a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS, Riegl-VZ6000) at the Gletschboden area. The TLS position is located approximately 30 vertical meters above the...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • patchy-snow-covers
    • riegl-vz6000
    • snow-ablation-rates
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • tls
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

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    Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological parameter...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • dischma
    • dischmex
    • meteo-station
    • meteorological-data
    • meteorological-measurements
  • Mountain Permafrost Hydrology

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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). In earlier reports such as the...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • climate-change-impacts
    • ice-rich-permafrost
    • mass-movements
    • monitoring-techniques
    • mountain-permafrost-hydrology
    • permafrost-degradation
  • European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

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    The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • cost-action-es1404-harmosnow
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • harmonisation-of-snow-measurements
    • snow-depth
    • snow-measurement-methods
    • spatial-distribution-of-snow-observations-in-europe
    • water-equivalent-of-the-snow-cover
  • Data set of: Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to measure, explain, and predict: some practical recommendations for determining plant water sources

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    The following two tables contain information about the data sources of the values reported in Table 1 and 2 in the paper “Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • ecohydrology
    • endmember-mixing-models
    • plant-water-uptake
    • review
    • root-zone
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • uncertainties
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • groundwater
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • solutes
    • stream-water
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2021 in the Erlenbach Catchment

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    The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2021 in the Erlenbach catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • erlenbach
    • groundwater
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • precipitation
    • solutes
    • stream-water
  • Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Haute-Mentue catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2022, as...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • channel
    • drainage
    • drainage-network
    • dynamics
    • precipitation
    • water-level
  • CH-Kleinstwasserkraftwerke - ein schweizweiter Datensatz zu Kleinstwasserkraftwerken

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    In der Schweiz werden Wasserkraftanlagen (WKA) mit einer Leistung von mehr als 300 kW systematisch erfasst und in der nationalen Wasserkraftstatistik (WASTA) zusammengetragen. Die...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • datensatz
    • kleinstwasserkraftwerke
    • schweiz
    • speed2zero
    • wasserkraft
  • Sample plot inventory data form the Parc Naturel du Jorat

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    The Jorat is one of the largest continously forested areas in the Swiss Plateau. On a forested area of 778 ha, the Parc Naturel du Jorat (PNJ), a periurban parc, has been...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • beech
    • forest-in
    • forest-reserves
    • swiss-plateau
    • temperate-forests
  • Spatio-temporal soil and local snow monitoring in a glide-snow avalanche prone slope above Davos Switzerland

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    This dataset consists of spatio-temporal soil measurements and local snow measurements which were recorded to investigate glide-snow avalanche release in the Seewer Berg slope...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • snow-profile
    • soil-moisture
  • Data analysis toolkits

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    These are condensed notes covering selected key points in data analysis and statistics. They were developed by James Kirchner for the course "Analysis of Environmental Data" at...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • bayesian-inference
    • data-analysis
    • error-propagation
    • hypothesis-testing
    • statistics
    • uncertainty
  • In-situ soil moisture measurements Napf-region

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    In the context of landslide early warning research, soil moisture (e.g. volumetric soil water content and soil water potential) has been measured at six locations in the...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • landslide-early-warning
    • soil-moisture
    • soil-temperature
    • soil-water-content
    • soil-water-matrix-potential
  • Swiss-wide survey on restorative places and road traffic noise

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

    Last updated: March 28, 2025

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    • landscape-perception
    • outdoor-restoration
    • ppgis
    • survey
    • traffic-noise
  • Starter Kit for the TreeMig framework v1 for easy simulation of spatio-temporal forest dynamics

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    Starter kit for the TreeMig framework that allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental...

    Last updated: May 2, 2025

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    • bioclimatic-variables
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-model
    • gui
    • land-use
    • r-package
    • spatial-modelling
    • species-interaction
    • species-migration
    • treemig