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150 datasets found

  • Soil sealing Barcelona and Milan different territorial levels

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset description
    This dataset is a recalculation of the Copernicus 2015 high resolution layer (HRL) of imperviousness density data (IMD) at different spatial/territorial...

    Last updated: May 11, 2022

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    • barcelona
    • copernicus
    • imperviousness
    • milan
    • soil-sealing
    • urban-atlas
  • Relationship between physical forest characteristics, visual attractiveness and perception of ecosystem services in urban forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    This questionnaire survey was conducted as an online survey and aimed at investigating the relationship between physical forest characteristics, visual attractiveness of forest and...

    Last updated: June 10, 2022

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    • adults-and-teenagers
    • nfi-photos
    • online-questionnaire-survey
    • perception-of-ecosystem-services
    • visual-attractiveness
  • SnowMicroPen measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

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    SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Measurements were taken in the vicinity of the Belgium Princess Elisabeth Station...

    Last updated: June 21, 2022

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    • antarctica
    • microstructure
    • snow-density
    • snow-density-profile
    • snowmicropen
  • Preprocessing Antarctic Weather Station (AWS) data in python

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    Education, culture and sport

    There are many sources providing atmospheric weather station data for the Antarctic continent. However, variable naming, timestamps and data types are highly variable between the...

    Last updated: August 12, 2022

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    • antarctica
    • aws
    • consistent
    • cryowrf
    • python
  • Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review

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    Education, culture and sport

    Compiled data on the impacts of seven important NNTs (Acacia dealbata, Ailanthus altissima, Eucalyptus globulus, Prunus serotina, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, Robinia...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

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    • biodiversity
    • biogeography
    • forest-management
    • pairwise-stand-comparisons
    • soil-impacts
  • Observed and simulated snow profile data

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    This data set includes information on all observed and simulated snow profiles that were used to train and validate the random forest model described in Mayer et al. (2022). The RF...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

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    • failure-layer
    • rutschblock
    • snow-instability
    • snow-profiles
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snowpack
    • snowpack-simulation
  • An ice oxygen K-edge NEXAFS spectroscopy data set on gas-phase processing

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data are compiled that have been used to demonstrate the impact of high water partial pressure on X-ray absorption spectra of ice.

    Last updated: January 19, 2023

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    • atmosphere
    • chemistry
    • ice
    • laboratory-study
    • snow-atmosphere-interactions
  • Flowering Plants (Angiospermae) in Urban Green Areas in five European Cities

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data of a survey of flowering plants in 80 sites in five European cities and urban agglomerations (Antwerp, Belgium; greater Paris, France; Poznan, Poland; Tartu, Estonia; and...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

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    • angiospermae
    • antwerp
    • floral-inventories
    • floral-resources
    • paris
    • plants
    • poznan
    • tartu
    • urban
    • zurich
  • Drivers of the microbial metabolic quotient across global grasslands

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    Risch Anita C., Zimmermann, Stefan, Schütz, Martin, Borer, Elizabeth T.,...

    Last updated: February 21, 2023

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    • anthropogenic-management
    • climate
    • herbivore-exclusion
    • microbial-biomass-carbon
    • microbial-respiration
    • nutrient-addition
    • soil-properties
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Wolfgang Arelen

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    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted four drone flights in Davos Wolfgang Arelen, in 2020/21 and 2022 to obtain data for the generation of DSMs and orthomosaics at a high resolution. The data was...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

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    • drone-data
    • dsm
    • photogrammetry
    • uav
    • wingtra
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Schürlialp

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data was collected on 16.04.2021 and on 28.05.2021 with a Wingtra Gen II and a Sony RX1 II RGB sensor to obtain snow depth and distribution data. Following the data collection,...

    Last updated: February 22, 2023

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    • drone-data
    • dsm
    • orthophoto
    • photogrammetry
    • uav
    • wingtra
  • Energy Cooperatives in Switzerland: Survey Results // Energiegenossenschaften in der Schweiz: Befragungsergebnisse

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    Education, culture and sport

    Topic of Survey The data at hand on energy cooperatives in Switzerland were collected in 2016 as part of the project "Collective financing of renewable energy projects in...

    Last updated: March 1, 2023

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    • community-energy
    • cooperatives
    • energy-cooperatives
    • renewable-energy
    • switzerland
  • Multi-Scale Prioritization framework for Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure Planning to Support Biodiversity: Data & Codes

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data includes (1) Scripts to aggregate landscape resistance layers into squared and hexagonal grids (i.e., different representations and resolutions), (2) Input resistance...

    Last updated: April 3, 2023

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    • biodiversity
    • circuit-theory
    • ecological-corridors
    • ecosystem-services
    • network-analysis
    • urban-planning
  • Glide-snow avalanche activity on Dorfberg, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the processed data of the glide-snow avalanche activity and dynamics on Dorfberg (Davos, Switzerland) covering seasons 2008/09 to 2021/22. This dataset was...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

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    • avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • snowpack-simulation
    • time-lapse-photography
  • SWE2HS model calibration and validation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data in this repository was used for the calibration and validation of the SWE2HS model in the following publication: Aschauer, J., Michel, A., Jonas, T., & Marty, C. (2023)....

    Last updated: April 28, 2023

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    • model-calibration-data
    • model-validation-data
    • snow-density
    • snow-depth
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • eemma.R, an R script for Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis

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    The R script eemma.R, which implements Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis (EEMMA) to estimate source fractions in mixtures, exploiting information contained in time-series...

    Last updated: June 12, 2023

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    • OCTET
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    • eemma
    • emma
    • end-member-mixing-analysis
    • mixing-models
    • stable-isotopes
    • tracers
  • 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

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    • ZIP
    • antarctica
    • backward-trajectories
    • evaporation
    • isotopic-distillation
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • snow-sublimation
    • stable-water-isotopes
  • Data and Code on Extreme Inflow and Lowflow Analysis for Alpine Reservoirs

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    Education, culture and sport

    Summary

    • Dataset of daily inflow to Luzzone reservoir in Ticino, Switzerland

    • R scripts used to generate return levels for low reservoir inflow, low precipitation, high...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

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    • alpine-precipitation
    • extreme-values
    • low-flow
    • reservoir-inflow
    • return-periods
  • Terrestrial laser scans on Hammarryggen Ice Rise, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

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    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

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    • ZIP
    • antarctica
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • gridded-data
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
  • 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

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    • biodiversity
    • dispersal
    • ecology
    • reef-fish
    • traits