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148 datasets found

  • Dataset for the publication New particle formation events can reduce cloud droplets in boundary layer clouds at the continental scale

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains PMCMx-UF model outputs used for the paper: D. Patoulias K. Florou S. N. Pandis and A. Nenes: New particle formation events can reduce cloud droplets in...

    Last updated: November 14, 2023

    • ZIP
    • cloud-droplets
    • modeling
    • nucleation
    • pmcamx-uf
    • total-number
  • Effective, anisotropic elasticity tensor of snow, firn, and bubbly ice

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    Education, culture and sport

    The study aims to determine the effective elastic properties of snow, firn, and bubbly ice based on microstructural quantities. Anisotropy, one of these quantities (the other being...

    Last updated: November 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • anisotropy
    • crystallographic
    • elasticity
    • fem
    • geometrical
    • microstructure
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the output and reference data published in the paper "Automated snow avalanche release area delineation - validation of existing algorithms and proposition of...

    Last updated: January 17, 2024

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • hazard-mapping
    • ramms
    • release
    • snow
  • Soil property maps for the Swiss forest

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We used 2071 forest soil profiles to model a wide range of soil properties for the forested area of Switzerland. The spatial prediction is based on the principle of «digital soil...

    Last updated: February 26, 2024

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • dsm
    • forest
    • soc
    • soil
    • soil-depth
    • soil-ph
    • soil-properties
    • soil-texture
    • switzerland
  • snowBedFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian-Lagrangian solver for modelling snow transport

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    Education, culture and sport

    snowBedFoam 1.0. is a snow transport solver implemented in the computational fluid dynamics software OpenFOAM. It is adapted from the standard multi-phase flow solver DPMFoam for...

    Last updated: March 25, 2024

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • antarctica
    • arctic-sea-ice
    • mosaic
    • openfoam
    • snow-deposition
    • snow-transport
  • High resolution land use forecasts for Switzerland in the 21st century

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    Education, culture and sport

    We present forecasts of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change for Switzerland for three time-steps in the 21st century under the representative concentration pathways 4.5 and 8.5, and...

    Last updated: March 27, 2024

    • ZIP
    • land-cover
    • land-use
    • landscape
    • landscape-change
    • machine-learning
    • modelling
  • COSMO-WRF Dataset for Swiss Alps Simulations in Gray-Zone Resolution

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains simulation data for "Influence of Air Flow Features on Alpine Wind Energy Potential" (Kristianti et al., 2024). • The WRF_dia2702 and WRF_dia1103 folders...

    Last updated: April 23, 2024

    • ZIP
    • complex-terrain
    • cosmo-wrf
    • grayzone
    • numerical-simulation
    • wrf
  • Data on multi-year drought impacts on European beech in northern Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This study investigated multi-year drought impacts on beech forests through a unique large-scale monitoring of 963 individual beech trees, which showed either premature leaf...

    Last updated: May 2, 2024

    • ZIP
    • drought-2018
    • european-summer-drought
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forests
    • growth-reaction-to-drought-stress
    • leaf-senescence
  • Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

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    Education, culture and sport

    Preferential deposition of snow and dust over complex terrain is responsible for a wide range of environmental processes, and accounts for a significant source of uncertainty in...

    Last updated: June 3, 2024

    • ZIP
    • atmosphere
    • deposition
    • dust
    • hill
    • particles
    • snow
    • turbulence
  • Root-traits

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    Education, culture and sport

    Fine-root traits of Scots pine in response to enhanced soil water availability deriving from long-term irrigation in the Pfynwald

    Data_Fig.1.xlsx Fine-root biomass of the topsoil...

    Last updated: June 3, 2024

    • ZIP
    • belowground-biomass
    • drought
    • fine-root-traits
    • ingrowth-cores
    • soil-coring
  • Multi-resolution CLM5 simulations across Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains Community Land Model 5 (CLM5) simulation output over the spatial extent of Switzerland at different resolutions and based on a range of input datasets. It...

    Last updated: July 16, 2024

    • ZIP
    • clm5
    • evapotranspiration
    • forest-productivity
    • high-resolution
    • land-cover
    • land-use
    • oshd
    • snow
    • snow-simulation
  • FSM2trans code

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the FORTRAN code of the FSM2trans model version used in the paper: Quéno et al., Snow redistribution in an intermediate-complexity snow hydrology modelling...

    Last updated: August 9, 2024

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • avalanche
    • snow-modelling
    • snowdrift
    • snowpack
    • source-code
  • CALISHTO campaign dataset for the publication Biological and Dust Aerosols as Sources of Ice-nucleating Particles in the Eastern Mediterranean

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains all observational data sets during CALISHTO campaign used for the paper: Gao, K., Vogel, F., Foskinis, R., Vratolis, S., Gini, M. I., Granakis, K.,...

    Last updated: September 4, 2024

    • ZIP
    • aerosol-cloud-interactions
    • aerosol-source-apportionment
    • biological-particles
    • ice-nucleation
    • inp-parameterization
  • Supporting information for case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of macrofungi

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    Education, culture and sport

    Resources associated with the manuscript A case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of macrofungi ([Schlegel et al....

    Last updated: September 10, 2024

    • ZIP
    • air-sampling
    • environmental-dna
    • metabarcoding
    • monitoring
    • spore-dispersal
  • ATLFISHREF A 12S mitochondrial reference dataset for metabarcoding Atlantic Fishes frequently caught during scientific surveys in the Bay of Biscay

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • 12s
    • actinopterygii
    • atlantic-ocean
    • barcoding
    • environmental-dna
    • mitochondrial-dna
    • teleo-primers
  • TRAMM project Ruedlingen experimental landslide dataset, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    A landslide testsite dataset related to pore water pressure perturbations on the stability of unsaturated silty sand slopes leading to the initiation and propagation of the shear...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • cces
    • landslide-testsite
    • landslides
    • pore-water
    • pressure-perturbations
    • tramm
  • Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland. Typical snow profile measurements and observations are included (temperature, density, grain size,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-density
    • snow-ice-temperature
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • weisfluhjoch
  • Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset (Model input, snow distribution and validation) for the precipitation scaling paper, which should be cited along with the data set citation.

    This data is useful for...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • alpine-precipitation
    • alpine3d
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • snow
    • snow-cover
    • snow-distribution
    • snow-hydrology
  • Wind tunnel measurement data of drifting snow and turbulent wind fluctuations

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data correspond to the experiments presented and discussed in a paper regarding the interaction between turbulent wind fluctuations and snow saltation mass-fluxes (Paterna,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • boundary-layer-winds
    • saltation
    • snow-cover
    • snow-depth
    • vertical-wind-motion
  • How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

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    Education, culture and sport

    We used five different atmospheric turbulence datasets from four test sites, with these sites showing differences in their topographical characteristics. We chose one typical...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • atmosphere
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • snow
    • stable-boundary-layer
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes