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472 datasets found

  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-failure
    • snow-micro-mechanics
  • Impulse response functions for nonlinear nonstationary and heterogeneous systems

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The R script IRFnnhs.R, which efficiently estimates impulse response functions for environmental systems that are nonlinear, nonstationary, or heterogeneous, based on their input...

    Last updated: April 28, 2022

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    • arma-noise
    • de-mixing
    • deconvolution
    • greens-function
    • impulse-response-function
    • irf
    • irfnnhsr
    • nonlinear-deconvolution
    • system-identification
    • time-series-analysis
    • transfer-function
  • Soil sealing Barcelona and Milan different territorial levels

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • 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

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    • 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

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    • disdrometer
    • hydrometeors
    • precipitation
    • raclets
    • visibility
  • Relationship between physical forest characteristics, visual attractiveness and perception of ecosystem services in urban forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • Saltation of cohesive granular materials

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • cohesion
    • saltation
    • sand
    • sediment
    • snow
    • wind
  • SnowMicroPen measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
  • Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • ZIP
    • complex-terrain
    • cosmo-wrf
    • high-resolution
    • meteoswiss
    • numerical-simulation
  • RoRCC

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "RoRCC" consists of simulation-based results on climate change impacts on Alpine RoR power production; it is based on 21 Swiss RoR power plants, with a total production...

    Last updated: August 11, 2022

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • design-discharge
    • environmental-flow
    • hydropower
    • run-of-river-power-plants
  • Preprocessing Antarctic Weather Station (AWS) data in python

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • intratrait

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across...

    Last updated: September 26, 2022

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    • CSV
    • climate-change
    • cold-adapted-plants
    • elevation-gradient
    • elevation-range
    • neighbour-interactions
    • plant-traits
  • Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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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    Education, culture and sport

    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
  • Grassland restoration: insects and insect traits

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Neff, F., Resch, M. C., Marty, A., Rolley, J. D., Schütz, M., Risch, A. C,...

    Last updated: November 8, 2022

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    • diversity
    • functional-diversity
    • functional-traits
    • grassland
    • insects
    • long-term-experiment
    • restoration
    • topsoil-removal
  • Electrodermal Activity (EDA) of Bi-cultural Visitors In Virtual Park Settings

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data on EDA measurements of visitors with different cultural backgrounds in virtual urban park settings. The parks are a Persian garden (Shiraz, Iran) and...

    Last updated: December 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • electrodermal-activity
    • landscape
    • place-attachment
    • sense-of-place
    • urban-ecology
  • Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial...

    Last updated: December 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • austin
    • driving-factors
    • land-dynamics
    • planning
    • urban-land-use
  • 3D_Snow_Models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types are...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • 3d-model
    • 3d-print
    • depth-hoar
    • new-snow
    • rounded-snow
    • snow
    • snow-cast
    • weak-layer
  • 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
  • Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Cities are socio-ecological systems that filter and select species, thus establishing unique species assemblages and biotic interactions. Urban ecosystems can host richer wild bee...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

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    • CSV
    • beekeeping
    • bettergardens
    • city4bees
    • gardens
    • honeybees
    • pollinator-experiment
    • resource-availability
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban-ecosystems
    • urbanization
    • wild-bees
    • zurich