L'Institut fédéral de recherches sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage WSL

Effective, anisotropic elasticity tensor of snow, firn, and bubbly ice

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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...

Faktenblätter und Leitfaden für Hochwasserschätzmethoden in der Praxis

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(English version below) Ziel dieser Faktenblätter ist es Informationen zu den Schätzmethoden, Hinweise zur Parametrisierung und eine grobe Einschätzung der Güte der Resultate in...

Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980-2099 derived from the 50 member CRCM5-LE

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This dataset contains the Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980 - 2099 as stated in the paper "Climate change impacts on regional fire weather in heterogeneous...

Long-term biomass dynamics of temperate forests in Europe after cessation of management

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This dataset documents the analyses and the plot generation for the manuscript Long-term biomass dynamics in temperate forests in Europe after cessation of management. We...

Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland

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A rule-based algorithm (Schwieder et al., 2022) was used to produce annual maps for 2018–2021 of grassland-management events, i.e....

Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

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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...

Teaser videos Swiss landscapes under climate change

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Short videos showing scenarios of potential landscape development in a 4°C warmer climate for a Swiss mountain region and a region on the Swiss Plateau. The videos are in German or...

Resurveyed vegetation releves of beech forests in the Swiss Jura Mountains

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This dataset comprised 254 historical (1937 – 1948) and resurveyed (2019 – 2022) vegetation relevés of beech-dominated forests sites in the Swiss Jura mountains. The data contains...

Soil property maps for the Swiss forest

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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...

Pfynwald 2019 - Dendrochronological and tree-ring isotope dataset

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Data from a 17-year-long irrigation experiment (Pfynwald, Switzerland) in a naturally dry forest dominated by 100-year-old pine trees (Pinus sylvestris). This dataset includes...

Information on soil based on the soil dependency of the FOEN red list species

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

Paper Citation: Frey B., Maurer C., Schneider K. (2023) Informationen zum Boden anhand der...

snowBedFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian-Lagrangian solver for modelling snow transport

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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...

High resolution land use forecasts for Switzerland in the 21st century

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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...

Photogrammetric Drone Data Latschuelfurgga

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To map and assess snow depth on different dates, 9 flights were conducted in the winter season of 2020/21 at the Latschüelfurgga in Davos. The data was captured with a Sony RX1R II...

Photogrammetric Drone Data Grüenbödeli

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We conducted various drone flights at Grüenbödeli near Davos with the Sony RX1R II mounted on a Wingtra drone during 2020/21/22. The data was processed with the Agisoft Metashape...

COSMO-WRF Dataset for Swiss Alps Simulations in Gray-Zone Resolution

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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...

WFJ2: Snow measurements from the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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This dataset provides HS, TSS and TS50, TS100, TS150 at the station WFJ2 situated on the Weisfluhjoch research site (2536 m asl). It has been created from merging ENET and IMIS...

Data on multi-year drought impacts on European beech in northern Switzerland

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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...

Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

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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...

Root-traits

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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...