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Carabid beetles in forests
Education, culture and sport
Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types. Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract 20...
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TRAMM project Ruedlingen experimental landslide dataset, Switzerland
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 shea...
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Long-term treeline research dataset at Stillberg, Davos
Education, culture and sport
Important This EnviDat entry is outdated. The most recent, usable version of the data can be found under the new EnviDat entry "Long-term afforestation experiment at the Alpine...
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Manual bi-weekly snow profiles from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland
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 si...
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UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH
Education, culture and sport
This snow depth map was generated 14 January 2015, close to peak of winter accumulation, applying Unmanned Aerial System digital surface models with a spatial resolution of 10 c...
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Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment...
Education, culture and sport
To study the performance of mature Scots pine (_Pinus sylvestris_ L.) under chronic drought conditions in comparison to their immediate physiological response to drought release...
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Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps (1969/1970 - 2014/2015)
Education, culture and sport
During the last 45 years, about 100 people lost their lives in avalanches in the European Alps each year. Avalanche fatalities in settlements and on transportation corridors hav...
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Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)
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 dis...
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Wind tunnel measurement data of drifting snow and turbulent wind fluctuations
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, ...
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How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?
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 al...
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DISCHMEX - Impact of extreme land-surface heterogeneity on micrometeorology...
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains eddy-covariance measurements in the ablation period of 2014-2016. Measurements were taken from two turbulence towers over a long-lasting snow patch, which ...
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Experiments on stable water isotopes, snow metamorphism, and advection
Education, culture and sport
Stable water isotopes (δ18O) obtained from snow and ice samples of polar regions are used to reconstruct past climate variability, but heat and mass transport processes can affe...
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Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP
Education, culture and sport
This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP ...
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Calibration data for empirical mortality models of 18 European tree species
Education, culture and sport
The dataset comprises > 90 000 records from inventories in 54 strict forest reserves in [Switzerland](https://www.wsl.ch/de/wald/biodiversitaet-naturschutz-urwald/naturwaldreser...
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DISCHMEX - High-resolution daily snow ablation rates in an Alpine environment
Education, culture and sport
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 ...
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Number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland since 1936-1937
Education, culture and sport
Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland. The data...
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Number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland since 1937
Education, culture and sport
Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per **calendar year** in Switzerland. The data...
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Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1995-1996
Education, culture and sport
Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This data collection contains information concerning all accidents by snow avalanches causing at least one fatality in Sw...
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Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014
Education, culture and sport
In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly c...
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LWF-Tea bag sites
Education, culture and sport
Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for the transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in the decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as ...
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Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)
Education, culture and sport
Polygons of wet snow avalanches in the Davos area, as documented by the Swiss avalanche warning service. The georeferenced outlines of the avalanches contain both the release as...
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Induced Rockfall Dataset (Small Rock Experimental Campaign), Tschamut,...
Education, culture and sport
Dataset of an experimental campaign of induced rockfall in Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland. The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophot...
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Ecosystem coupling and multifunctionality - exclosure experiment
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based. Paper Citation: > Risch AC, Ochoa-Hueso R, van der Putten WH, Bump JK, Busse MD, Frey B, Gwia...
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Soil respiration - exclosure experiment
Education, culture and sport
Location of data collection The Swiss National Park (SNP) is located in the southeastern part of Switzerland, and covers an area of 170 km2, 50 km2 of which is forested, 33 km2 ...
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Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains the data used in the publication by Techel et al., 2018 _Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts - a case study in the European Alps_ (Nat Haz ...