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European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe
Education, culture and sport
The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientis...
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Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2021 in the Erlenbach Catchment
Education, culture and sport
The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2021 in the Erlenbach catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and st...
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Tectonic and climatic controls on plant biodiversity in the Hengduan Mountains China
Education, culture and sport
This dataset includes geomorphic predictors and plant biodiversity patterns in the Hengduan Mountains, published in the Geological Society of London special volume: Asian Geodyn...
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Water isotope signatures in Swiss forest ecosystems in 2021 and 2022
Education, culture and sport
The isotope composition of different forest water pools was analyzed at 10 sites of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research programme in 2021 and 2022. The sampling was done dur...
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Tree species map of Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
Dominant tree species map of Switzerland We created a tree species map of Switzerland for the dominant tree species in the forested areas. The spatial resolution of the map is...
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Community structure, life-history traits and performance traits of urban...
Education, culture and sport
Background Urban ecosystems are associated with socio-ecological conditions that can filter and promote taxa. However, the strength of the effect of ecological filtering on bio...
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Soil and stem xylem water isotope data from two pan-European sampling campaigns
Education, culture and sport
Here, we present a comprehensive isotope dataset of soil and stem xylem water collected during two pan-European sampling campaigns in spring and summer 2023. The dataset include...
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10 years of intra-annual carbon isotopes in tree rings from 3 conifer species
Education, culture and sport
The data consists of a collection of environmental data, tree-ring width and intra-annual δ13C measurements of tree rings of three conifer species (Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies...
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Experts survey protective forest and combined extremes in Val Mesolcina
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains the results of a case study analysing the potential impacts of a compound meteorological extreme event on the protective forest in the Val Mesolcina. These...
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Overland and topsoil interflow time series from the Studibach - summer 2022
Education, culture and sport
The dataset comprises the time series of overland flow (OF) and topsoil interflow (TIF) discharges from 14 small runoff plots (1 x 3 m) over 27 rainfall events in 2022 across th...
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Urban birds point counts data
Education, culture and sport
The study area included the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich. The sampling design reflected four main city districts related to four categories of tree cover (Figure 1): 1) in...
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Steigerwald_Artificial_Dendrotelms
Education, culture and sport
This dataset comprises environmental and insect larval data from 24 artificial dendrotelms (water-filled tree holes) created in beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) in six old-growth f...
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Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download with SwissGeoDownloader
Education, culture and sport
In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. The plugin ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’, which is available for...
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Seilaplan Tutorial: Merge DTM tiles
Education, culture and sport
In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. In this tutorial video, we show how to merge multiple DTM...
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Seilaplan Tutorial: Load WMS layers as background maps
Education, culture and sport
In order to digitally plan a cable line using the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’, maps with various background information are helpful. In this tutorial we show you how to obtain maps ...
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GEM2: Meteorological and snow station at Gemsstock (3021 m asl), Canton Uri,...
Education, culture and sport
Meteorological station at Gemstock (3021 m asl) in Canton Uri. The station includes in/out LW/SW and a snow height sensor. Data from this station is managed by the permos.ch pr...
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Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data
Education, culture and sport
This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17....
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Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014
Education, culture and sport
Overview The CH2014-Impacts initiative is a concerted national effort to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively, drawing on the scientific resources ...
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Bats in beaver systems
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains processed bat acoustic data collected to evaluate the ecological impacts of beaver-engineered ponds on bat species richness, activity, and feeding activity...
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Forest Canopy Layer
Education, culture and sport
This dataset provides a LiDAR-based classification of the forest canopy layer for selected Swiss cantons. Combining an area-based and tree-centred approach, forest areas are cat...
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Soil measurements of Seewer Berg and Davos
Education, culture and sport
The dataset contains measured values of soil liquid water content, matric potential, and soil texture of 40 soil samples in Davos, Switzerland. The measurements were used for de...
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CHELSAcerra-daily
Education, culture and sport
CHELSA is a mechanistic downscaling model that links large-scale atmospheric conditions with local topographic factors to produce very high-resolution climate data. It includes ...
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Swiss electricity system modeling -- HV grid - hydropower topology and...
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains several useful components for **Swiss Electricity system modeling**: 1. **High-voltage Swiss grid**: 2019 snapshot of the high-voltage (>150kV) grid compos...
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Playground biodiversity and preschool children well-being
Education, culture and sport
This repository contains data related to an interdisciplinary study on playgrounds, looking at both playground vegetation and the well-being of pre-school children using those p...
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SwissRad10 Hourly light availability maps at 10 m resolution over Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
The SwissRad10 dataset contains light availability maps at 10 m and hourly resolution across an entire annual cycle with wall-to-wall coverage across the whole of Switzerland. ...