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Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment...
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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)
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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)
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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
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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?
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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,...
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements
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Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological paramete...
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Rockfall gallery testing Parde 2016
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Five full-scale field tests were conducted with concrete blocks weighting between 800 and 3200 kg being dropped onto the roof of a gallery structure made from reinforced concret...
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DISCHMEX - High-resolution WRF simulations in complex alpine terrain and...
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The data presented here corresponds to the publication "Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO-WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex te...
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Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015
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Two data sets obtained for snow farming projects (Fluela, Davos, CH and Martell, IT) in 2015. The data set contains for each site: * 10 cm GIS raster of snow depth calculated...
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Automatic detection of avalanches
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This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduc...