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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements
Education, culture and sport
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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DISCHMEX - High-resolution WRF simulations in complex alpine terrain and...
Education, culture and sport
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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Rockfall gallery testing Parde 2016
Education, culture and sport
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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Automatic detection of avalanches
Education, culture and sport
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...
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Snowfarming data set Davos and Martell 2015
Education, culture and sport
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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Dataset for OGRS 2018 publication
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains the road and plot data used for the geospatial analysis example showcased in "Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal", a ...
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Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget
Education, culture and sport
This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees an...
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Fiber Bundle Model for snow failure and concurrent Acoustic Emissions
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains modeled and experimental results for laboratory snow failure experiments and the concurrent acoustic emissions signatures for different loading rates. For ...
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From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions. Book of Abstracts
Education, culture and sport
Book of abstracts from the virtual conference "From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions" Cities and urban regions are among the most dynamic land-use systems in the...
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Replication files for "Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and...
Education, culture and sport
Introduction The ZIP file contains all data and code to replicate the analyses reported in the following paper. Reber, U., Fischer, M., Ingold, K., Kienast, F., Hersperger, A...
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Sentinel-2 imagery of Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
We processed Sentinel-2 images from 2017 to 2023 for Switzerland with the Software FORCE (Frantz 2019). The respective parameter files can be found here: [Github](https://githu...
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Sentinel-2 time series of Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
We processed Sentinel-2 image time series from 2017 to 2023 for Switzerland with the Software FORCE (Frantz 2019) on the basis of [Sentinel-2 images](https://envidat.ch/#/metada...
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Latent Heat Flux over Snow
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains three case studies where are compared the latent heat flux calculated using the Eddy Covariance (EC) method, the Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) and...