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Field observations of snow instabilities
Education, culture and sport
This data set includes 589 snow profile observations including a rutschblock test, observations of signs of instability and an assessment of the local avalanche danger level, ma...
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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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Urban bird predation on artificial caterpillars
Education, culture and sport
We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich, and their peri-urban forests. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid w...
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Nuclear microsatellite genotypes of Pinus cembra
Education, culture and sport
The dataset contains individual genotypes at 11 nuclear microsatellite markers of samples of Swiss stone pine (*Pinus cembra*). Samples were collected in 12 natural and presumab...
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Environmental DNA Freshwater Namibia Namibia 2022
Education, culture and sport
Monitoring terrestrial mammals through eDNA in rivers of northern Namibia In 2022, we collected 20 water samples from 10 stations two rivers of Namibia. Samples were taken from ...
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Long-term recovery of above-and belowground interactions in restored grasslands
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains all data, on which the following publication below is based. Paper Citation: _Resch, M.C., Schütz, M., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U.,...
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Isone, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term...
Education, culture and sport
High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here compris...
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Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate
Education, culture and sport
This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover...
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Photogrammetric Drone Data Grüenbödeli
Education, culture and sport
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 Metashap...
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A high-resolution snow and hydrometeorological dataset for the Dischma...
Education, culture and sport
This repository contains data from the alpine Dischma watershed and its surroundings in eastern Switzerland and includes: (a) hourly hydrometeorological data with 100m spatial r...
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Field-based eDNA analysis to detect the threatened and elusive African manatee
Education, culture and sport
Data associated to the publication "Rapid field-based detection of a threatened and elusive species with environmental DNA and CRISPR-Dx" <br> Authors: <br> Flurin Leugger, M...
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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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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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SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018
Education, culture and sport
Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key (...
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RADAR Wind profiler Davos Wolfgang
Education, culture and sport
The RADAR wind profiler from Meteoswiss was installed at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) and measured from 2171 m above sea level to 11079 m, with a temporal reso...
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A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS
Education, culture and sport
This python code uses the Finite Element library FEniCS (via docker) to solve the one dimensional partial differential equations for heat and mass transfer in snow. The results ...
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Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2021
Education, culture and sport
Description: Fish environmental DNA data set collected in 2021 in the Calanques National Park The eDNA samples were collected in 2021 in two locations (Moyades, M−FPA and “Impér...
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Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)
Education, culture and sport
In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all...
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Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
A rule-based algorithm [(Schwieder et al., 2022)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112795) was used to produce annual maps for 2018–2021 of grassland-management events, i.e. m...
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Celerina, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the...
Education, culture and sport
High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here compris...
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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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Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche...
Education, culture and sport
The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural ...
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Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2019
Education, culture and sport
Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2019) In October 2019 we chose 15 sites from the 2019 EVHOE survey for eDNA sam...
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Simulation parameters and outputs for towards a physically and...
Education, culture and sport
In the associated study [1], evolution of randomly generated bi-continuous microstructures that resemble real snow microstructures has been investigated. The control of the ambi...
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Data set on snow instability
Education, culture and sport
These data on snow instability include three data subsets that were analyzed and the results published by Reuter and Schweizer (2018) who suggest a novel framework on how to des...