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Snow depth mapping by airplane photogrammetry (2017 - ongoing)
Education, culture and sport
The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 0.5 m derived from images of the survey camera Vexcel Ultracam mounted on a piloted airplane. Image acqui...
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MadCrypto – Bryophyte and macrolichen diversity in laurel forests of Madeira
Education, culture and sport
This dataset includes species lists of bryophytes and macrolichens (presence/absence) sampled on the forest floor and on trees in disturbed and undisturbed plots along elevation...
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Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency
Education, culture and sport
The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain...
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Nutrient addition experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
Background information The availability of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is considered to be a major factor limiting growth and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems global...
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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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Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories...
Education, culture and sport
Summary This data set contains Python programming code and modeled data discussed in a related research article. We developed a simple isotope model to study the drivers of th...
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Stability tests, avalanche observations, Switzerland, Norway
Education, culture and sport
Observational data used to quantitatively describe the key elements describing avalanche danger: snowpack stability, the frequency distribution of snowpack stability, and avalan...
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Data set of: Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to measure,...
Education, culture and sport
The following two tables contain information about the data sources of the values reported in Table 1 and 2 in the paper “Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to mea...
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Nationalpark, 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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Monitoring data sets of alpine photovoltaic power-plants
Education, culture and sport
On this repository you can find the monitoring data of the 3 PV power-plants analysed in the article _"Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine ar...
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Sensitivity of modeled snow instability
Education, culture and sport
We investigated the sensitivity of modeled snow instability to meteorological input data using SNOWPACK. We therefore used input data from the automatic weather station at the W...
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Life at chilly temperatures - A collection of microorganisms from extreme habitats
Education, culture and sport
The cold habitats of the Swiss Alps and the Arctic are undergoing change and are at risk of disappearing completely or partially in the future. Along with them, a poorly known d...
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FSM2trans snowpack simulations with HICAR input
Education, culture and sport
DESCRIPTION The dataset is used to run snowpack simulations with various forcing data at different resolutions with the Flexible Snow Model (FSM2oshd). A dynamical downscaling ...
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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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WFJ_DailySMP - High-Resolution Snow Stratigraphy at Weissfluhjoch -- Davos...
Education, culture and sport
The WFJ_DailySMP dataset contains daily SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements conducted throughout the winter seasons 2015-2025 (ongoing) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos, Sw...
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Flow and tracer data for overland flow and topsoil interflow during rainfall...
Education, culture and sport
Description: This dataset comprises the time series of overland flow (OF) and topsoil interflow (TIF) discharge, and tracer concentrations during artificial rainfall simulatio...
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Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland at 2090 m a.s.l.
Education, culture and sport
Background information The Stillberg ecological treeline research site is located in the transition zone between the relatively humid climate of the Northern Alps and the conti...
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Meteorological Time Series Aligned with Projected Temperature Changes
Education, culture and sport
This dataset provides 50 years of seasonal synthetic hourly time series for five meteorological variables: incoming shortwave radiation, total precipitation, relative humidity, ...
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Grassland restoration: insects and insect traits
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains all data, on which the following publication below is based. **Paper Citation**: Neff, F., Resch, M. C., Marty, A., Rolley, J. D., Schütz, M., Risch, A. ...
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History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1850
Education, culture and sport
Naturally, large parts of the Swiss Plateau are characterised by wetlands and meandering rivers. That this is no longer the case today is the result of centuries of efforts to o...
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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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Backward Trajectories
Education, culture and sport
Backward trajectories were calculated from two positions: Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.85361, LAT: 46.83551) and Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.80646 LAT: 46.83304) for the time period Februar...
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Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains the output and reference data published in the paper "Automated snow avalanche release area delineation - validation of existing algorithms and proposition...
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Data on interaction diversity in urban gardens
Education, culture and sport
The data supports the paper "Local and landscape factors shape alpha and beta trophic interaction diversity in urban gardens". It provides: (1) the host-natural enemy interacti...
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Automated detection of invasive alien plants along highways
Education, culture and sport
Transport infrastructure such as **highways** are important corridors for the spread of invasive species. In this project, an automated detection and mapping of **two invasive a...