RoRCC

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The dataset "RoRCC" consists of simulation-based results on climate change impacts on Alpine RoR power production; it is based on 21 Swiss RoR power plants, with a total product...

Disdrometer Data Laret

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A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was used to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The instrument can classify eight different...

Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat...

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This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the environme...

Base cation dynamics in an Oriental beech forest

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Throughfall, litterflow and soil solution were sampled during one whole year under five Oriental beech trees in a mixed Hyrcanian beech forest. The amounts of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ and...

Saltation of cohesive granular materials

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The wind-driven saltation of sand and snow shapes dunes and ripples, generates dust emission, and erodes the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. Here, we use a model based on th...

IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

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The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created duri...

High resolution monthly precipitation and temperature timeseries for the peri...

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Predicting future climatic conditions at high spatial resolution is essential for many applications in science. Here we present data for monthly time series of precipitation and...

Number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland since 193...

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This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland. The data set commences with the beginning of the hydrological ye...

Data set of: Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to measure, exp...

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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...

Cropland and grassland map of Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data

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We developed a map of cropland and grassland allocation for Switzerland based on several indices dominantly derived from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery captured over multiple grow...

Jussy, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term F...

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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...

Modeling snow failure with DEM

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This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in ...

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Laboratory experiments are presented on the phase change at the surface of sodium chloride – water mixtures at temperatures between 259 K and 240 K. High selectivity to the uppe...

Weather Station Klosters

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A weather station (Lufft WS600) measured meteorological parameters at Klosters (LON: 9.880413, LAT: 46.869019). Detailed information on the specifications can be found [here](ht...

Isone, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term F...

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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...

Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014

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Overview The CH2014-Impacts initiative is a concerted national effort to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively, drawing on the scientific resources ...

FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

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Overview High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are pre...

Vegetation Height Model NFI

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A national vegetation height model was calculated for Switzerland using digital aerial images. We used the stereo aerial images acquired by the Federal Office of Topography swis...

HYDROpot_integral

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A spatial dataset and tool to simultaneously assess hydropower potential and ecological potential of the Swiss river network (Version 2016) Introduction The steadily growing ...

Snow Drift Station - Flowcapt

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The FlowCapt is an ultra-robust instrument measuring solid particle acoustic mass - flux intensities (g m‾ ² s‾ ¹) and wind speeds (m s‾ ¹). It ...

Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp

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Overview We present GROUNDEYE, a new model of radiative transfer over mountainous terrain, which considers for the first time the forward scattering properties of snow. Embedde...

Number of natural hazard fatalities per year in Switzerland since 1946

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This dataset contains the number of fatalities due to flood, debris flow, landslide, rockfall, windstorm, lightning, ice avalanche, earthquake and other processes like roof aval...

Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

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This data set includes 52 years of hydrometeorological measurements from small (first-order) catchments in the pre-alpine valley Alptal. Here we provide daily mean values; value...

High resolution sea ice surface topography from the SIPEX-2 expedition, East ...

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This dataset comprises of a post-processed set of terrestrial laser scans (TLS’s) of Antarctic sea ice obtained during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment-2 (SIPEX-2, h...

Impulse response functions for nonlinear nonstationary and heterogeneous systems

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The R script IRFnnhs.R, which efficiently estimates impulse response functions for environmental systems that are nonlinear, nonstationary, or heterogeneous, based on their inpu...