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Multiple realizations of daily snow water equivalent, surface water input...
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The dataset contains for three variables (snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation) 50 realizations of current and future climate periods for two time...
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gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions...
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Although species range may be obtained using expert maps or modeling methods, expert data is often species-limited and statistical models need more technical expertise as well a...
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UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers
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UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in th...
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Vegetation Height Model NFI
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Countrywide **vegetation height models (VHM)** were generated for Switzerland based on **stereo aerial images**, acquired by the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. From th...
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Vegetation Height Model LiDAR NFI
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Countrywide **vegetation height models (VHM)** were generated for Switzerland based on LiDAR data acquired in the framework of the **swissSURFACE3D** campaign (swisstopo). To d...
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Angle of repose experiments with natural and spherical snow
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Angle of repose experiments were performed with different snow types at temperatures between -2 and -40°C. They were used to examine granular snow dynamics on the grain-scale wi...
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Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and...
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This dataset contains four years of daily measurements of the natural isotopic composition (2H, 18O) of precipitation and stream water at the Alp catchment (area 47 km2) in Cent...
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Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from...
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Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation an...
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High resolution climate data for Europe
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High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present downscaled climate data for the CO...
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Sequential Wind-Doppler LiDAR wind profile measurements on the Gotthard pass...
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This data include wind speeds, wind directions, turbulence, temperature, pressure and humidity data of 10 LiDAR locations along a transect in the Gotthard wind park taken in dur...
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Data reliability study: avalanche size estimates and outlines
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This dataset contains the data used and collected to investigate the reliability of avalanche size estimates and avalanche outlines (see related publications). Namely this is ...
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Debris flow observation at Illgraben 2024: Event Data 15 June / 21 June
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This dataset contains measurements from two debris flows recorded in 2024 at the Illgraben debris-flow observatory in Switzerland. The first debris flow was recorded on 15 June ...
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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...
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Alpine3D Climate Data
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Alpine3D (A3D) runs between 1950 and 2022 in hourly resolution. Simulations are run for every year separately (year n = Sept. n-1 to Aug. n), starting again with no snow every 1...
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Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses
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Dataset supporting the paper "Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses", published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The dataset refers to...
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Processed permafrost borehole data (2394 m asl), Fluelapass A, Switzerland
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Processed ground temperature measurements at the Fluelapass permafrost borehole A (FLU_0102) in canton Graubunden, Switzerland. The borehole is located at 2394 m asl on a modera...
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Nutrient addition experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland
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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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Environmental DNA Freshwater Namibia Namibia 2022
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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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Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2021
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Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2021) At the end of October and the beginning of November 2021, we selected 18...
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Environmental DNA Freshwater Senegal Casamance 2018
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Monitoring fish diversity through eDNA metabarcoding along the Casamance river In 2018, water samples were collected in 13 locations along the Casamance in Senegal. Samples wer...
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Environmental DNA Freshwater Colombia Magdalena 2022
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Monitoring of vertebrates of the lower Magdalena river through eDNA metabarcoding The Magdalena River basin harbors a large biodiversity of vertebrates, with numerous endemic s...
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Robot-aided measurement of insect diversity on vegetation using environmental DNA
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Traditional methods of biodiversity monitoring are often logistically challenging, time-consuming, require experienced experts on species identification and sometimes include de...
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Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow...
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For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered ...
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Seilaplan Tutorial: Merge DTM tiles
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In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. In this tutorial video, we show how to merge multiple DTM...
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Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download from swisstopo website
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In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. As an alternative to using the ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’ plu...