maintainer: Leo Gallus Bont

en: digital-elevation-model digital-planning cable-yarding swiss-geodata open-source qgis-plugin swiss-geo-downloader geoinformation-system seilaplan

en: Herunterladen des DHM mit SwissGeoDownloader

en: View video on youtube!

en:
In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. The plugin ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’, which is available for the open source geoinformation software QGIS, allows freely available Swiss geodata to be downloaded and displayed directly within QGIS. It was developed in 2021 by Patricia Moll in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. In this tutorial we describe how to download the high accuracy elevation model ‘swissALTI3D’ with the help of the ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’ and how to use it for digital planning of a cable line with the plugin ‘Seilaplan’. Please note that the tutorial language is German!

Link to the Swiss Geo Downloader: https://pimoll.github.io/swissgeodownloader

Link to Seilaplan website: https://seilaplan.wsl.ch

*********************

Für die Verwendung des QGIS Plugins Seilaplan zur digitalen Seillinienplanung ist ein digitales Höhenmodell (DHM) nötig. Das Plugin Swiss Geo Downloader, welches für das Open Source Geoinformationssystem QGIS zur Verfügung steht, ermöglicht frei verfügbare Schweizer Geodaten direkt innerhalb von QGIS herunterzuladen und anzuzeigen. Es wurde 2021 von Patricia Moll in Zusammenarbeit mit der eidgenössischen Forschungsanstalt Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL entwickelt. In diesem Tutorial beschreiben wir, wie man mit Hilfe des Swiss Geo Downloaders das hochgenaue Höhenmodell swissALTI3D herunterladen und für die Seillinienplanung mit dem Plugin Seilaplan verwenden kann.

Link zum Swiss Geo Downloader: https://pimoll.github.io/swissgeodownloader

Link zur Seilaplan-Webseite: https://seilaplan.wsl.ch

cable-yarding

display_name: cable-yarding

digital-elevation-model

display_name: digital-elevation-model

digital-planning

display_name: digital-planning

geoinformation-system

display_name: geoinformation-system

open-source

display_name: open-source

qgis-plugin

display_name: qgis-plugin

seilaplan

display_name: seilaplan

swiss-geo-downloader

display_name: swiss-geo-downloader

swiss-geodata

display_name: swiss-geodata

en: Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download with SwissGeoDownloader


maintainer: Giulia Mazzotti

en: forest-structure forest-snow snow-distribution snow-modelling snow-energy-balance

state: active

type: dataset

en: Canopy data

en: Includes all canopy structure metrics computed at all surveyed locations

format: XLS

en: Coordinates data

en: Includes coordinate information of each surveyed point (7 x 276 = 1932 forest points, 2 open areas)

en: Snow depth data open sites

en: Contains all snow detph data accquired at open sites nearby the forest stands during the same period.

en: Grid point nomenclature

en: The grid structure of each forest site and the respective nomenclature applied to label individual points within each grid are outlined here.  Each point marks the location of snow depth measurements and co-located canopy structure parameters.

en: Snow depth data forest sites

en: Contains all snow depth data acquired at all forest sites during winters 2012/13, 2013714 and 2014/15.

en: Meteo data to drive FSM2 model

media_type: application/zip

en: Includes meteorological driving data used to run the forest snow model FSM2, processed and parsed in text files that match the format required by FSM2. Separate files are available for each field area (Laret, Drusatscha and Ischlag) and season (2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15). Each file includes data for the period from October 1st to May 31st at hourly resolution.

format: ZIP

mimetype: application/zip

en:
This dataset contains all snow, canopy and meteorological data presented and used in the publication: Mazzotti, G., Essery, R., Moeser, D. & Jonas T. (2020) 'Resolving spatial variability of forest snow using an energy-balance model with a 1-layer canopy'. Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026129.
This publication must be cited when using this dataset.

forest-snow

display_name: forest-snow

forest-structure

display_name: forest-structure

snow-distribution

display_name: snow-distribution

snow-energy-balance

display_name: snow-energy-balance

snow-modelling

display_name: snow-modelling

educ

fr: Éducation, culture et sport

de: Bildung, Kultur und Sport

en: Education, culture and sport

it: Istruzione, cultura e sport

envidat

fr: EnviDat: le portail de données environnementales

de: EnviDat: das Umwelt-Datenportal

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

it: EnviDat: il portale dei dati ambientali

fr: EnviDat est le portail de données du WSL; il offre un accès uniformisé et réglementé aux données de surveillance et de recherche en matière d’environnement. Ce portail est capable d’héberger et de publier des ensembles de données précieuses et uniques, qui sont partagées aux quatre coins de la planète. Ce faisant, EnviDat favorise la recherche et contribue à l’avancement des sciences environnementales.

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

de: EnviDat ist das Datenportal der WSL für einen einheitlichen und verwalteten Zugang zu Umweltdaten aus Monitoring- und Forschungsprojekten. Auf dem Portal können Datensätze gehostet und veröffentlicht werden. Durch die weltweite Bereitstellung einzigartiger und wertvoller Datensätze leistet EnviDat einen Beitrag zur Forschung im Bereich der Umweltwissenschaften.

it: EnviDat è il portale dati del WSL che fornisce un accesso unificato e gestito ai dati di monitoraggio ambientale e di ricerca. Il portale ha la capacità di ospitare e pubblicare serie di dati preziosi e unici che vengono condivisi in tutto il mondo. Così facendo, EnviDat promuove la ricerca e contribuisce al progresso della scienza ambientale.

political_level: other

wsl

capacity: public

type: organization

approval_status: approved

key: guid

key: uri

value: Envidat Harvester

en: Snow depth, canopy structure and meterorological datasets from the Davos area, Switzerland, Winters 2012/13-2014/15, used for high-resolution forest snow modelling


lwf-alptal-long-term-research-site

title_for_slug: lwf-alptal-long-term-research-site

en: forest lwf meteorological-data plot swiss-forest-lab infrastructure meteorological-measurements

en: LWF plot Alptal

en: Photo: Flurin Sutter, 2013

format: SERVICE

en: Alpthal Meteorological Data LWF

en: LWF plot Alptal Photo: P.Waldner

en:
![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/49729a45-f5bf-4bc0-afdd-77123894d3bb/resource/aa505753-198c-49dc-a33e-c4c8e4fcb611/download/lwf_alptal.jpg "LWF Alptal")

LWF plot Alptal

- Community: Alpthal / canton SZ
- Date of installation: 31 May 1995
- Size of the plot: 0.6 ha
- Altitude: 1149-1170 m
- Mean slope: 23%
- Geology (in German): Nordpenninikum; obere Kreide-unteres Eozän, Wägitaler Flysch
- Soil types (WSL) : Mollic Gleysols, Gleyic Cambisols
- Woodland association after EK72: 49: Equiseto-Abietetum
- Main tree species: Picea abies
- Management system: high forest
- Silvicultural system: selection
- Top-height diameter (quadratic average diameter of the 100 thickest trees per ha): 39.3 cm
- Number of trees BHD >= 12 cm (2011): 321
- Maximum tree age: Picea abies 180-230 yr

More Information: https://www.wsl.ch/en/forest/forest-development-and-monitoring/long-term-forest-ecosystem-research-lwf/sites/alptal.html

forest

display_name: forest

infrastructure

display_name: infrastructure

lwf

display_name: lwf

meteorological-data

display_name: meteorological-data

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

plot

display_name: plot

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: LWF Alptal long-term research site


maintainer: EnviDat Support

en: eddy-covariance-measurements turbulence micro-rain-radar meteorological-data blowing-snow antarctica drifting-snow mass-flux large-eddy-simulations

en: Measurement data from snow particle counter at MRR site

en: Near-surface observations of drifting snow from a Snow Particle Counter (SPC) installed at the location of the Micro Rain Radar.

en: Readme

media_type: text/plain

en: Meta data

format: TXT

en: Source code of the large-eddy simulations coupled with a Lagrangian stochastic model (LES-LSM), available on GitLab.

en: Measurement data from Micro Rain Radar (MRR)

en: Remote sensing data of blowing snow from a Micro Rain Radar (MRR).

en: Simulation data for a situation with negligible snow transport

en: Results from two LES-LSM simulations called NoDrift_1 and NoDrift_2, which reproduce the conditions observed at the S17 site on 12th January 2019, 05:40 to 05:50 UTC.

en: Measurement data from micro-meteorological station

en: Automatic in-situ measurements of micro-meteorology and snow transport

en: Simulation data for a situation with significant snow transport

en: Data from two LES-LSM simulations called Drift_1 and Drift_2, which reproduce the conditions observed at the S17 site on 11th January 2019, 00:40 to 00:50 UTC.

en:
This dataset contains measurement and simulation data. The measurements characterize the standard meteorology, turbulence, and snow transport at the S17 site near Syowa Station in East Antarctica during an expedition in austral summer 2018/2019. Large-eddy simulations with sublimating particles provide additional insight into the latent and sensible heat exchange between snow and air in two example situations observed at the S17 site.

A part of the measurement data was recorded by an automatic measurement station from 10th January 2019 to 26th January 2019. This measurement station was equipped with standard meteorological sensors, a three-dimensional ultrasonic anemometer, an open-path infrared gas analyzer, a snow particle counter, an infrared radiometer for measurements of the surface temperature, and a sonic ranging sensor measuring changes in snow surface elevation.

At a horizontal distance of approximately 500 m, a Micro Rain Radar (MRR) was installed in a tilted configuration with an elevation angle of 7° for remote sensing of blowing snow between 25th December 2018 and 24th January 2019. In addition, near-surface in-situ measurements of snow transport were performed at the location of the MRR by deploying a snow particle counter from 27th December 2018 to 24th January 2019.

The simulations cover a 18 x 18 x 6 m³ domain and reproduce the steady-state conditions during a 10-min interval with significant snow transport and another 10-min interval with negligible snow transport. We provide the model source code and the post-processed simulation data, i.e., horizontally averaged quantities as a function of height and time.

antarctica

display_name: antarctica

blowing-snow

display_name: blowing-snow

drifting-snow

display_name: drifting-snow

eddy-covariance-measurements

display_name: eddy-covariance-measurements

large-eddy-simulations

display_name: large-eddy-simulations

mass-flux

display_name: mass-flux

micro-rain-radar

display_name: micro-rain-radar

turbulence

display_name: turbulence

en: Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019


en: forest ecology biodiversity radiation-transfer climate-change microclimate statistical-interpolation

en: Predicted microclimate topsoil temperatures at 5 cm below ground. 10 m spatial resolution raster files are provided for mean daily minimum (tmin), mean (tmean) and maximum (tmax) temperatures during each month from April (04) to October (10) over the period between 2012 to 2021.

en: Predicted microclimate air temperatures at 100 cm above ground. 10 m spatial resolution raster files are provided for mean daily minimum (tmin), mean (tmean) and maximum (tmax) temperatures during each month from April (04) to October (10) over the period between 2012 to 2021.

en: Predicted microclimate air temperatures at 5 cm above ground. 10 m spatial resolution raster files are provided for mean daily minimum (tmin), mean (tmean) and maximum (tmax) temperatures during each month from April (04) to October (10) over the period between 2012 to 2021.

en: Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand climate-change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Here we combine a national network of microclimate temperature measurements with a novel radiative transfer model to map monthly minimum, mean and maximum temperatures during the vegetation period at a 10 meter spatial resolution across Switzerland. The temperature measurements took place in 107 sampling plots distributed across different habitat types, with 62 plots in forests, 22 below trees outside forests, and 23 in open grasslands. In each plot we measured temperature in the topsoil (-5cm), as well as in the air at 5cm and 100cm height above ground. Spatial interpolation was achieved by using a hybrid approach based on linear mixed effects models with input from detailed radiation estimates that account for topographic and vegetation shading, as well as other predictor variables related to the macroclimate, topography and vegetation height. Our data reveals strong horizontal and vertical variability in microclimate temperature, particularly for maximum temperatures at 5 cm above the ground and within the topsoil. Compared to macroclimate conditions as measured by weather stations outside forests, diurnal air and topsoil temperature ranges inside forests were reduced by up to 3.0 and 7.8 °C, respectively, while below trees outside forests, e.g. in hedges and below solitary trees, this buffering effect was 1.8 and 7.2 °C. We also found that in open grasslands, maximum temperatures at 5 cm above ground are on average 3.4 °C warmer than that of macroclimate, suggesting that in such habitats heat exposure close to the ground is often underestimated when using macroclimatic data. After accounting for macroclimate effects, microclimate patterns were primarily driven by radiation, with particularly strong effects on maximum temperatures. Results from spatial block cross-validation revealed predictive accuracies as measured by RSME’s ranging from 1.18 to 3.43 °C, with minimum temperatures generally being predicted more accurately than maximum temperatures. The microclimate maps presented here enable a more biologically relevant perspective when analysing climate-species interactions, which is expected to lead to a better understanding of biotic and ecosystem responses to climate and land use change.

biodiversity

display_name: biodiversity

climate-change

display_name: climate-change

ecology

display_name: ecology

microclimate

display_name: microclimate

radiation-transfer

display_name: radiation-transfer

statistical-interpolation

display_name: statistical-interpolation

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland


en: governance spatial-development spatial-planning urban-regions strategic-spatial-planning land-use

media_type: application/pdf

en: This dataset is composed of an interview guide used to conduct 43 in-depth, qualitative, and in-person interviews with planning experts, academics and practitioners, in 14 European urban regions and the corresponding interview transcripts. These interviews were conducted in the selected urban regions between March and September 2016. They were first digitally recorded and later fully transcribed (verbatim).

format: PDF

en: Guiding document for the interview transcripts (Metadata of the written transcripts)

en: This is a guiding document supporting the dataset Interview guide and transcripts (CONCUR Aim 2 on Governance).

en: This dataset is composed of an interview guide used to conduct 43 in-depth, qualitative, and in-person interviews with planning experts, academics and practitioners, in 14 European urban regions and the corresponding interview transcripts (verbatim). These interviews were conducted in the selected urban regions between March and September 2016. They were first digitally recorded and later thoroughly transcribed.

governance

display_name: governance

land-use

display_name: land-use

spatial-development

display_name: spatial-development

spatial-planning

display_name: spatial-planning

strategic-spatial-planning

display_name: strategic-spatial-planning

urban-regions

display_name: urban-regions


en: damaging-agents damage-causes forest-condition long-term-forest-ecosystem-research forest-vitality icp-forests swiss-forest-lab crown-condition

en: Data Request

en:
Annual Crown Condition Assessment including mortality and removal and Damage Causse Assessment on the Sanasilva-Sites and LWF plots.

 Purpose:

To assess tree and forest health and its changes and to assess occurence and extent of diseases

 Manual Citation:

 * Matthias Dobbertin, Christian Hug, Andreas Schwyzer, Serge Borer, Hanna Schmalz, 2016: Aufnahmeanleitung Kronenansprachen auf den Sanasilva- und den LWF-Flächen (Version 10). Sanasilva Inventur und Langfristige Waldökosystem-Forschung, Birmensdorf, 86 S. [>>>](https://www.wsl.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/WSL/Wald/Waldentwicklung_Monitoring/LWF/Sanasilva/ssi_anleitung_v10_extern.pdf)

 * Eichhorn J, Roskams P, Potocic N, Timmermann V, Ferretti M, Mues V, Szepesi A, Durrant D, Seletkovic  I,  Schröck  H-W,  Nevalainen  S,  Bussotti  F,  Garcia  P,  Wulff  S,  2016:  Part  IV:  Visual  Assessment of Crown Condition and Damaging Agents. In: UNECE ICP Forests Programme Co-ordinating Centre (ed.): Manual on methods and criteria for harmonized sampling, assessment, monitoring and analysis of the effects of air pollution on forests. Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Eberswalde, Germany, 49 p. + Annex [>>>](https://www.icp-forests.org/pdf/manual/2016/ICP_Manual_2017_02_part04.pdf )

 Paper Citation:

 * BAFU (2017) Jahrbuch Wald und Holz 2017. Umwelt-Zustand, Bundesamt für Umwelt, Bern, Vol. 1718: 110 p. [>>>](http://www.bafu.admin.ch/uz-1718-d)

 * Michel A, Seidling W, Prescher A K (2018) Forest Condition in Europe. 2018 Technical Report of ICP Forests. Report under the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). BFW-Dokumentation 25/2018, BFW Austrian Research Centre for Forests, Vienna, 92 p. [Technical Reports](http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-technical-report)

 * Brang P., 1998: Sanasilva-Bericht 1997. Zustand und Gefährdung des Schweizer Waldes – eine Zwischenbilanz nach 15 Jahren Waldschadenforschung. Berichte der Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, Vol. 345. Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, 102 S. [>>>](https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/wsl/islandora/object/wsl:14555)

crown-condition

display_name: crown-condition

damage-causes

display_name: damage-causes

damaging-agents

display_name: damaging-agents

forest-condition

display_name: forest-condition

forest-vitality

display_name: forest-vitality

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: Crown Condition Assessment and Damage Cause Assessment Sanasilva


en: southern-switzerland drought-stress spei dendroecology grapevine-yellows

en: Dataset 1

en: Sample identification, symptomatology (symptomatic vs. asymptomatic), coordinates (CH1903), phloem disarrangement class, drought-sensitivity, slope sector.

en: Dataset 2. Ring width.

en:
Ring width measured with cellSens from slides.
Measures expressed as [μm] and arranged per ID (see dataset 1) and year.

en:
Dataset collected from dendroecological study on trunks of grapevines ('Chardonnay' cv.) infected by the "Flavescence dorée" phytoplasma (FDp) in Origlio (southern Switzerland) in 2019-2020. Ring widths were measured with cellSens (Olympus Corporation). Calculations and analysis were conducted within R.
The Flavescence dorée phytoplasma (FDp) causes a severe grapevine (Vitis vinifera) disease. Anatomical modification due to FDp infections are known to occur but research so far focused on stems and leaf tissues and, in particular, on their phloem structure. In this paper, we applied dendrochronological techniques on wood rings and analysed the anatomical structures of the trunk of the susceptible grapevine cultivar ‘Chardonnay’ in order to verify their response to FDp infections.
In this study, we tested the impact of FDp and drought stress on xylem ring width and also described phloem anomalies inside the trunk of grapevines. We concluded that drought and FDp infection both have a significant effect on ring width reductions and that FDp supersedes the effect of drought conditions (calculated after the SPEI index) in infected specimens.

dendroecology

display_name: dendroecology

drought-stress

display_name: drought-stress

grapevine-yellows

display_name: grapevine-yellows

southern-switzerland

display_name: southern-switzerland

spei

display_name: spei

en: Impact of the “Flavescence dorée” phytoplasma on xylem growth and phloem anomalies in trunks of ‘Chardonnay’ grapevines (Vitis vinifera)


en: planning-efficacy governance strategic-planning analytical-hierarchy-process land-use-planning

en: The present content is part of the published paper Palka, G., Oliveira, E., Pagliarin, S., & Hersperger, A. M. (2021). Strategic spatial planning and efficacy: an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach in Lyon and Copenhagen. European planning studies, 29(6), 1174-1192. It contains the jupyter notebook and sample data to compute Analytical Hierarchy Process, and a report on its use.

analytical-hierarchy-process

display_name: analytical-hierarchy-process

governance

display_name: governance

land-use-planning

display_name: land-use-planning

planning-efficacy

display_name: planning-efficacy

strategic-planning

display_name: strategic-planning

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Planning efficacy computation based on AHP


permanent-vegetation-quadrats-lwf

title_for_slug: permanent-vegetation-quadrats-lwf

en: ground-vegetation species-composition swiss-forest-lab long-term-forest-ecosystem-research icp-forests

en:
Ground vegetation is an important compartment of the ecosystem in terms of biodiversity and it takes an active part in the general functioning of the ecosystem. It is also a useful bio-indicator of the site conditions and its monitoring may enable the detection of environmental changes. Ground vegetation relevés were carried out repeatedly at 17 LWF plots during in the the period between 1994 and 2011. In 2013, ground vegetation was surveyed at an additional LWF plot (Laegeren). The cover of all plant species occurring in 16 1-m2 quadrats, distributed over the 43 x 43 m intensive monitoring subplot was visually assessed. Seedlings and saplings were also counted and their position within the quadrat was noted in order to assess tree regeneration.

 Purpose:

To assess the species diversity of ground vegetation and detect possible environmental changes using its bio-indicator value.

 Manual Citation:

 * Kull, P., 1997. Kapitel D2. Vegetationsaufnahmen. In: Brang, P. (Ed.), Aufnahmeanleitungen aller Forschungsprojekte auf Flächen der Langfristigen Waldökosystem-Forschung (LWF). Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, pp. 1-9.

 * Canullo R, Starlinger F, Granke O, Fischer R, Aamlid D, 2016: Part VI.1: Assessment of Ground Vegetation. In: UNECE ICP Forests Programme Co-ordinating Centre (ed.): Manual on methods and criteria for harmonized sampling, assessment, monitoring and analysis of the effects of air pollution on forests. Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Eberswalde, 12 p. + Annex [http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual](http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual)

 Paper Citation:

 * Thimonier A, Kull P, Keller W, Moser B, Wohlgemuth T (2011) Ground vegetation monitoring in Swiss forests: comparison of survey methods and implications for trend assessments. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 174: 47-63. [doi: 10.1007/s10661-010-1759-y](http://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1759-y)

ground-vegetation

display_name: ground-vegetation

species-composition

display_name: species-composition

en: Permanent vegetation quadrats LWF


napf-ert-monitoring-data

title_for_slug: napf-ert-monitoring-data

en: early-warning shallow-landslides monitoring ert soil-moisture

en: ERT filtered monitoring data

en: ERT filtered monitoring data in dat format

en: ERT raw monitoring data

en: ERT raw monitoring data in bin format

en:
The dataset contains the electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) monitoring data from the publication Wicki and Hauck (2022). It contains the unprocessed monitoring data and the filtered monitoring data prior to the inversion process.

The data is organized in two zip-files:

*  Napf_Raw_BIN.zip: Raw monitoring data in bin-format
*  Napf_Filtered_DAT.zip: Filtered monitoring data in dat-format including topography of the monitoring line

The zip files contain the apparent resistivity measurements (ohm m) of the individual measurements. The naming convention of the files is according to following convention: site_profile_configuration_date_time.format

The file names contain following abbreviations:

*  Site: Napf
*  Profile: Hor (horizontal profile), Ver (vertical profile)
*  Configuration: WS (Wenner-Schlumberger configuration)
*  Date: Format YYYY-MM-DD
*  Time: Format hhmm

early-warning

display_name: early-warning

ert

display_name: ert

monitoring

display_name: monitoring

shallow-landslides

display_name: shallow-landslides

soil-moisture

display_name: soil-moisture

en: Napf ERT monitoring data


en: shortwave-radiation longwave-radiation davos weisfluhjoch radiation

en: Metadata

mimetype: application/pdf

en: DATA ACCESS

en: ASRB radiation station at the Weissfluhjoch versuchsfeld.

en: Parameter file

en: Description of ASRB parameters.

mimetype: text/plain

en: Processing doc

en: Description of processing code that was ported to R by P. Frei (2016).

en:
Incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave 2 min radiation measurements at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos, CH. The experimental site at the Weissfluhjoch (WFJ, 46.83 N, 9.81 E) is located at an altitude of 2540 m in the Swiss Alps near Davos. During the winter months, almost all precipitation falls as snow at this altitude. As a consequence, a continuous seasonal snow cover builds up every winter, with a maximum snow height ranging from 153–366 cm over the period 1934–2012. The measurement site is located in an almost flat part of a southeast oriented slope.

 References
1. Marty, C., Philipona, R., Frohlich, C., Ohmura, A.. Altitude dependence of surface radiation fluxes and cloud forcing in the alps: results from the alpine surface radiation budget network. 2002. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. Volume 72. Issue 3-4. 137-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s007040200019. 10.1007/s007040200019.
2. Christoph Marty. Surface Radiation, Cloud Forcing and Greenhouse Effect in the Alps. 2000. Institute fuer Klimaforschung ETH. Zuercher Klima-Schriften. Volume 79. http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:23491/eth-23491-01.pdf.

davos

display_name: davos

longwave-radiation

display_name: longwave-radiation

radiation

display_name: radiation

shortwave-radiation

display_name: shortwave-radiation

weisfluhjoch

display_name: weisfluhjoch

en: ASRB_WFJVF: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos


digitizing-historical-plague

maintainer: Christian Ginzler

title_for_slug: digitizing-historical-plague

en: historical-plague yersinia-pestis palaeo-epidemiology plague-inventory black-death bubonic-plague plague-mapping plague-outbreaks

en: We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For georeferencing the information of Tele Atlas 2009 was used. The coordinates are in the reference systems ETRS89 and WGS84.

black-death

display_name: black-death

bubonic-plague

display_name: bubonic-plague

historical-plague

display_name: historical-plague

palaeo-epidemiology

display_name: palaeo-epidemiology

plague-inventory

display_name: plague-inventory

plague-mapping

display_name: plague-mapping

plague-outbreaks

display_name: plague-outbreaks

yersinia-pestis

display_name: yersinia-pestis

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Digitizing historical plague


maintainer: Henning Löwe

en: fast-sintering discrete-element-modelling angle-of-repose granular-snow grain-shape

en: Angle of repose and 3D CT images

en:
5 Snow types were examined and glass beads as a cohesion-less reference, named as follows:

RG: rounded grains (sieved with 0.7 - 1.4 mm)

FC: faceted grains (1.4 - 2 mm)

FCS: small faceted grains (0.7 - 1.4 mm)

IB: ice beads (4 mm)

IBS: small ice beads (2 - 2.2 mm)

GB: glass beads(2 mm)

en:
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 with focus on the role of grain shape and cohesion. The angle of repose was observed by sieving snow onto a round, freestanding base until a stationary heap was formed.

This dataset consists of 1) the images of the experimental heaps that were taken to determine the angle of repose, 2) one binary 3D micro computed tomography image of each snow type. The CT images were taken with the SLF micro-CT40 to characterize snow properties and grain shape.

The experiments with natural snow types (rounded and faceted grains) and spherical model snow allowed for an examination of the differences in granular properties between natural grain shapes and spherical particles in view of Discrete Element Modelling. With the chosen temperatures, the effect of sintering could be observed that increases the angle of repose with increasing temperature.

angle-of-repose

display_name: angle-of-repose

discrete-element-modelling

display_name: discrete-element-modelling

fast-sintering

display_name: fast-sintering

grain-shape

display_name: grain-shape

granular-snow

display_name: granular-snow

en: Angle of repose experiments with natural and spherical snow


en: pore-shape-factors local-hydraulic-resistance permeability laminar-flow heterogeneous-porous-media

en: results postprocessing

en: The results of the pore identification and integration. The results are stored as follows. Each individual iso-pressure patch (first two columns) has an identification number Np. There is more information stored than needed, such as which patches are neighbors, and what there positions are, however to assess the local hydraulic resistance you need the integrated pore identification number stored under 'tracks'. All patches belonging to the same pore have the same track number. We stored the local pressure value under 'p_i', integrated flux Q under 'Q_i', total surface area A under 'A_i' and distance dx under 'dx_int', circularity C under 'phi_i'. There are attributes stored with other identifiers such as _p and _l, they refer to the two closest neighboring patches at iso-pressure values p_i+dp and p_i-dp respectively. To obtain the exact results this data has to be preprocessed such as described in the supplementary materials of the paper.

en: Porous Media 1 2 and 3

en: Direct numerical simulations to obtain local pressure and velocity field.

en: Included are three direct numerical simulations results of Stokes flow in three heterogeneous porous media obtained with OpenFoam simulations. In addition we include three data files that contain point-based extracted pores based on the post-processing as reported in the submitted paper "Local hydraulic resistance in heterogeneous porous media" in GRL.

heterogeneous-porous-media

display_name: heterogeneous-porous-media

laminar-flow

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local-hydraulic-resistance

display_name: local-hydraulic-resistance

permeability

display_name: permeability

pore-shape-factors

display_name: pore-shape-factors

en: Hydraulic resistance of pores in porous media using DNS of laminar flow


en:
Volume of stemwood with bark of all living and dead trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh recorded according to the NFI1 method. In NFI1 only those dead trees were recorded whose wood could still be exploited. The correction for bias with the sample Tarif trees may be so drastic that it results in negative values with small numbers of trees.

Citation:
 > _Abegg, M.; Brändli, U.-B.; Cioldi, F.; Fischer, C.; Herold-Bonardi, A.; Huber M.; Keller, M.; Meile, R.; Rösler, E.; Speich, S.; Traub, B.; Vidondo, B. (2014). Fourth national forest inventory - result tables and maps on the Internet for the NFI 2009-2013 (NFI4b). [Published online 06.11.2014] Available from World Wide Web http://www.lfi.ch/resultate/ Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. [doi:10.21258/1057112](https://doi.org/10.21258/1057112)_

accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

display_name: accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

display_name: altitudinal-vegetation-zone

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

canton

display_name: canton

conifers-broadleaves

display_name: conifers-broadleaves

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

display_name: lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

main-tree-species

display_name: main-tree-species

ownership

display_name: ownership

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

tree-state-alive-dead

display_name: tree-state-alive-dead

tree-status

display_name: tree-status

en: Total timber volume NFI1


maintainer: Athanasios Nenes

en: hygroscopicity supersaturation sigma-w cloud-modeling raclets dmt-ccn-chamber cloud-droplets ccn weissfluhjoch

en: Predicted cloud droplet number concentrations Weissfluhjoch

media_type: text/csv

en:
In-situ measurements of aerosol size distributions along with updraft velocities collected from a wind Doppler Lidar are coupled with a state-of-the art droplet activation parameterization (Morales and Nenes, 2014) to determine the cloud droplet number and maximum in-cloud supersaturation that can potentially form over the Weissfluhjoch station between February 24 and March 8 2019. For this, a hygroscopicity parameter of 0.25 is assumed, according to the CCN-derived values. The data file contains:

* Date and time (DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss) in UTC
* The wind-lidar derived standard deviation of updraft velocities (sigma-w) in m/s, used to apply the parameterization employing a single characteristic velocity (Morales and Nenes, 2010)
* The maximum predicted cloud parcel supersaturation (Smax%)
* The total in-situ aerosol number concentration (Naer) in cmˉ³, measured by the SMPS
* The predicted cloud droplet numbers (Nd) in cmˉ³
* The activation fraction (%)

format: CSV

mimetype: text/csv

en: Hygroscopicity parameter Weissfluhjoch

en:
The aerosol hygroscopicity parameter is derived combining the CCN and SMPS size distribution data collected between February 24 and March 8 2019 at Weissfluhjoch. The data file contains:

* Date and time (DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss) in UTC
* The instrument supersaturation (SS%)
* The calculated hygroscopicity parameter (kappa)
* The calculated critical dry diameter of the particles (Dcr) in nm.

Missing values are indicated by "-999".

en: CCN data Weissfluhjoch

en:
In-situ CCN measurements were conducted between February 24 and March 8 2019 at Weissfluhjoch. The data file contains:

* Date and time (DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss) in UTC
* Filtered CCN number concentrations (in cmˉ³) measured at 6 discrete supersaturations (SS) ranging from 0.09% to 0.74%. The name of each CCN column is indicative of the SS developed within the instrument.
* Instrument characteristics such as sample temperature (in °C) and pressure (in mbar)
* A code that refers to the reason of filtering.

Missing or filtered CCN values are indicated by "-999", while a declaration of each "Error_code" can be found in the following list:

_Error_code_:

0000: Measurements without error

1000: Period of transient operation after a supersaturation change

2000: Sharp change (decrease) in the room temperature housing the instrument, which induces a reset in column temperature

3000: Irregular values in the room temperature housing the instrument

9999: Missing data

en:
Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) data: A Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) single-column continuous-flow streamwise thermal gradient chamber (CFSTGC; Roberts and Nenes, 2005) was deployed at the measurement site Weissfluhjoch (2700 m a.s.l., LON: 9.806475, LAT: 46.832964) to record the in-situ CCN number concentrations between February 24 and March 8 2019 for different supersaturations (SS). To account for the difference between the ambient (~735 mbar) and the calibration pressure (~800 mbar), the SS reported by the instrument is adjusted by a factor of 0.92. The CFSTGC was cycled between 6 discrete SS values ranging from 0.09% to 0.74%, producing a full CCN spectrum every hour. The raw CCN measurements are filtered to discount periods of transient operation and whenever the room temperature housing the instrument changed sufficiently to induce a reset in column temperature. Additional information can be found in Section 2.1.2 [here](https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2020-1036/).

Hygroscopicity data: The CCN number concentration measurements were directly related to the size distribution and total aerosol concentration data measured by the Scanning Mobility Particle Size Spectrometer (SMPS) instrument at the same station (https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/aerosol-data-weissfluhjoch) to infer the particles hygroscopicity parameter (kappa). For each SMPS scan, the particles critical dry diameter (Dcr) is estimated by integrating backward the SMPS size distribution, until the aerosol number matches the CCN concentration observed for the same time period as the SMPS scan. Assuming the particle chemical composition is internally mixed, the kappa is determined from Dcr and SS, applying Köhler theory. Additional information can be found in Section 2.2 [here](https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2020-1036/).

Predicted cloud droplet numbers: Droplet calculations are carried out with the physically based aerosol activation parameterization of Morales and Nenes (2014), employing the “characteristic velocity” approach of Morales and Nenes (2010). Aerosol size distribution observations required to predict the cloud droplet numbers and maximum in-cloud supersaturation are obtained from the SMPS instrument deployed at Weissfluhjoch. The required vertical velocity measurements are derived from the wind Doppler Lidar (https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/lidar-wind-profiler-data) deployed at Davos Wolfgang and are extracted for the altitude of interest, being 1100 m above ground level for Weissfluhjoch. Additional information can be found in Section 2.3 [here](https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2020-1036/).

ccn

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display_name: dmt-ccn-chamber

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display_name: hygroscopicity

raclets

display_name: raclets

sigma-w

display_name: sigma-w

supersaturation

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weissfluhjoch

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educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: CCN, hygroscopicity, predicted cloud droplet numbers Weissfluhjoch


en: meteorological-measurements meteorological-data lwf forest plot infrastructure swiss-forest-lab

en: Nationalpark Meteorological Data LWF

en: LWF plot Nationalpark. Photo: Oliver Schramm, 2011

en:
![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/4a0ff376-83d2-4ae4-bf2e-c361eb050778/resource/51e98f2d-5524-4ea6-babb-9df0b9aba8f1/download/lwf_nationalpark.jpg "LWF Nationalpark")

LWF Plot Nationalpark

- Community: Zernez / canton GR
- Date of installation: 10 October 1995
- Size of the plot: 2 ha
- Altitude: 1890-1907 m
- Mean slope: 11%
- Geology (in German): Nacheiszeitlicher Schwemmfächer; kalkhaltige Moräne, Dolomite, Kalke, Tonschiefer, Rauhwacken
- Provisional soil types (WSL): Rendzic Leptosol
- Woodland association after EK72: 67: Erico-Pinetum montanae
- Main tree species: Pinus mugo
- Management system: high forest
- Silvicultural system: forest reserve
- Top-height diameter (quadratic average diameter of the 100 thickest trees per ha): 23.7 cm
- Number of trees BHD >= 12 cm (2011): 2450
- Maximum tree age: Pinus mugo 210 yr

More Information: https://www.wsl.ch/en/forest/forest-development-and-monitoring/long-term-forest-ecosystem-research-lwf/sites/nationalpark.html

forest

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meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

plot

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swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: LWF Nationalpark long-term research site


disdrometer-data-davos-wolfgang

title_for_slug: disdrometer-data-davos-wolfgang

en: raclets davos fall-velocity precipitation disdrometer

en: Disdrometer Data Davos Wolfgang

en:
The zip folder contains one netCDF file per day for Davos Wolfgang from February 8 to March 19 2019 with a temporal resolution of 30 seconds (time in UTC) and includes:

- characteristics of hydrometeors (e.g. diameter, fall velocity, amount per diameter class,...)
- precipitation rate
- radar reflectivity
- visibility range
- weather codes
- instrument performance

en: The dataset contains information on precipitation amount and type for Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) from February 8 to March 19 2019. It includes: characteristics of hydrometeors (e.g. diameter, fall velocity, amount per diameter class,...), precipitation rate, radar reflectivity, visibility range, weather codes and instrument performance.

davos

display_name: davos

disdrometer

display_name: disdrometer

fall-velocity

display_name: fall-velocity

precipitation

display_name: precipitation


title_for_slug: salvage-logging-due-to-insects

en:
Volume of stemwood with bark of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh removed from the forest between two inventories due to damage that occurred, in this case insects, and not due to silvicultural planning. This theme is derived on the level of a sample plot from the cuttings of the sample trees and the salvage cut proportion (according to information from the forester).  The correction for bias with the sample Tarif trees may be so drastic that it results in negative values with small numbers of trees.

Citation:
 > _Abegg, M.; Brändli, U.-B.; Cioldi, F.; Fischer, C.; Herold-Bonardi, A.; Huber M.; Keller, M.; Meile, R.; Rösler, E.; Speich, S.; Traub, B.; Vidondo, B. (2014). Fourth national forest inventory - result tables and maps on the Internet for the NFI 2009-2013 (NFI4b). [Published online 06.11.2014] Available from World Wide Web http://www.lfi.ch/resultate/ Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. [doi:10.21258/1057112](https://doi.org/10.21258/1057112)_

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

display_name: altitudinal-vegetation-zone

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

salvage-logging-due-to-insects

display_name: salvage-logging-due-to-insects

en: Salvage logging due to insects


en: larch-budmoth nitrogen spongy-moth flight-traps gypsy-moth nun-moth phenol

en: Moth monitoring

en: See ReadMe

en: The population dynamics of eruptive moths were monitored with pheromone traps and the composition of the larvae's foodplants were analyzed for water content, nitrogen and total phenolics. Moth catches cover a period of 20 years, leaf analyses 10 years. For Zeiraphera griseana (= Z. diniana) only needle analyses are available. The corresponding data on the moth population dynamics are property of A. Fischlin, ETH Zürich, and will be made available on EnviDat as well.

flight-traps

display_name: flight-traps

gypsy-moth

display_name: gypsy-moth

larch-budmoth

display_name: larch-budmoth

nitrogen

display_name: nitrogen

nun-moth

display_name: nun-moth

phenol

display_name: phenol

spongy-moth

display_name: spongy-moth

en: Monitoring of Lymantria dispar, Lymantria monacha and Zeiraphera griseana and host food quality in the Swiss Alps


maintainer: Dirk Nikolaus Karger

en: climatology climate-layers climate climate-change temperature precipitation free-climate-data bioclim

en: CHELSA V1.2 (deprecated)

en: CHELSA Version 1.2 based on ERA-Interim forcings and CMIP5

format: GeoTIFF

en: CHELSA Technical Documentation

en: Technical documentation document including the variable names, units, scaling, offset, and background.

en: CHELSA V2.1 (current)

en: CHELSA Version 2.1 based on ERA5 forcings and CMIP6

en:
High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas) data of downscaled temperature and precipitation to a high resolution of 30 arc sec. The temperature algorithm is based on statistical downscaling of atmospheric temperatures. The precipitation algorithm incorporates orographic predictors including wind fields, valley exposition, and boundary layer height, with a subsequent bias correction.

CHELSA data published in EnviDat includes the deprecated version 1.2 (originally published under 10.5061/dryad.kd1d4). Please use the current 2.1 version.

Paper Citation:
 > _Karger DN. et al. Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas, Scientific Data, 4, 170122 (2017) [doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.122](https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122)._

bioclim

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climate

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climate-change

display_name: climate-change

climate-layers

display_name: climate-layers

climatology

display_name: climatology

free-climate-data

display_name: free-climate-data

temperature

display_name: temperature

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal


snow-drift-station-flowcapt

maintainer: Benjamin Walter

title_for_slug: snow-drift-station-flowcapt

en: snow-blowing acoustic-mass-flux wind-speed flowcapt snowdrift raclets

en: maximum wind speed

en: The data file contains the maximum wind speed in 10 minute intervalls. The duration of one cycle was 1 min and contained 6 s observations and 54 s stand-by. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: maximum mass flux

en: The data file contains the maximum mass flux of 10 minute intervalls. The duration of one cycle was 1 min and contained 6s observations and 54 s stand-by. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: minimum mass flux

en: The data file contains the minimum mass flux of 10 minute intervalls. The duration of one cycle was 1 min and contained 6s observations and 54 s stand-by. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: average wind speed

en: The data file contains the average wind speed in 10 minute intervalls. The duration of one cycle was 1 min and contained 6s observations and 54 s stand-by. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: avergaged mass flux

en: Average mass flux of 10 min measurement interval. The Cycle duration is 1 min which includes 6 s observation and 54 s stand-by. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: minimum wind spees

en: The data file contains the minimum wind speed in 10 minute intervalls. The duration of one cycle was 1 min and contained 6s observations and 54 s stand-by. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: 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 was deployed at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849). The vertical tube with a length of 1 m monitors snowdrift and snow-blowing; and is mounted at a height between 0.1 an 1.1 m above snow surface. The time within each data set is given in UTC+1.

acoustic-mass-flux

display_name: acoustic-mass-flux

flowcapt

display_name: flowcapt

raclets

display_name: raclets

snow-blowing

display_name: snow-blowing

snowdrift

display_name: snowdrift

wind-speed

display_name: wind-speed

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Snow Drift Station - Flowcapt


maintainer: Franziska Gerber

en: antarctica cryowrf python aws consistent

en: Scripts to preprocess (and download for some databases) atmospheric weather station data. Furthermore, a list of stations and a map can be created to have an overview.

en:
There are many sources providing atmospheric weather station data for the Antarctic continent. However, variable naming, timestamps and data types are highly variable between the different sources. The published python code intends to make processing of different AWS sources from Antarctica easier. For all datasets that are taken into account variables are renamed in a consistent way. Data from different sources can then be handled in one consistent python dictionary.

The following data sources are taken into account:

* AAD: Australian Antarctic Division (https://data.aad.gov.au/aws)
* ACECRC: Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre by the Australian Antarctic Division
* AMRC: Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/aws/q1h/)
* BAS: British Antarctic Survey (ftp://ftp.bas.ac.uk/src/ANTARCTIC_METEOROLOGICAL_DATA/AWS/; https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/met/READER/ANTARCTIC_METEOROLOGICAL_DATA/)
* CLIMANTARTIDE: Antarctic Meteo-Climatological Observatory by the italian National Programme of Antarctic Research (https://www.climantartide.it/dataaccess/index.php?lang=en)
* IMAU: Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (Lazzara et al., 2012), https://www.projects.science.uu.nl/iceclimate/aws/antarctica.ph
* JMA: Japan Meteorological Agency (https://www.data.jma.go.jp/antarctic/datareport/index-e.html)
* NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/data/meteorology/in-situ/spo/)
* Other/AWS_PE: Princess Elisabeth (PE), KU Leuven, Prof. N. van Lipzig, personal communication
* Other/DDU_transect: Stations D-17 and D-47 (in transect between Dumont d’Urville and Dome C, Amory, 2020)
* PANGAEA: World Data Center (e.g. König-Langlo, 2012)

Important notes

* Information about data sources is available. Some downloading scripts are included in the provided code. However, users should make sure to comply with the data providers terms and conditions.
* Given changing download options of the differnent institutions the above links may not permanently work and data has to be retrieved by the user of this dataset.
* No quality control is applied in the provided preprocessing software - quality control is up to the user of the datasets. Some dataset are quality controlled by the owner.

Acknowledgements
--------------------------
We thank all the data providers for making the data publicly available or providing them upon request. Full acknowledgements can be found in Gerber et al., submitted.

References
---------------
Amory, C. (2020). “Drifting-snow statistics from multiple-year autonomous measurements in Adélie Land, East
Antarctica”. The Cryosphere, 1713–1725. doi: 10.5194/tc-14-1713-2020

Gerber, F., Sharma, V. and Lehning, M.: CRYOWRF - a validation and the effect of blowing snow on the Antarctic SMB, JGR - Atmospheres, submitted.

König-Langlo, G. (2012). “Continuous meteorological observations at Neumayer station (2011-01)”. Alfred Wegener
Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, doi: 10.1594/PANGAEA.
775173

antarctica

display_name: antarctica

aws

display_name: aws

consistent

display_name: consistent

cryowrf

display_name: cryowrf

python

display_name: python

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Preprocessing Antarctic Weather Station (AWS) data in python


weissfluhjoch-dataset-for-esm-snowmip

maintainer: Nander Wever

title_for_slug: weissfluhjoch-dataset-for-esm-snowmip

en: snow-models snow snow-depth weissfluhjoch esm-snowmip

en: Conversion script

en:
Use this script to convert WFJ_optimaldataset_v6.smet to wfj.smet, the file that is used for the ESM-SnowMIP project. It also requires the file: WFJ_AirPressure_Data.zip

Use: bash create_wfj_dataset.sh > input/wfj.smet

mimetype: text/x-sh

en: Dataset Weissfluhjoch for ESM-SnowMIP

en: ini file

en: This ini file is required by data-converter from MeteoIO version 1887 (http://models.slf.ch/p/meteoio/)

en: This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP project. Here it is documented how this dataset has been created.

esm-snowmip

display_name: esm-snowmip

snow

display_name: snow

snow-depth

display_name: snow-depth

snow-models

display_name: snow-models

weissfluhjoch

display_name: weissfluhjoch

en: Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP


leaf-area-index-lai-lwf

title_for_slug: leaf-area-index-lai-lwf

en: icp-forests long-term-forest-ecosystem-research swiss-forest-lab leaf-area-index foliage

en: Data Request

en:
Leaf area index (LAI), defined as the total one-sided foliage area per unit ground surface area, is one of the most important characteristics of plant canopy structure. Leaves are the active interface between the atmosphere and the ecosystem. Thus, LAI affects many ecosystem processes, including light and precipitation interception, evapotranspiration, CO2 fluxes and dry deposition. LAI was measured repeatedly in the period 1996-2013 at 18 LWF plots using 1) a LAI-2000 plant canopy analyser (Licor, Inc) and 2) hemispherical photographs of the canopy. Measurements were performed above the 16 vegetation quadrats in the 43 m x 43 m intensive monitoring subplot. In 1996-2003, LAI measurements were usually carried out on the same day as the vegetation surveys. It is also planned to characterise the potential light conditions (diffuse and direct) using the hemispherical photographs of the canopy.

 Purpose:

1) To estimate an important structural parameter of the forest stand, which is needed as an input variable in most ecosystem process models simulating carbon and water cycles on a stand or regional scale; and 2) to document changes in the canopy structure, and thus in light conditions, which may be responsible for changes in ground vegetation

 Manual Citation:

 * Thimonier, A., 1997. Kapitel C6. Blattflächenindex (LAI), in: Brang, P. (Ed.), Aufnahmeanleitungen aller Forschungsprojekte auf Flächen der Langfristigen Waldökosystem-Forschung (LWF). Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, pp. 1-5.

 * Thimonier, A., 1997. Kapitel C7. Lichtverhältnisse im Wald, in: Brang, P. (Ed.), Aufnahmeanleitungen aller Forschungsprojekte auf Flächen der Langfristigen Waldökosystem-Forschung (LWF). Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, pp. 1-4.

 * Fleck S, Raspe S, Cater M, Schleppi P, Ukonmaanaho L, Greve M, Hertel C, Weis W, Rumpf, S., Thimonier, A., Chianucci, F., Beckschäfer, P., 2016: Part XVII: Leaf Area Measurements. In: UNECE ICP Forests Programme Co-ordinating Centre (ed.): Manual on methods and criteria for harmonized sampling, assessment, monitoring and analysis of the effects of air pollution on forests. Thünen Institute  of  Forest  Ecosystems,  Eberswalde,  Germany,  34  p.  +  Annex  [http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual](http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual)

 Paper Citation:

 * Thimonier A, Kull P, Keller W, Moser B, Wohlgemuth T (2011) Ground vegetation monitoring in Swiss forests: comparison of survey methods and implications for trend assessments. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 174: 47-63. [doi: 10.1007/s10661-010-1759-y](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1759-y)

 * Thimonier A, Sedivy I, Schleppi P (2010) Estimating leaf area index in different types of mature forest stands in Switzerland: a comparison of methods. European Journal of Forest Research, 129 (4): 543-562. [10.1007/s10342-009-0353-8](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-009-0353-8)

foliage

display_name: foliage

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

leaf-area-index

display_name: leaf-area-index

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: Leaf area index (LAI) LWF


en: gemstock shortwave-radiation meteo-station longwave-radiation snow-height

en: DATA ACCESS

en:
Meteo data at Gemsstock [Level 2 dataset](http://models.slf.ch/p/dataset-processing/).

fields      = timestamp TSS HS VW DW VW_MAX OSWR ISWR ILWR RECORD AUX_VOLTAGE LOGGER_VOLTAGE LW_SENSOR_TEMP VENTILATION_FLAG OLWR

en: Meteorological station at Gemstock (3021 m asl) in Canton Uri. The station includes in/out LW/SW and a snow height sensor.

gemstock

display_name: gemstock

longwave-radiation

display_name: longwave-radiation

meteo-station

display_name: meteo-station

shortwave-radiation

display_name: shortwave-radiation

snow-height

display_name: snow-height

envidat

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: GEM2: Meteorological and snow station at Gemsstock (3021 m asl), Canton Uri, Switzerland


en: snow paleoclimate sublimation stable-water-isotopes post-depositional-processes weissfluhjoch natural-tracer latent-heat

en: Weather

en: Meteorological data, snow height measurement, and SNOWPACK simulations covering the different field campaigns.

en: Stable water isotopes in vapor

en:
Stable water isotopes in vapor measurements. Processed (calibrated) and raw data for February - June 2017. Raw data for January and February 2020.
For the time in between July 2017 and April 2020, raw vapor isotopic measurements are available, but no calibrations were performed during that time. For data delivery, please contact one of the authors.
This folder also contains the post-processing scripts for stable water isotopes in vapor measurements.

en:
Details on the data collected during the different field campaigns and available in this dataset.
Information on the sampling procedure of the snow isotopes samples.

en: Stable water isotopes in snow

en: Stable water isotopes in snow measurements

en: Folder containing the scripts and data used in "Surface snow isotopic composition: post-depositional processes in an alpine snowpack" (Sadowski et al., 2022)

en: Details about the different folders

en:
Notice: Changes to the dataset are still possible. Please do not use this dataset until the final publication with a DOI. Contact the authors if you have questions about this.

This dataset contains measurements of stable water isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch from different field campaigns (Winter 2017 (Trachsel, 2019), January 2020, December 2020, and March 2021 (Sadowski et al., 2022).
Snow profiles and surface samples are available at different frequencies for each campaign. Please see "Data_description.pdf" for details.

Scripts and SNOWPACK simulations used in (Trachsel, 2019) and (Sadowski et al., 2022) are also provided.

latent-heat

display_name: latent-heat

natural-tracer

display_name: natural-tracer

paleoclimate

display_name: paleoclimate

post-depositional-processes

display_name: post-depositional-processes

stable-water-isotopes

display_name: stable-water-isotopes

sublimation

display_name: sublimation

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Stable Water Isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch


en: climada avalanche risk avalanche-hazard-mapping hazard-indication-mapping

en: Avalanche and Climada files

en:
Avalanche release files.
Avalanche domain files.
Avalanche simulation output files (.tiff).
CLIMADA operational files (.gdf, .hdf5 and .xlsx).

en: Potential release files and the artificial RAMMS avalanche simulation output files as well as exposure geodataframe for the case study region of Ortner et al. 2022. Furthermore, all the necessary files to run the risk model Climada Avalnache which code is located at https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_papers.

avalanche

display_name: avalanche

avalanche-hazard-mapping

display_name: avalanche-hazard-mapping

climada

display_name: climada

hazard-indication-mapping

display_name: hazard-indication-mapping

risk

display_name: risk

en: Large-scale risk assessment on snow avalanche hazard in alpine regions


maintainer: Christoph Marty

en: snowfall climate-change-impacts hydrology snow water-cycle

en: Synthesis report chapter

en: DORA Persistent URL

en:
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 is the fact that its volume and duration is subject to large year-to-year fluctuations. As frozen precipitation, snow cover is nothing other than a natural water reservoir that delays precipitation to runoff and is thus of outstanding importance for the seasonal water balance in Switzerland. Over a whole year, approximately 40% (22 km3) of the annual runoff currently comes from snow melting and only 1% from glacier melting. Typically, the snow cover in the Alpine region builds up over the autumn and winter months, reaches its maximum between February and May, depending on the altitude, and dominates the runoff processes during melting in the following spring and summer months.
Due to the great dependence on minus temperatures and precipitation, the snow cover reacts sensitively to temperatures above 0° Celsius and more or less precipitation. Due to climate change and the associated warming, the proportion of precipitation that falls as snow decreases measurably. In addition to this reduction in snowfall, the warmer temperatures also cause the snow cover to melt more quickly. The decline in snowfall has so far mainly affected lower altitudes, where winter temperatures often reach positive levels.
As climate change progresses, this trend is likely to continue and above all affect higher zones. Even at higher altitudes, the snow cover will then start later, melt away earlier and is increasingly no longer permanently present. This development will also have an effect on the water bodies. Today nival regimes, i.e. regimes shaped by snow, are shifting towards pluvial regimes, i.e. regimes dominated by rain. Overall, winter runoff increases, summer runoff decreases. By the end of the century, the proportion of runoff from snowmelt will decrease throughout Switzerland, albeit to a lesser extent than the proportion from glacier melt.

climate-change-impacts

display_name: climate-change-impacts

hydrology

display_name: hydrology

snow

display_name: snow

snowfall

display_name: snowfall

water-cycle

display_name: water-cycle

envidat

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate


herb-layer-biomass-in-swiss-forests

title_for_slug: herb-layer-biomass-in-swiss-forests

en: sedges grasses shrubs national-forest-inventory biomass ferns herbs

en: Collected herb layer data

en: Table with primary data collected in the field

en: Final Report

en: Final Report of the project submitted to the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment.

en: Measured C and N contens [%] of collected herb layer biomass samples.

en: Repeated samples

en: Data collected during re-sampling on sub-sample of sites

en: The purpose of this project was to develop a model to estimate herb layer biomass and carbon stock based on the categorical cover estimate on each NFI sample plot. To this end, biomass and cover of the six main plant groups in the herb layer were collected from 405 1x1 m subplots on 135 study sites (15 sites in 9 strata) which were selected based on a stratified sampling approach. To ensure consistency with NFI methodology, study sites corresponded to the design of regular NFI sample plots and plant cover was estimated by trained field-crew members. Based on the dry weight of the plant biomass and the cover estimate on each subplot, a linear regression model was developed and applied to estimate herb layer biomass on each NFI sample plot.

biomass

display_name: biomass

ferns

display_name: ferns

grasses

display_name: grasses

herbs

display_name: herbs

national-forest-inventory

display_name: national-forest-inventory

sedges

display_name: sedges

shrubs

display_name: shrubs

en: Herb layer biomass in Swiss forests


en: soil-ph plants ecological-maps soil-mapping ecological-indicator-values switzerland landolt soil-moisture

en: Description

en: Description of the predictors provided in this dataset

en: Predictors

en: Predictors generated and used in Descombes et al. (2020)

en:
Ecologically meaningful predictors are often neglected in plant distribution studies, resulting in incomplete niche quantification and low predictive power of species distribution models (SDMs). Because environmental data are rare and expensive to collect, and because their relationship with local climatic and topographic conditions are complex, mapping them over large geographic extents and at high spatial resolution remains a major challenge. Here, we derived environmental data layers by mapping ecological indicator values (EIVs) in space by using a large set of environmental predictors in Switzerland.

This dataset contains the predictors (raster layers) generated and used in the following publication (Descombes et al. 2020). Only predictors for which we have the rights to share them are provided. Other datasets and predictors can be accessed via the original data provider. Details on the predictors and sources are fully described in the publication. The predictors are provided as GeoTIFF files, at 93 m spatial resolution and Mercator projection ("+proj=merc +lon_0=0 +k=1 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs"). The excel file (xlsx) provides a short description of the raster layers.

Paper Citation:

Descombes, P. et al. (2020). Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values improves predictions of plant distributions in complex landscapes. Ecography. (accepted)

ecological-indicator-values

display_name: ecological-indicator-values

ecological-maps

display_name: ecological-maps

landolt

display_name: landolt

plants

display_name: plants

soil-mapping

display_name: soil-mapping

soil-moisture

display_name: soil-moisture

soil-ph

display_name: soil-ph

switzerland

display_name: switzerland

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal


en: plan-evaluation hannover strategic-planning land-change land-use-planning

en: The present dataset is the summary of each planning intention (name, type, development pattern, land use, and link with governance and supra regionel conditions), the explanation of interest, and the mapping from plan.

hannover

display_name: hannover

land-change

display_name: land-change

land-use-planning

display_name: land-use-planning

plan-evaluation

display_name: plan-evaluation

strategic-planning

display_name: strategic-planning

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Planning intention in Hannover urban region


en: habitat multi-stage vegetation balanced-sampling unequal-probability

en: R script

en: data

en:
License: GPL-v2

The R script presents an advanced sampling approach for monitoring biodiversity on agricultural land by combining multiple objectives and integrating environmental and geographic space.

The example demonstrates the first-stage selection of squares (km2) in the ALL-EMA sampling design using modern sampling techniques such as unequal probability sampling with fixed sample size, balanced sampling, stratified balancing and geographic spreading. Sampling is done with unequal probabilities and weights defined by power allocation to give equal weight to extrapolations to the total agricultural area of Switzerland and two stratifications of predefined interest (regions and agricultural production zones). Calibration is used to limit the distribution of the sampling weights. The sample sizes are almost fixed within the strata and evenly distributed across the years of a temporal rotation plan, which is favourable for the organisation of the field survey. Sampling also ensures an optimal (annual) distribution across geographic space, including altitude. Despite the complexity of the sampling, estimation based on probability theory is straightforward.

Ecker, K.T., Meier, E.S. & Tillé, Y. 2023. Integrating spatial and ecological information into comprehensive biodiversity monitoring on agricultural land. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 195.

balanced-sampling

display_name: balanced-sampling

habitat

display_name: habitat

multi-stage

display_name: multi-stage

unequal-probability

display_name: unequal-probability

vegetation

display_name: vegetation

en: R script and input data for "ALL-EMA sampling design"


photogrammetric-drone-data-schurlialp

maintainer: Yves Bühler

title_for_slug: photogrammetric-drone-data-schurlialp

en: photogrammetry dsm wingtra drone-data uav orthophoto

en: Data Access

en:
- 10 cm DSM
- 10 cm HS
- 3 cm orthophoto
- original RGB images
- Agisoft Metashape Processing Report

All of the products are also available as a cloud optimized geotiff.

en: The data was collected on 16.04.2021 and on 28.05.2021 with a Wingtra Gen II and a Sony RX1 II RGB sensor to obtain snow depth and distribution data. Following the data collection, the data was processed with Agisoft Metashape. A 10cm DSM, a 10cm snow depth raster, a 3mm orthophoto and the original drone images are available for download.

drone-data

display_name: drone-data

dsm

display_name: dsm

orthophoto

display_name: orthophoto

photogrammetry

display_name: photogrammetry

uav

display_name: uav

wingtra

display_name: wingtra

en: Photogrammetric Drone Data Schürlialp


literature-data-of-sound-speed-in-snow

title_for_slug: literature-data-of-sound-speed-in-snow

en: literature wave-speed frequency sound-speed density snow

en: Capelli

en: Takei

en: Ishida

en: Yamada

en: Oura

en: Marco

en: Reiweger

en: Gudra

en: Iwase

en: Smith

en: This dataset contains literature data for snow density and frequency dependency of speed of sound waves in snow. The data were either available as tabular data in the original publications or were digitized from plots contained in the original publications. The data were originally collected and used for first figure in Capelli et al. (2016) .

density

display_name: density

frequency

display_name: frequency

literature

display_name: literature

snow

display_name: snow

sound-speed

display_name: sound-speed

wave-speed

display_name: wave-speed

en: Literature data of sound speed in snow


en: quercus-pubescens araneae carabidae gall-wasps pinus-sylvestris cynipidae drought

en: Insect fauna Pfynwald

en: See ReadMe

en: In the dry Pfynwald forest a long-term experiment of WSL was initiated in 2003 with a set of irrigated and non-irrigated plots. Forest Entomologie WSL made several investigations, one of them on the effect of irrigation (or conversely of drought) on the biodiversity of epigaeic arthropods such as ground beetles and spiders. In addition, its effects were also assessed by counting galls formed by gall wasps on pubescent oak.

araneae

display_name: araneae

carabidae

display_name: carabidae

cynipidae

display_name: cynipidae

drought

display_name: drought

gall-wasps

display_name: gall-wasps

pinus-sylvestris

display_name: pinus-sylvestris

quercus-pubescens

display_name: quercus-pubescens

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Diversity of ground beetles and spiders as well as cynipid oak gall formation on irrigated and non-irrigated plots in a dry mixed Scots pine forest


dischmex-meteorological-measurements

maintainer: Rebecca Mott

title_for_slug: dischmex-meteorological-measurements

en: dischmex meteorological-measurements meteo-station dischma meteorological-data

en: Meteorological measurement 2014

en: data

en: Meteorological measurements 2016

en: Location of the meteorological stations

en: Meteorological measurement 2015

en: Meteorological measurements 2014

en: Overview sensors

en:
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 parameter in the upper Dischma valley in the closer surroundings of the Gletschboden area. The meteorological stations are eqiupped with at least air temperature/humidity, wind velocity and wind direction sensors. Some stations are additionally equipped with precipitation, shortwave radiation and snow surface temperature sensors.
Three transects were installed at different aspects and were equipped with air temperature/humidity and wind sensors. Transect 1 (stations 2-4) provides meteorological Information on an east-north-east facing slope at elevations ranging between 2100 m and 2500 m. Transect 2 (stations 5-7) provides meteorological Information on a south-west slope and transect 3 (stations 8-10) on a north-west slope. Station 1 is fully equipped with meteorological sensors (temperature/humidity, wind, IR, up and downwand shortwave radiation and precipitation).
In 2016, mobile stations from sensorscope were replaced with six permanent meteorological stations. Meteorological stations 1-3 are equipped with an air temperature/humidity sensor, two wind speed sensors, a wind direction sensor and an incoming and outgoing shortwave radiation sensor. Stations 4 and 6 are equipped with an air temperature/humidity sensor and a wind speed/direction sensor. Station 5 is a equipped with an air temperature/humidity sensor, a wind speed/direction sensor, a snow surface temperature sensor, an incoming and outgoing shortwave radiation sensor and an incoming longwave radiation sensor.

dischma

display_name: dischma

dischmex

display_name: dischmex

meteo-station

display_name: meteo-station

meteorological-data

display_name: meteorological-data

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

en: DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements


intratrait

maintainer: Christian Rixen

title_for_slug: intratrait

en: elevation-range plant-traits climate-change neighbour-interactions cold-adapted-plants elevation-gradient

en: Plant trait data along elevation gradients on mountains

en:
This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across their elevational distribution, or in response to neighbours, than species from lower elevations or with wider elevational ranges. We did so by studying intraspecific trait variation of 66 species along 40 elevational gradients in four countries (Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, China) in both hemispheres. As an indication of potential neighbour interactions that could drive trait variation, we also analysed plant species’ height ratio, its height relative to its nearest neighbour.
The following traits and parameters were measured and are available in this data set:
As an indication of plant stature, we measured vegetative and generative height, where vegetative height was distance from soil to highest vegetative leaf and generative height was distance to the highest point on the reproductive shoot. As a measure of reproductive investment, we noted the presence of flowers on the randomly chosen individuals (see below). As a measure of individual and genet basal area, we measured individual plant and patch diameters, in two dimensions (along the largest diameter and perpendicular to it). In clonal plant species, plant diameter was equivalent to an individual rosette, whereas patch diameter referred to the whole genet and could represent the size of a tuft, tussock or cushion. For genera with more singular growth forms (e.g., some Gentiana species) plant and patch diameter were the same. The two diameter measurements were made at right angles, allowing estimates of patch and plant areas to be calculated as an ellipse (i.e., area = 0.5 a 0.5 b Π). All traits were measured on ten randomly selected individuals per site. Flower count data was considered in a binary fashion on a per individual basis (because for some species individuals only produce one flower when flowering) so that the presence or absence of flower(s) was a nominal value between 0 and 10 for each species at each site. We then collected at least three leaves (up to 30 for small and light leaves) from each of the first three individuals selected from each species for determination of leaf dry matter content (LDMC) and specific leaf area (SLA). For calculations of LDMC and SLA, fresh leaves were scanned on a flatbed scanner to determine leaf area. Leaves were then weighed on a balance to a precision of +/- 0.001g, prior to being air dried and reweighed with a balance to a precision of +/- 0.0001g. LDMC was calculated by dividing dry leaf mass by fresh leaf mass. SLA was calculated by dividing leaf area by dry leaf mass. Additionally, within an area of 10 cm diameter around the target individual, we determined the tallest neighbouring species and measured its vegetative and generative height, and estimated the percent cover of the target species, other vegetation, rock, and bare soil.
For more details see Rixen et al. 2022, Journal of Ecology.

climate-change

display_name: climate-change

cold-adapted-plants

display_name: cold-adapted-plants

elevation-gradient

display_name: elevation-gradient

elevation-range

display_name: elevation-range

neighbour-interactions

display_name: neighbour-interactions

plant-traits

display_name: plant-traits

en: intratrait


aerosol-data-weissfluhjoch

title_for_slug: aerosol-data-weissfluhjoch

en: particles inp aerosol ice-nucleation raclets linda

en: SMPS Dataset Weissfluhjoch

en: The SMPS file contains aerosol data (particle concentration, total number concentration, median, mean, geometric mean, mode and geometric standard deviation of the size distribution) in a size range between 12 and 460 nm (electrical mobility diameter) as well as instrument characteristics (sample temperature, pressure, relative humidity, mean free path and gas viscosity) in a temporal resolution of 2 minutes, with time in UTC, measured at Weissfluhjoch.

mimetype: application/x-netcdf

en: OPC-N3 Dataset Weissfluhjoch

en: Particle concentrations in a size range of 0.35 μm to 40 μm were measured with an OPC-N3 (Alphasense, Inc.) in a resolution of 20 seconds (time in UTC). PM₁, PM₂,₅ and PM₁₀ were directly derived.

en: LINDA Dataset Weissfluhjoch

en: The LINDA file contains information on temperature (in °C) dependent frozen fractions, number of Ice Nuleating Particles (INP, per standard liter) and differential INP concentrations (per standard liter and Kelvin).

en: OPC-GT526S Dataset Weissfluhjoch

en: Particle counts were recorded in six size channels (0.3, 0.5, 0.8, 1.5, 2.5 and 5 μm) in a resolution of 20 seconds (time in UTC) by a particle counter (GT-526S, Met One Instruments, Inc.).

en: APS Dataset Weissfluhjoch

en: The APS file contains aerosol data (total number concentration, median, mean, geometric mean, mode and geometric standard deviation of the size distribution) for aerodynamic diameters between 0.5 μm and ~20 μm as well as instrument characteristics, in a temporal resolution of 20 seconds, with time in UTC, measured at Weissfluhjoch.

en:
Aerosol properties were measured between February 8 and March 31 2019 at the measurement site Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.806475, LAT: 46.832964). Optical and aerodynamic particle counters, as well as a scanning mobility particle size spectrometer and an ice nuclei counter were deployed to report particle concentrations and size distributions in fine (10-1000 nm) and coarse mode (> 1000 nm), cloud condensation nuclei concentrations (CCNCs), and ice nuclei particle concentrations (ICNCs). The ambient particles were transported via a heated inlet to be distributed to the particle detecting devices inside the setup room.

Optical Particle Counter (OPC): Light scattering of a diode laser beam caused by travelling particles is used in the both, the OPC-N3 (0.41 - 38.5 μm) and GT-526S (0.3 – 5 μm), to determine their size and number concentration. For the OPC-N3, particle size spectra and concentration data are used afterwards to calculate PM₁, PM₂,₅ and PM₁₀ (assumptions: particle density: 1.65 g cmˉ³, refractive index: 1.5+i0).

Aerodynamic Particle Sizer (APS): The APS (3321, TSI Inc.) measured the particle size distribution for aerodynamic diameters between 0.5 μm and ~20 μm by the particle’s time-of-flight and light-scattering intensity (assumptions: particle density 1 g cmˉ³).

Scanning Mobility Particle Size Spectrometer (SMPS): Particle number concentrations in a size range between 12 and 460 nm (electrical mobility diameter) were measured at Davos Wolfgang, using a Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer Spectrometer (SMPS 3938, TSI Inc.). The classifier (3082, TSI Inc.) was equipped with a neutralizer (3088, TSI Inc.) and a differential mobility analyzer working with negative polarity (3081, TSI Inc.). The size selected particles were counted by a water-based condensation particle counter (3787 TSI Inc.). The TSI AIM software was used to provide particle size distributions by applying multiple charge and diffusion loss corrections (assumptions: particle density 1 g cmˉ³).

Coriolis μ and LINDA: A microbial air sampler (Coriolis μ, bertin Instruments) was used to collect airborne particles for investigating their ice nucleating ability with a droplet freezing device. Particles larger than 0.5 μm were drawn with an air flow rate of up to 300 l min‾¹ into the cone and centrifuged into the wall of the cone due to the forming vortex. The liquid sample was transferred into the LED based Ice Nucleation Detection Apparatus (LINDA, University of Basel) to study heterogeneous ice formation (immersion freezing mode) of ambient airborne particles.

aerosol

display_name: aerosol

ice-nucleation

display_name: ice-nucleation

inp

display_name: inp

linda

display_name: linda

particles

display_name: particles

raclets

display_name: raclets

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Aerosol Data Weissfluhjoch


en: snow-water-equivalent snow-depth snow-density model-validation-data model-calibration-data

en: swe2hs calibration and validation data

en:
 Contents of this archive

 README.md

 A readme file containing a description of the other files.

 automatic_stations_validation_data.csv

 Daily data from the automatic weather stations used for validation.

 Data sources and providers are listed in the SWE2HS paper, Table 1.

 Columns:

  * date: timestamp of the format YYYY-MM-DD
  * HS_[m]: snow depth in [m]
  * SWE_[m]: snow water equivalent in [m]
  * site_id: code for the measurement site
  - HS_interpolated: boolean flag for interpolated values
  - SWE_interpolated: : boolean flag for interpolated values

 coordinates_swe2hs_paper_stations.csv

 Coordinates of all measurement sites used in the SWE2HS paper.

 Columns:

  * site_id: code for the measurement site
  * location_name: location name of the measurement site
  * lon_[wgs84]: longitude in WGS84
  * lat_[wgs84]: latitude in WGS84
  * elevation_[m]: atitude of the measurement site in [m]
  * dataset: dataset in which the station is included

 manual_station_calibration_data.csv

 Calibration data from the Swiss manual observer stations. Long station records
 trmmed to 15 random water-years.

 Columns:

  * date: timestamp of the format YYYY-MM-DD
  * HS_[m]: snow depth in [m]
  * SWE_[m]: snow water equivalent in [m]
  * SWE_from_profile_[m]: biweekly measurement from the SWE in the measurement
   pit. Corrected with the bulk density in order to match the snow depth from
   the measurement stake. Please refer to the paper for further details.
  * site_id: code for the measurement site

 manual_stations_validation_data.csv

 Validation data from the Swiss manual observer stations. Remaining water-years
 from the long sttaion record not used for the calibration data.

 Columns:

  * date: timestamp of the format YYYY-MM-DD
  * HS_[m]: snow depth in [m]
  * SWE_[m]: snow water equivalent in [m]
  * SWE_from_profile_[m]: biweekly measurement from the SWE in the measurement
   pit. Corrected with the bulk density in order to match the snow depth from
   the measurement stake. Please refer to the paper for further details.
  * site_id: code for the measurement site

 manual_stations_used_deltasnow_parameters.csv

 Site specific DeltaSNOW model parameters used for the calculation of the daily
 SWE series in 'manual_stations_calibration_data.csv' and
 'manual_stations_validation_data.csv'.

 Parameters were optimized by reducing RMSE to the biweekly snow pit SWE measurements.
 Please refer to the paper for further details.

 A python implementation of the DeltaSNOW model was used for the calculation:
 pydeltasnow (https://pypi.org/project/pydeltasnow/)

 For a detailed description of the DeltaSNOW model parameters please see the
 respective publication:

 Winkler, M., Schellander, H., & Gruber, S. (2021). Snow water equivalents
 exclusively from snow depths and their temporal changes: the Δ snow model.
 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(3), 1165-1187.

 Columns:

  * site_id: code for the measurement site
  * rho_max: Maximum density of an individual snow layer produced by the DeltaSNOW model in [kg/m3]
  * rho_null: Fresh snow density for a newly created layer [kg/m3
  * c_ov: Overburden factor due to fresh snow [-]
  * k_ov: Defines the impact of the individual layer density on the compaction due to overburden [-]
  * k: Exponent of the exponential-law compaction [m3/kg]
  * tau: Uncertainty bound [m]
  * eta_null: Effective compactive viscosity of snow for “zero-density” [Pa s]

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The data in this repository was used for the calibration and validation of the
SWE2HS model in the following publication:
Aschauer, J., Michel, A., Jonas, T., & Marty, C. (2023). An empirical model to calculate snow depth from daily snow water equivalent: SWE2HS 1.0. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-258
Contains daily snow water equivalent and snow depth timeseries from stations in the European Alps.

model-calibration-data

display_name: model-calibration-data

model-validation-data

display_name: model-validation-data

snow-density

display_name: snow-density

snow-depth

display_name: snow-depth

snow-water-equivalent

display_name: snow-water-equivalent

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