en: long-term relative-humidity wind-speed meteo par meteorology climate-change temperature swiss-forest-lab precipitation

en: Data plot of the forest station (CIB)

en: Data overview for air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, PAR, wind speed.

en: Site aerial photo (Chironico)

en: Site aerial photo from both Chironico stations. Source: Google. 2016. Site aerial photo from both Chironico stations. Retrieved November 11, 2016, from https://www.google.ch/maps

en: Data plot of the field station (CIF)

en: Site photo of the forest station (CIB)

en: Site photo of the forest station from below (viewing upwards the slope).

en: Forest station data (CIB)

en: Data file.

en: Site photo of the field station (CIF)

en: Site photo of the field station from the side.

en: High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises almost 20 years of measurements for two meteorological stations in Chironico in Switzerland where one station is located within a natural coniferous forest stand (CIB) with Norway spruce (_Picea abies_; 160-180 yrs) and European silver fir (_Abies alba_; 140-160 yrs) as dominant tree species. A second station is situated in the very vicinity outside of the forest (field station, CIF). The meteorological time series are presented in hourly time resolution of air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and wind speed. Chironico is part of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF) established and maintained by the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.

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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: Chironico, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 2000 onwards


en: saproxylic-beetles habitat-heterogeneity dead-wood forest-management sloss biodiversity habitat-availability colonisation conservation

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en: Community matrix (all beetles)

en: Abundances of all beetle species for each branch bundle

format: XLS

en: Forest and environmental variables

en: Data on the branch bundle, forest and environmental variables

en: Variable description

en: Detailed description of the forest and environmental variables

en: Community matrix (saproxylic beetles)

en: Abundances of saproxylic beetle species for each branch bundle

en:
The data was generated during a landscape experiment performed on 69 plots in Sihlwald forest between 2016 and 2019. Branch bundles of different sizes consisting of beech branches were exposed in the forest for one year to be colonized by saproxylic beetles and later reared for one year in emergence traps. All beetles emerging from the branches were collected. Overall 244 branch bundles are included and we found 66 beetles species (23511 individuals) of which 43 were classified as saproxylic (20873 individuals).
 Species data (2 tables)
Two community matrices (including abundance): one for saproxylic beetles and one for all beetles. Beetles were classfied as saproxylic following an extended list of the list reported in Schmidl & Bussler (2004).
 Model data (1 table)
*Response variables*
Species richness and abundance of (saproxylic) beetles.
*Branch bundles*
Branch bundles consisted of 1, 3, 6 or 12 branches and each bundle size was installed at each of the 69 plots. The bundles consisted of standardized freshly cut beech branches (Fagus sylvatica) with a length of 80 cm and a diameter between 3 and 6 cm. Total surface and volume of each bundle is reported.
*Tree on which the bundle was installed*
Information on the tree to which the bundles were attached (tree species, dbh, distance and azimut from the plot center).
*Temperature and light availability*
Temperature (plot level) and light availability (bundle level) were calculated.
*Deadwood availability in the landscape*
Based on a map of lying dead wood, dead wood amount and isolation were calculated for concentric circles with a radius ranging from 20 to 200 m (in 10 m steps) around each branch bundle.
 Variable descriptions (1 table)

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educ

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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.

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.

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en: Beetle communities reared from beech branches and associated forest and environmental variables


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en: research-data-management nead meteorological-data-format metadata-convention csv

en: MeteoIO (future reference implementation)

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en: NEAD syntax v0.1 (EBNF)

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en: PyNEAD (future reference implementation)

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en: NEAD on GitHub

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Acknowledgement: The NEAD format includes NetCDF metadata and is proudly inspired by both SMET and NetCDF formats. NEAD is designed as a long-term data preservation and exchange format.

The NEAD specifications were presented at the "WMO Data Conference 2020 - Earth System Data Exchange in the 21st Century" (Virtual Conference).

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Summary:
The Non-Binary Environmental Data Archive (NEAD) format is being developed as a generic and intuitive format that combines the self-documenting features of NetCDF with human readable and writeable features of CSV. It is designed for exchange and preservation of time series data in environmental data repositories.

License: The NEAD specifications are released to the public domain under a Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" international license. You can reuse the information contained herein in any way you want, for any purposes and without restrictions.

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en: indicator-values europe forest-fire european-alps climate-indicators climate-change mountains meteorological-data climate fire

en: Data access

en: This dataset contains the Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980 - 2099 as stated in the paper "Climate change impacts on regional fire weather in heterogeneous landscapes of Central Europe" published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciens (NHESS) 2023. The dataset contains daily Fire Weather Index values for all 50 members (subfolders of the dataset) of the CRCM5-LE (11 km spatial resolution) from 1980 to 2099 over the domain of Hydrological Bavaria. Please cite this dataset as the publication: Miller, J., Böhnisch, A., Ludwig, R., & Brunner, M. I. (2023). Climate change impacts on regional fire weather in heterogeneous landscapes of Central Europe. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 1-25. doi: 10.5194/nhess-2023-51.

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mountains

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educ

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envidat

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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: Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980-2099 derived from the 50 member CRCM5-LE


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

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

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en: Description

en: Description of the predictors provided in this dataset

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)

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soil-mapping

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soil-moisture

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switzerland

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en: land-use-change land-use-transformations spatial-planning land-use-simulations digital-zoning-plans

en: Legend simulated maps

en:
Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "LUSzoning”; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set LUSzoning; 3. The data set LUSzoning.
1. General context of the data set "LUSzoning".
The data set "LUSzoning" stands for Land-use simulations integrating zoning regulations in Spanish functional urban areas. The data set has been generated as part of the CONCUR research project (https://www.wsl.ch/en/projects/concur.html) led by Dr. Anna M. Hersperger and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (ERC TBS Consolidator Grant (ID: BSCGIO 157789) for the period 2016-2021. The CONCUR research project is interdisciplinary and aims to develop a scientific basis for adequately integrating spatial policies (in this case, digital zoning plans) into quantitative land-change modelling approaches at the urban regional level.
2.	Background and aims of the study using the data set “LUSzoning”.
As part of the CONCUR project, a specific task was to integrate planning spatial policies in land-change modelling. Planning can be implemented in modelling using either hard or gradual restrictions. Different studies have addressed the inclusion of spatial planning policies in land-use change modelling. However, the integration of zoning constraints is generally established as hard or Boolean-based restrictions (e.g., whether urban development is allowed or not), while not accounting for the spatial heterogeneity or gradual characteristics within planning zones (e.g., whether planning regulations allow low, medium or high urban density), though these could improve real patterns simulations in urban areas. We assume Spanish General Zoning plans were suitable to explore the integration of planning into land-change modelling as soft constrains because they define land-use intensities in the buildable zoning areas. In light of the above considerations, the overall aim of the study was to model urban land-use changes using a multi-scenario approach that integrates digitized zoning plans for the Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza. The following specific objectives were addressed: i) to analyse the role of planning by defining three future scenarios that integrate digitized zoning plans and one scenario that assumes almost no planning intervention; ii) to introduce zoning constraints that reflect different degrees of urban densities; iii) to generate a transferable spatially-explicit modelling framework to integrate planning into land-use change simulations.
Four future land-use demands scenarios were defined for the FUAs. Storylines were created considering probable development scenarios related to zoning plans, current Spanish legislation and sustainability goals defined along two axes: a high market-oriented vs. high planning-intervention axis, and an axis of short-term economic growth vs. long-term sustainable growth. The sustainable development scenario (S1) is characterized by low gross floor area (GFA) growth that is limited to areas that are currently under development according to zoning plans. The business-as-usual scenario (S2) is characterized by medium GFA growth in the range of on-going trends. The strong development scenario (S3) is characterized by high GFA growth rates. Growth is restricted to buildable areas without urbanization project designated in zoning plans. The unrestricted development scenario (S4) prioritizes a high degree of market liberalization characterized by high GFA growth that surpasses population demands. S4 follows a rapid economic growth pattern with almost no planning intervention.
3.	 The data set “LUSzoning”.
The dataset includes 16 .asc raster layers providing the simulated land-uses under four defined scenarios for Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Zaragoza Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) for 2030. The simulated raster layers were created using CLUMondo simulation framework and have a spatial resolution of 30m. The .asc layers name include the name of the FUA and scenario number. For example, the output from simulating the urban growth for the city of Zaragoza under Scenario 2 is named “Zaragoza_S2.tif”. Furthermore, a .txt file named “Legend.txt” includes the numeric value of the land-use and the category of land-use that represents to interpret the .asc raster layers. The name of the land-use classes is a reclassification of the Urban Atlas 2012 land-use classes within the four Spanish FUAs analyzed.

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en: LUSzoning: Land-use simulations integrating zoning regulations in Spanish functional urban areas


restoring-grassland-multifunctionality

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en: ecosystem-multifunctionality plants restoration fungi soil-biodiversity biodiversity grassland nematodes bacteria mineralization

en: Functional diversity above_belowground fauna

en: Please note that C.sto and Corg have been corrected.

en: Please note that EMF, MF.below, MF.abio and Soil.hetero have been corrected.

en:
Please cite this paper together with the citation for the datafile.

Resch, M. C., Schütz, M., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U., van der Putten, W. H., Zimmermann, S., Risch, A. C. 2021. Evaluating long-term success in grassland restoration – an ecosystem multifunctionality approach. Ecological Applications 31, e02271.

 Study area

The study was conducted in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, in and around two nature reserves Eigental and Altläufe der Glatt (47°27’ to 47°29’ N, 8°37’ to 8°32’ E, 417 to 572 m a.s.l.). All studied grasslands were located with a radius of approximately 4 km. Average monthly temperatures range from 0.7 ± 2.0 °C (January) to 19.0 ± 1.5 °C (July), and monthly precipitation range from 60 ± 42 mm (January) to 118 ± 46 mm (July [maxima]; 1989-2017; MeteoSchweiz 2018). In our study, we focused on semi-dry and semi-wet oligo- to mesotrophic grasslands characterized by high plant species richness and groundwater fluctuations throughout the year (Delarze et al. 2015, see also Resch et al. 2019).

 Experimental design and sampling

A large-scale restoration experiment to expand and reconnect isolated remnants of species-rich grasslands was initiated in the nature reserve Eigental in 1990. Twenty hectares of adjacent intensive grasslands were chosen for restoration. In 1995, three restoration methods of increasing intervention intensities were implemented. The goal of all three methods was to lower the availability of soil nutrients and hence, facilitate ecosystem development towards the targeted nutrient-poor grasslands. These methods were: Harvest only (hay harvest twice a year), Topsoil (removal of the nutrient-rich topsoil), and Topsoil+Propagules (topsoil removal combined with the application of hay from target vegetation). Plant biomass harvest (once a year in late summer/early autumn) commenced in Topsoil and Topsoil+Propagules five years after the soils were removed and is still ongoing today. We measured restoration success by comparing the three restoration methods with intensively managed (Initial) and semi-natural grasslands (Target) 22 years after restoration. Initial grassland sites share the same agricultural history as the restored sites: mowing and subsequent fertilizing (manure) up to five times a year, as well as different tillage regimes (Resch et al. 2019). Target sites were the sites from which hay for seeding the Topsoil+Propagules sites was collected. Soil conditions (i.e., soil types, soil texture) were comparable to those found in the restored grasslands (Resch et al. 2019). Additionally, Target sites were selected to represent a variety of semi-natural grasslands, including semi-dry to semi-wet conditions. In Target grasslands, biomass is harvested once a year in late summer or early autumn. Eleven 5 m x 5 m (25 m2) plots were randomly established in each of the five treatments (in total 55 plots; for a detailed map see Neff et al. 2020). An additional 2 m x 2 m (4 m2) subplot was randomly established at least 2 m away from each 25 m2 plot for destructive sampling. Data sampling took place between June and September 2017.

Vegetation properties

All plant species were identified within the 25 m2 plots (nomenclature: Lauber and Wagner 1996) in mid-June 2017 (in total 250 species). Vegetation structure and plant biomass were assessed diagonally on a transect of 2 m x 10 cm within the 25 m2 plot in early July 2017. We measured the maximum and mean height of the vegetation at the start, middle and end of the transect and calculated the standard deviation of these measures to describe vegetation structural heterogeneity (Schuldt et al. 2019). Thereafter, biomass was clipped on the entire transect to 1 cm height, sorted into five functional groups (graminoids, forbs, legumes, litter, and woody species), dried at 60 °C for 48 h, and weighed (Meyer et al. 2015).

 Aboveground arthropods

Aboveground arthropods were sampled at two locations in each 25 m2 plot in early July 2017 (see also Neff et al. 2020). Briefly, two cylindrical baskets (50 cm diameter, 67 cm height; woven fabric) were thrown simultaneously from outside the plot into two opposite corners. A closable mosquito mesh sleeve was mounted to the top of the baskets and an integrated metal ring at the bottom was fixed to the ground with metal stakes to assure that insects could not escape. A suction sampler (Vortis, Burkhard Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Hertfordshire, England) was then inserted into one of the baskets through the opening of the sleeve and the plot was “vacuumed" twice for 105 seconds with a 30 seconds break. The collected animals were immediately transferred into 70% ethanol. Arthropods were sorted and assigned to 23 taxonomic groups. Holometabolic larvae were lumped into one category while hemimetabolic larvae were grouped separately from adults in the respective taxonomic rank. We used mean values of individuals per plot for total abundance. Aboveground arthropod richness was defined by the number of different taxa to lowest taxonomic level (in total 23 taxa). All taxa were assigned to one of five trophic levels: 1) primary producers, 2) primary consumers, 3) secondary consumers, 4) tertiary consumers, and 5) quaternary consumers.

 Belowground fauna

Sampling of all belowground fauna took place in mid-July 2017. Earthworms were sampled in two 30 cm x 30 cm x 20 cm soil monoliths at two opposite corners of the 25 m2 plot (opposite to aboveground arthropod sampling). The excavated soil monolith was broken by hand, all earthworms collected and immediately transferred in a 4% formaldehyde solution. Thereafter, earthworm individuals were identified to species level (in total 10 taxa; Christian and Zicsi 1999) and species assigned to three functional groups (Bouché 1977).
To assess soil arthropod communities, we randomly collected one undisturbed soil core (5 cm diameter, 12 cm depth) in each 4 m2 subplot with a slide hammer corer lined with a plastic sleeve (AMS Samplers, American Falls, Idaho, USA). Soil arthropods were extracted using Berlese-Tullgren funnels (3 mm mesh), starting the day of sampling and lasting 14 days. Individuals were stored in 70% ethanol. Soil arthropods were assigned to 41 taxonomic groups and 4 feeding types. Holometabolic and hemimetabolic larvae were treated as previously described for aboveground arthropods. Belowground arthropod richness refers to the 41 taxonomic groups.

For soil nematode sampling, we randomly collected eight soil cores of 2.2 cm diameter (Giddings Machine Company, Windsor, CO, USA) within each 4 m2 subplot to a depth of 12 cm. The eight cores were combined, gently homogenized, placed in coolers, kept at 4 °C and transported to the laboratory at NIOO in Wageningen (NL) within one week after collection. Free-living nematodes were extracted from 200 g of fresh soil using Oostenbrink elutriator (Oostenbrink 1960) and prepared for morphological identification and quantification as described by Resch et al. (2019). Nematodes were identified to family level (39 taxa) according to Bongers (1988), assigned to 17 functional groups, 5 feeding types and 5 colonizer-persister (C-P) classes (Yeates et al. 1993, Bongers 1990, Resch et al. 2019).

We randomly collected two more soil cores (2.2 cm diameter x 12 cm depth) within each 4 m2 subplot to determine soil microbial communities. Again, the soil cores were combined, homogenized, placed in coolers and transported to the laboratory at WSL in Birmensdorf (Switzerland) where the metagenomic DNA was extracted from 8 g sieved soil (2 mm) using the DNeasy PowerMax Soil Kit (Quiagen, Hilden, NRW, GER) according to the manufacturer`s instructions. PCR amplification of the V3-V4 region of the prokaryotic small-subunit (16S) and the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS2) of eukaryotes was performed with 1 ng of template DNA utilizing PCR primers and conditions as previously described (Frey et al., 2016). PCRs were run in triplicates and pooled. The pooled amplicons were sent to the Genome Quebec Innovation Centre (Montreal, QC, Canada) for barcoding using the Fluidigm Access Array technology (Fluidigm) and paired-end sequencing on the Illumina MiSeq v3 platform (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, USA). Quality filtering, clustering into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and taxonomic assignment were performed as described by Frey et al. (2016) and Adamczyk et al. (2019). We used a customised pipeline largely based on UPARSE (Edgar 2013) implemented in USEARCH v. 9.2 (Edgar 2010). After discarding singletons of dereplicated sequences, clustering into OTUs with 97% sequence similarity was performed (Edgar 2013). Quality-filtered reads were mapped on the filtered set of centroid sequences. Taxonomic classification of prokaryotic and fungal sequences was conducted querying against most recent versions of SILVA (v.132, Quast et al. 2013) and UNITE (v.8, Nilsson et al. 2018). Only taxonomic assignments with confidence rankings equal or higher than 0.8 were accepted (assignments below 0.8 set to unclassified). Prokaryotic OTUs assigned to mitochondria or chloroplasts as well as eukaryotic OTUs assigned other than fungi were removed prior to data analysis. In addition, prokaryotic and fungal datasets were filtered to discard singletons and doubletons. Thereafter, OTU abundance matrices were rarefied to the lowest number of sequences per community, to normalize the total number of reads and achieve parity between samples (Prokaryota: 29,843 reads; Fungi: 26,690 reads). Finally, prokaryotic and fungal observed richness (number of OTUs) were estimated (Prokaryota: 14,010 OTUs; Fungi: 5,813 OTUs). For prokaryotes, we distinguished five and for fungi six functional types based on lowest taxonomic resolution (Nguyen et al. 2016, Tedersoo et al. 2014). Belowground taxon richness was defined by the total number of earthworm, arthropod, nematode, fungi, and prokaryote taxa assigned to lowest taxonomic level. Finally, all belowground taxa were assigned to the same five trophic levels as the aboveground arthropods.

 Soil chemical and physical properties, soil nitrogen mineralization

We randomly collected three 5 cm diameter x 12 cm depth soil samples in each 4 m2 subplot with a slide hammer corer (AMS Samplers, American Falls, Idaho, USA), pooled them and then made two subsamples. One was field-fresh and stored at 3 °C until analysis, the other was dried for 48 h at 60 °C and passed through a 4 mm mesh. From the dried sample, we measured soil pH potentiometrically in 0.01 M CaCl2 (soil:solution ratio=1:2; 30 minutes equilibration time). Total and organic carbon content were measured on fine-ground samples (≤ 0.5 mm) by dry combustion using a CN analyzer NC 2500 (CE Instruments, Wigan, United Kingdom). Inorganic carbon of samples with a pH > 6.5 was removed with acid vapor prior to analysis of organic carbon (Walthert et al. 2010). We calculated total soil carbon (C) storage after correcting its content for soil depth, stone content and density of fine earth (see below). Exchangeable cations were determined on another 5 g dry soil sample with 50 mL unbuffered 1 M NH4Cl solution (soil:solution ratio=1:10, end-over-end shaker for 1.5 hours) and measured by an ICP-OES (Optima 7300 DV, Perkin-Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA). Thereafter, cation exchange capacity (CEC) was calculated as the sum of exchangeable cations and protons (and expressed as mmolc per 1 kg soil) and used to describe nutrient retention capacity in our plots. Concentrations of exchangeable protons were calculated as the difference between total and Al-induced exchangeable acidity as determined by the KCl-method (Thomas 1982).

Ammonium (NH4+) and nitrate (NO3−) were extracted from a 20 g fresh subsample with 80 mL 1M KCl for 1.5 hours on an end-over-end shaker and filtered through ashless folded filter paper (DF 5895 150, ALBET LabScience, Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH, Dassel, Germany). NH4+ concentrations were determined colorimetrically by automated flow injection analysis (FIAS 300, Perkin-Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA). NO3− concentrations were measured colorimetrically according to Norman and Stucki (1981). Potential soil net nitrogen (N) mineralization was assessed during an 8-week incubation period under controlled moisture (60% of field capacity), temperature (20 °C) and light conditions (dark) in the laboratory. We weighed duplicate samples of fresh soil equivalent to 8 g dry soil (24 h at 104 °C) into 50 mL Falcon tubes. Soil samples were extracted for NH4+ and NO3− at the beginning and after eight weeks as described above. Soil net N mineralization was calculated as the difference between the inorganic nitrogen (NH4+ and NO3−) before and after the incubation (Hart et al. 1994), corrected for the total incubation time and represented per day values expressed as mg N kg-1 soil d-1.

To assess soil physical properties, we randomly collected one undisturbed soil core per 4 m2 subplot (5 cm diameter, 12 cm depth) in a steel cylinder that fit into the slide hammer (AMS Samplers, American Falls, Idaho, USA). The cylinder was capped in the field to avoid disturbance. We then measured field capacity in the laboratory. For this purpose, the cylinder and soil therein were saturated in a water bath and drained on a sand/silt-bed with a suction corresponding to 60 cm hydrostatic head. The moist soil was dried at 105 °C to constant weight. Field capacity was calculated by dividing the mass of water by the total mass of wet soil contained at 60 cm hydrostatic head and used to describe water holding capacity. Thereafter, samples were passed through a 4 mm mesh. Fine-earth and skeleton fractions were weighed separately to assess bulk soil density (fine-earth plus skeleton), density of fine earth, and proportion of skeleton. Particle density was determined with the pycnometer method (Blake and Hartge 1986), and total porosity and proportion of fine pores were calculated (Danielson and Sutherland 1986). Clay, silt, and sand contents were quantified with the sediment method (Gee and Bauder 1986).

Surface and soil temperature (12 cm depth, water-resistant digital pocket thermometer; IP65, H-B Instrument, Trappe, Pennsylvania, USA) as well as volumetric soil moisture content (12 cm depth, time domain reflectometry; Field-Scout TDR 300, Spectrum Technologies, Aurora, Illinois, USA) were measured at five random locations within the 4 m2 subplots every month from June to September. We calculated the standard deviation of each temperature and moisture measure over four months to describe seasonal variations. Slope inclination was determined at plot-level via GPS measurements (GPS 1200, Leica Geosystem, Heerbrugg, Switzerland) and categorized into slope gradient classes according to FAO standards (1990). Thickness of the topsoil horizon (equivalent to Ah or Aa horizon) was determined at one soil monolith (30 x 30 x 30 cm3) per 4 m2 subplot in cm and rounded to next integer.

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Neff, F., M. C. Resch, A. Marty, J. Rolley, M. Schütz, A. C. Risch, and M. M. Gossner. 2020. Long-term restoration success of insect herbivore communities in semi-natural grasslands – a functional approach. Ecological Applications 0:e02133

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Nilsson, R. H., K.-H. Larsson, A. F. S. Taylor, J. Bengtsson-Palme, T. S. Jeppesen, D. Schigel, P. G. Kennedy, K. Picard, F. O. Glöckner, L. Tedersoo, I. Saar, U. Kõljalg, and K. Abarenkov. 2018. The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications. Nucleic Acids Research 47:259–264.

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Schuldt, A., A. Ebeling, M. Kunz, M. Staab, C. Guimarães-Steinicke, D. Bachmann, N. Buchmann, W. Durka, A. Fichtner, F. Fornoff, W. Härdtle, L. R. Hertzog, A-N. Klein, C. Roscher, J. Schaller, von G. Oheimb, A. Weigelt, W. Weisser, C.Wirth, J. Zhang, H. Bruelheide, and N. Eisenhauer. 2019. Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems. Nature Communications 10:1460.

Tedersoo, L., M. Bahram, S. Põlme, U. Kõljalg, N. S. Yorou, R. Wijesundera, L. Villarreal Ruiz, A. M. Vasco-Palacios, P. Q. Thu, A. Suija, M. E. Smith, C. Sharp, E. Saluveer, A. Saitta, M. Rosas, T. Riit, D. Ratkowsky, K. Pritsch, K. Põldmaa, M. Piepenbring, C. Phosri, M. Peterson, K. Parts, K. Pärtel, E. Otsing, E. Nouhra, A. L. Njouonkou, R. H. Nilsson, L. N. Morgado, J. Mayor, T. W. May, L. Majuakim, D. J. Lodge, S. See Lee, K.-H. Larsson, P. Kohout, K. Hosaka, I. Hiiesalu, T. W. Henkel, H. Harend, L.-D. Guo, A. Greslebin, G. Grelet, J. Geml, G. Gates, W. Dunstan, C. Dunk, R. Frenkhan, L. Dearnaley, A. De Kesel, T. Dang, X. Chen, F. Buegger, F. Q. Brearley, G. Bonito, S. Anslan, S. Abell, and K. Abarenkov. 2014. Global diversity and geography of soil fungi. Science 346:1256688.

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soil-biodiversity

display_name: soil-biodiversity

en: Restoring grassland multifunctionality


en: forest-management species-migration spatial-modelling land-use bioclimatic-variables forest-dynamics forest example-applications treemig r-package climate-change

media_type: application/pdf

en: A condensed instruction for running the presented simulations.

format: PDF

en: R-script to install the TreeMig framework and start the graphical user interface

en: Where the environmental and land use input data come from and how they were processed

en:
1) Simulation environment TMEnvironmentExampleApplications for the simulation of the case study applications. It contains a) simulation settings (folder C), b) species parameters (folder P), c) folders S, R and P for the state files and results and plots to be produced, and the binaries of the TreeMig model.
2) Input data for Switzerland in TMInputData (Climate, soil, land cover, DEM)
3) Several R scripts (folder Scripts) to run and plot the simulations directly from R without having to use the graphical user interface.
For learning how to use TreeMig we recommend the starter kit https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.533.

en:
The [TreeMig framework](https://treemig.wsl.ch/en/) allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental and land use conditions.
Here, case study examples in Switzerland are given that simulate the dynamics and spatial spread of competing tree species in a region in Switzerland, the invasion of a hypothetical invasive tree species, and the control of this species via a management model coupled to TreeMig. The datasets consist of the installation- and GUI starting-script, example environmental input data for Switzerland, the simulation environment, and further R-scripts for running the simulations and plotting the simulation results directly from R and for coupling TreeMig to the forest management model.

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example-applications

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forest-dynamics

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forest-management

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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: Case study applications demonstrating the use and potential of the TreeMig framework v1


maintainer: Christoph Marty

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

en: Synthesis report chapter

mimetype: application/pdf

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.

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hydrology

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snow

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snowfall

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water-cycle

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en: Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate


en: graubunden switzerland alpine3d-simulations climate-change snow

en: Configuration file

en: Simulation data

en: Reference data as well as the 2050 and 2099 scenarios for ARPEGE and ETHZ other RCMs available on demand)

en:
This is the simulation dataset from _"Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland"_, M. Bavay, T. Grünewald, M. Lehning, Advances in Water Resources 55, 4-16, 2013

A model study on the impact of climate change on snow cover and runoff has been conducted for the Swiss Canton of Graubünden. The model Alpine3D has been forced with the data from 35 Automatic Weather Stations in order to investigate snow and runoff dynamics for the current climate. The data set has then been modified to reflect climate change as predicted for the 2021-2050 and 2070-2095 periods from an ensemble of regional climate models.

The predicted changes in snow cover will be moderate for 2021-2050 and become drastic in the second half of the century. Towards the end of the century the snow cover changes will roughly be equivalent to an elevation shift of 800 m. Seasonal snow water equivalents will decrease by one to two thirds and snow seasons will be shortened by five to nine weeks in 2095.

Small, higher elevation catchments will show more winter runoff, earlier spring melt peaks and reduced summer runoff. Where glacierized areas exist, the transitional increase in glacier melt will initially offset losses from snow melt. Larger catchments, which reach lower elevations will show much smaller changes since they are already dominated by summer precipitation.

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switzerland

display_name: switzerland

en: Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden


carabid-beetles-in-forests

title_for_slug: carabid-beetles-in-forests

en: trapping coleoptera insects carabidae running-beetles arthropoda forest

en: SQL query used to extract the data from fauna database.

en: Data query used on Fauna Database to retrieve the submitted data.

en: Data extract in TAB-delimted format. First row is header, first column is counter.

en: Tab-delimited data of the according sql query.

en:
Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types.

Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract 2019-11-22_18-11-24 WSL-Forest-Carabidae') contains additional data field PROJ_FALLENBEZEICHNUNG.

Data are provided on request to contact person against bilateral agreement.

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insects

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running-beetles

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display_name: trapping

en: Carabid beetles in forests


maintainer: Ueli Reber

en: environmental--policy biodiversity policy-analysis switzerland policy-documents text-corpus bgb

en: Replication files

en:
 Introduction

The ZIP file contains all data and code to replicate the analyses reported in the following paper.

Reber, U., Fischer, M., Ingold, K., Kienast, F., Hersperger, A. M., Grütter, R., & Benz, R. (2022). Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics. *Policy Sciences*. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-022-09456-4](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-022-09456-4)

If you use any of the material included in this repository, please refer to the paper. If you use (parts of) the text corpus, please also refer to the sources used for its compilation listed below. The content of the texts may not be changed.

 Data folder

The data folder contains the following files.

* _corpus.parquet_: Text corpus of Swiss policy documents
* _dict_de.csv_: Biodiversity dictionary (German)
* _dict_fr.csv_: Biodiversity dictionary (French)
* _dict_it.csv_: Biodiversity dictionary (Italian)
* _topic_labels.csv_: labels/codes for policy sectors
* _topics.csv_: labels/codes for policy sectors

The corpus and the dictionary were compiled by the authors specifically for this project. The labels/codes for policy sectors are based on the [coding scheme](http://ws-old.parlament.ch/affairs/topics) of the Swiss Parliament.

 Text corpus

The text corpus consists of 439,984 Swiss policy documents in German, French, and Italian from 1999 to 2018. The corpus was compiled from the following source between 2020-10-01 and 2021-01-31.

* Transcripts and parliamentary businesses (e.g. questions, motions, parliamentary initiatives) via the [Web Services (WS)](https://www.parlament.ch/de/%C3%BCber-das-parlament/fakten-und-zahlen/open-data-web-services) provided by the Swiss Parliament
* The official compilation of federal legislation ("Amtliche Sammlung", AS) via [opendata.swiss](https://opendata.swiss/de/dataset/official-compilation-of-federal-legislation-bs-as-1947-2018) provided by the Swiss Federal Archives (SFA)
* The federal gazette ("Bundesblatt") via [fedlex.admin.ch](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/de/fga/index)
* Decisions of federal courts via [entscheidsuche.ch (ES)](https://entscheidsuche.ch/)

The corpus is stored in a single data frame to use with R saved as [PARQUET](https://parquet.apache.org/) file (corpus.parquet). The data frame has the following structure.

* _text_id_: Unique identifier for each text (source information as prefix, e.g. "t_")
* _doc_type_: Document type (see coding scheme below)
* _branch_: Government branche (1 legislative, 2 executive, 3 judicative)
* _stage_: Stage of policy process (1 drafting, 2 introduction, 3 interpretation)
* _year_: Year of publication
* _topic_: Policy sector (coding scheme in separate file in data folder)
* _lang_: Language (de, fr, it)
* _text_: Text

The following list contains the coding scheme for the doc_type variable.

* 101: Federal gazette // Draft for public consultation ("Vernehmlassungsverfahren")
* 102: Federal gazette // Explanation of draft for parliament ("Botschaft")
* 103: Federal gazette // Strategy, action plan
* 104: Federal gazette // Federal council decree ("Bundesratsbeschluss")
* 105: Federal gazette // (Simple) Federal decree ("(Einfacher) Bundesbeschluss")
* 106: Federal gazette // General decree ("Allgemeinverfügung")
* 107: Federal gazette // Treaty ("Übereinkommen")
* 108: Federal gazette // Treaty ("Abkommen")
* 109: Federal gazette // Draft for parliament ("Entwurf")
* 110: Federal gazette // Report ("Bericht")
* 111: Federal gazette // Report of parliamentary comission ("Bericht")
* 112: Federal gazette // Report of federal council ("Bericht")
* 201: Parl. businesses // Submitted text
* 202: Parl. businesses // Reason text
* 203: Parl. businesses // Federal council response
* 204: Parl. businesses // Initial situation
* 205: Parl. businesses // Proceedings
* 301: Parl. transcripts // Speech of MP
* 302: Parl. transcripts // Speech of federal council
* 401: Federal legislation // Legal text of the official compilation (law, ordinances, etc.)
* 501: Court decisions // Federal Supreme Court
* 502: Court decisions // Federal Criminal Court
* 503: Court decisions // Federal Administrative Court

 Code folder

The code folder contains all R code for the analyses. The files are numbered chronologically.

* _1_classifier_training.R_: Training of classifiers for classification of policy sectors
* _2_classifier_application.R_: Classification of documents in corpus
* _3_dictionary_application.R_: Biodiversity indexing of documents in corpus
* _4_stm_truncation.R_: Truncation of indexed documents to keep only relevant parts
* _5_stm_translation.R_: Translation of FR and IT documents to DE
* _6_stm_model.R_: Preprocesssing and structural topic model
* _7_plots.R_: Plots and numbers as included in the paper

The code/functions folder contains custom functions used in the scripts, e.g. to support topic model interpretation.

Package versions and setup details are noted in the code files.

 Contact

Please direct any questions to Ueli Reber (ueli.reber@eawag.ch).

bgb

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biodiversity

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environmental--policy

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policy-analysis

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policy-documents

display_name: policy-documents

text-corpus

display_name: text-corpus

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: Replication files for "Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics"


en: ecosystem-functions microbial-respiration beta-diversity microbial-biodiversity soil-respiration

en: Fungal amplicon sequencing

en: Fungal ASVs and taxonomic tables

en: Microbial functions and metadata

en: Extracellular enzyme activities, respiration and sites metadata

en: Bacterial amplicon sequencing

en: Bacterial ASVs and taxonomic tables

en: Structural and functional changes of microbial communities in ephemeral stream sediments and adjacent soils between was assessed in an artificial newly created catchment at 3 and 13 years after catchment construction. Bacterial and fungal communities, respiration and extracellular enzyme activities were assessed.

beta-diversity

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ecosystem-functions

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microbial-biodiversity

display_name: microbial-biodiversity

microbial-respiration

display_name: microbial-respiration

soil-respiration

display_name: soil-respiration

en: Chicken Creek 10 years


en: fungi database fauna conservation red-list lichens soil-dependency info-fauna eco-fauna soil-organisms soil-biodiversity soil-quality ecosystem-protection

en: Raw dataset of species and their soil dependency as well as endangerment status.

en: Proportion of endangered species grouped by the four soil dependency classes.

en: Overview over the soil dependency and endangerment status of different groups of organisms.

en:
This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

Paper Citation:
Frey B., Maurer C., Schneider K. (2023) Informationen zum Boden anhand der Gebundenheit der Rote-Liste Arten BAFU. Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU. 26 p.

Please cite this paper together with the citation for the datafile.

Soil is the habitat and basis of life for countless creatures. The great importance of soil organisms for the fertility of our soils is widely recognized, but information is sparse on their distribution and possible endangerment in Switzerland. In the present project, target species, i.e. species that are closely linked to the soil, were identified, and for the the first time, information was gathered on the degree of endangerment of the soil ecosystem in Switzerland on the basis of Red List species. For eleven Red List groups, the species' soil dependency was determined, i.e. whether their life cycle includes stages in or on the soil. The assessment of soil dependency was made using four classes, which enabled the classification not only of insects but also of vertebrates, land snails, lichens and fungi.

conservation

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database

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eco-fauna

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ecosystem-protection

display_name: ecosystem-protection

fauna

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fungi

display_name: fungi

info-fauna

display_name: info-fauna

lichens

display_name: lichens

red-list

display_name: red-list

soil-biodiversity

display_name: soil-biodiversity

soil-dependency

display_name: soil-dependency

soil-organisms

display_name: soil-organisms

soil-quality

display_name: soil-quality

en: Information on soil based on the soil dependency of the FOEN red list species


maintainer: Nander Wever

en: longwave-radiation wind-direction wind-speed snow-ice-temperature shortwave-radiation air-temperature precipitation-amount snow-depth humidity

en: Undercatch correction

en: This document describes how the undercatch correction for the Weissfluhjoch measurement site was determined.

en: SNOWPACK ini file (old syntax)

en: This ini-file can be used to run SNOWPACK simulations with the WFJ data set, using version 3.4.0 or higher.

en: SNOWPACK ini file (new syntax)

en: This ini-file can be used to run SNOWPACK simulations with the WFJ data set, using the new MeteoIO Filter, Generator and Interpolation syntax.

en: Version 3

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

Bug fix: in version 2, the undercatch correction was not applied correctly

Bug fix: in version 2, snow lysimeter data was missing for extended periods of time

Update: dataset extended to 2016-01-02T00:30

Update: refreshing data originating from MeteoSwiss (particularly precipitation)

en: Version 4

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

Update: dataset extended to 2016-09-02T00:30

Update: refreshing data originating from MeteoSwiss (particularly precipitation)

en: Version 1

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

First release of dataset.

en: Version 7 (current)

en:
Release notes:

Bug fix: in previous versions, snow lysimeter data from September 2010 onwards was erroneously reported for UTC+2, instead of UTC+1 (i.e., reported one hour later than should have been).

Update: dataset extended to 2017-07-11T00:30.

en: Version 5

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

Update: using the incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation data from the new processing chain from 2010 onwards, filling also data gaps in pre-2010 data.

Update: dataset extended to 2016-10-04T00:30

Update: refreshing data originating from MeteoSwiss (particularly precipitation)

en: All versions

en: Version 6

en:
Deprecated version.

Release notes:

- Missing ISWR for 2009-09-30 and 2010-04-30 has been replaced by data from WFJ Gipfel

This dataset is the basis for the Weissfluhjoch dataset in ESM-SnowMIP (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.16904/16).

en: Version 2

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

Bug fix: in v1, incoming radiation components were taken from WFJ_Gipfel station, instead of WFJ Versuchsfeld.

en: SNOWPACK sno file

en: This sno-file can be used to run SNOWPACK simulations with the WFJ data set, using version 3.4.0 or higher.

en:
Dataset of meteorological and snowpack measurements from the automatic weather station at Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, suitable for driving snowpack models. The dataset contains standard meteorological measurements, and additionally snowpack runoff data from a snow lysimeter. Where possible, data is quality checked and missing data are replaced from backup sensors from the measurement site itself, or (in only a few cases) from the MeteoSwiss weather station at 470 m distance and 150 m above the measurement site.

Publication
Wever, N., Schmid, L., Heilig, A., Eisen, O., Fierz, C., and Lehning, M. Verification of the multi-layer SNOWPACK model with different water transport schemes. 2015. The Cryosphere. Volume 9. 2271-2293. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2271-2015.

air-temperature

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longwave-radiation

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precipitation-amount

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shortwave-radiation

display_name: shortwave-radiation

snow-depth

display_name: snow-depth

snow-ice-temperature

display_name: snow-ice-temperature

wind-direction

display_name: wind-direction

wind-speed

display_name: wind-speed

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: WFJ_MOD: Meteorological and snowpack measurements from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland


maintainer: Roksolana Petrovska

en: mortality-rate dominance acer shade-tolerance lar regeneration fagus

en: The R-script of survival analysis for accelerated failure time model

en: Mortality of regeneration

media_type: text/csv

en: Acer platanoides, Acer pseudoplatanus and Fagus sylvatica living and dead juveniles (0-500 cm in height) grown in the deep shade of a prime beech-dominated forest.

format: CSV

en:
 One individual per species, vitality class (low and high) and height class (eight classes: 0–10, 11–20, 21–35, 36–60, 61–90, 91–130, 131–200 and 201–500 cm) was randomly selected and harvested in each of the six plots. This resulted in a sample of 82, 80 and 89 living individuals of A. platanoides, A. pseudoplatanus and F. sylvatica, respectively.

 Additionally stems of dead Acer spp. and F. sylvatica trees that had died within the last three years (2015–2018) were randomly harvested, matching the height classes of the harvested living trees wherever possible. In total, 179 dead young trees (60 A. platanoides, 72 A. pseudoplatanus and 47 F. sylvatica) were collected.

 Variables:
* species_code: a_pla - Acer platanoides, a_pse - Acer pseudoplatanus, f_syl - Fagus sylvatica
* species: as above
* dummy: 0 - living individual, 1 - dead individual
* LAR_cm2_g: leaf area ratio or ratio of leaf area to total plant biomass, [cm2/g]
* tree_age: in years
* avg_ring_micron: average width of the last 5 rings in tree life excluding the last ring
* dry_mass_g: aboveground and belowground biomass
* DLI: direct light index (measured only under living individuals)
* BLI: diffuse light index (measured only under living individuals)
* GLI: global light index

acer

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dominance

display_name: dominance

fagus

display_name: fagus

lar

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mortality-rate

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regeneration

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shade-tolerance

display_name: shade-tolerance

en: Mortality of regeneration: Acer spp. and Fagus sylvatica


en: fsm2trans hicar fsm2 dischma snowpack snow-hydrology

en: Input data november 2016 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data March 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en:
time series of daily averages of the whole domain for each simulation run
- rainfall
- snowfall
- runoff
- snowmelt
- temperature

en: Input data May 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data July 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data October 2016 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data January 2017 COSD

en: Input data November 2016 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data June 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data January 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data April 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data october 2016 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data May 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data July 2017 COSD

en: Input data December 2016 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data November 2016 HICAR 50m resolution

en: input data october 2016 COSD

en: Input data March 2017 COSD

en: Input data July 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data June 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data March 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data February 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: input data november 2016 COSD

en: Input data June 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data July 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Available input files for running with FSM2trans

en: Input data June 2017 COSD

en: Input data october 2016 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data May 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data February 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data April 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en:
snowheight output of validation days (LiDAR days) for all simulation runs
- 20.03.2027
- 31.03.2017
- 17.05.2017

en: Input data April 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data March 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data February 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data January 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data December 2016 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data December 2016 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data January 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en:
 DESCRIPTION
The dataset is used to run snowpack simulations with various forcing data at different resolutions with the Flexible Snow Model (FSM2oshd). A dynamical downscaling model (HICAR) and a semi-statistical downscaling approach (COSD) are used to downscale COSMO data to resolutions of 250 m, 100 m and 50 m. Simulations are run with the operational snow cover model and a model extension including wind- and gravity-induced snow redistribution (FSM2trans).
 Input Data
This paragraph describes the input data used to run simulations with FSM2trans
 HICAR
The HICAR input data is created by the High-resolution Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research model. The input data is available for different resolutions (250m, 100m and 50m) for a domain covering complex terrain in the Swiss Alps (Dischma)
 COSD
The COSD data was statistically downscaled within the OSHD framework to different resolutions (250m, 100m, 50m) for a domain covering complex terrain in the Swiss Alps (Dischma)
 Simulation files
For the Simulations, a landuse file and a namelist file with the parametrizations need to be supplied to the model
 simulation output
This simulation output that is used for the analysis of the study is provided.

en: FSM2trans snowpack simulations with HICAR input


en: biological-invasions computer-vision artificial-intelligence plants automatic-detection invasive-species

en: Detected occurrences of Ailanthus altissima along highways on the Swiss Plateau. To reduce false-positives, only images in which the species was recognized in at least three of 16 image tiles are considered as occurrences (Fig. 38 in the report). Image coordinates of the middle and side strips can be displayed separately in the interactive map.

en: Detected occurrences of Senecio inaequidens along highways on the Swiss Plateau. To reduce false-positives, only images in which the species was recognized in at least three of 16 image tiles are considered as occurrences (Fig. 40 in the report). Image coordinates of the middle and side strips can be displayed separately in the interactive map.

en: Detected occurrences of Senecio inaequidens along highways on the Swiss Plateau. The number of image tiles in which the species was recognized is shown (Fig. 25 in the report). Image coordinates of the middle and side strips can be displayed separately in the interactive map.

en: Detected occurrences of Ailanthus altissima along highways on the Swiss Plateau. The number of image tiles in which the species was recognized is shown (Fig. 23 in the report). Image coordinates of the middle and side strips can be displayed separately in the interactive map.

en:
Transport infrastructure such as **highways** are important corridors for the spread of invasive species. In this project, an automated detection and mapping of **two invasive alien plant species** was developed and applied along highways in the **Swiss Central Plateau**, based on **artificial intelligence (AI, Deep Learning)**. The two target species are **tree of heaven *(Ailanthus altissima)*** and **narrow-leaved ragwort *(Senecio inaequidens)***.
The data is part of the project report and shows the mapping results in **interactive maps**. Technically speaking, these are **self-contained HTML files** that can be displayed with standard web browsers. To reduce the file size, the downloads are provided in zip format.
**Report**: [https://www.mobilityplatform.ch/de/research-data-shop/product/1690](https://www.mobilityplatform.ch/de/research-data-shop/product/1690)
**Project**: [https://www.wsl.ch/en/projects/automated-detection-of-invasive-alien-plants-along-highways/](https://www.wsl.ch/en/projects/automated-detection-of-invasive-alien-plants-along-highways/)

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automatic-detection

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biological-invasions

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invasive-species

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plants

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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: Automated detection of invasive alien plants along highways


maintainer: Rebecca Mott

en: dischmex turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes snow-patch patchy-snow-covers eddy-covariance-measurements

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific Inc.) in 1.7 m on a daily basis.

en: Output explanation

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (DA-600, Kaijo-Denki) in 0.3 m on a daily basis.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific, Inc.) in 2.2 m.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific Inc.) in 3.2 m on a daily basis.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (R.M. Young Company) in 3.5 m.

en: Gletschboden setup

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en: Background map based on data © 2014/2016 swisstopo (JD100042)

format: PNG

mimetype: image/png

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (R.M. Young Company) in 0.7 m.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific, Inc.) in 2.6 m.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (R.M. Young Company) in 3.3 m.

en:
This dataset contains eddy-covariance measurements in the ablation period of 2014-2016. Measurements were taken from two turbulence towers over a long-lasting snow patch, which are 5 m apart from each other (2014 and 2015). The turbulence towers were equipped with two YOUNG ultrasonic anemometers mounted 0.7 m (in 2014) and 3.3 m (in 2015) above snow-free ground, two ultrasonic anemometers (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific, Inc.) mounted at 2.6 m (in 2014) and 2.2 m (in 2015) above snow-free ground and one anemometer (DA-600, Kaijo Denki) mounted at 0.3 m above snow surface.

The measurement setup changed in 2016 and includes a measurement above the snow-free ground in upwind direction (Swiss coordinates: 790191/176689). The measurement tower is equipped with one ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific, Inc.) in 3.3 m above the snow-free ground. Additionally, one measurement tower is installed above the long-Lasting snow patch and equipped with the same setup as 2015.

Turbulence data were sampled at a frequency of 20 Hz. The processing of the data to quality controlled fluxes has been done with the Biomicrometeorology flux software (Thomas et al., 2009). The program applies plausibility tests and a despiking test after Vickers and Mahrt (1997) on the measured data. The routine further applies a time-lag correction and considers the deployment (e.g. the sonic azimuth). A frequency response correction (Moore, 1986) is done and a three-dimensional rotation is performed. Finally, quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) flags after Foken et al., (2004) are issued and fast Fourier transform power and co-spectra are calculated. The change in snow height is considered in the post-processing for every measurement day. The turbulence data were averaged to 30 minute intervals.

dischmex

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eddy-covariance-measurements

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patchy-snow-covers

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snow-patch

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turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes

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en: DISCHMEX - Impact of extreme land-surface heterogeneity on micrometeorology over spring snow-cover


en: compression-experiments x-ray-tomography snow-mechanics microstructure snow

en: Snowmicroquakes Data

en: Compression experiments, X-ray images and simulation data with supplemented README file

en: README

en: README file explaining the organization of the data

en:
When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments of snow at different strain rates and concurrent X-ray tomography imaging documenting this feature.

The experiments were conducted in a micro-compression stage operated in the X-ray tomography scanner in the SLF cold laboratory. The dataset comprises the compression force data of 17 compression experiments, the 3D image data from 4 X-ray tomography scans and the results of numerical simulations.

compression-experiments

display_name: compression-experiments

microstructure

display_name: microstructure

snow

display_name: snow

snow-mechanics

display_name: snow-mechanics

x-ray-tomography

display_name: x-ray-tomography

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes


en: fish environmental-dna marine caribbean-region fish-composition edna coral-reefs curacao teleo

en: Data access

en:
Fish taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic composition variations recovered from eDNA metabarcoding along the coast of Curacao

In February 2020, we collected a total of 20 water samples, from 10 stations, with two filtration replicates per station, in the two investigated coastal areas. Each station consisted of a transect of 2 km at an overall constant distance from the coast. We recorded the GPS coordinates at the start and end of the transect, which we used to map the transect positions. We conducted eDNA sampling by using a filtration device composed of an Athena® peristaltic pump (Proactive Environmental Products LLC, Bradenton, Florida, USA; nominal flow of 1.0 L/min), a VigiDNA® 0.20 μM cross-flow filtration capsule (SPYGEN, le Bourget du Lac, France) and disposable sterile tubing for each filtration capsule. We performed two filtration replicates in parallel on each side of a boat, at each station, for 30 min corresponding to a volume of ~30 L of water filtered by each capsule. At the end of each filtration, the water inside the capsules was emptied, and we filled the capsules with 80 ml of CL1 Conservation buffer (SPYGEN, le Bourget du Lac, France) and stored at room temperature. We followed a strict contamination control protocol in both field and laboratory stages (Valentini et al., 2016). Each water sample processing included the use of disposable gloves and single-use filtration equipment to avoid any risk of contamination. Libraries were prepared with ligation using the MetaFast protocol (Fasteris).

caribbean-region

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coral-reefs

display_name: coral-reefs

curacao

display_name: curacao

edna

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environmental-dna

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fish

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fish-composition

display_name: fish-composition

marine

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teleo

display_name: teleo

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: Environmental DNA Marine Curacao 2020


en: edna marseille teleo mediterraneaen fish-composition marine

en: Please use cyberduck to download for the moment

en:
Description: Fish environmental DNA data set collected in 2022 in the Calanques National Park
The eDNA samples were collected in 2022 in two locations (Moyades, M−FPA and “Impérial du large”, I-LPA), during the winter (January- February), the summer (June to August)and fall (mid-September to November) seasons, with the sampling dates depending on the weather conditions. For the M−FPA, samples were collected between Moyades island and Riou island, while for the I-LPA, they were collected on the south side of the “Impérial du large” island. To account for the existing bathymetry, in the M−FPA the samples were taken at two sampling sites with depths of 20 and 40 m, while in the I-LPA they were taken at two sites with depths of 20 and 80 m.
At each site, in-situ filtration of seawater was performed using a double-head submersible pump (Subspace, Geneva, Switzerland; nominal flow of ca. 1 L/min) strapped to an underwater scooter with 2 VigiDNA 0.20 µm filtration capsules (SPYGEN, le Bourget du Lac, France), along with disposable sterile tubing. The samples were collected along two horizontal transects (up to 400 m in length) during each closed-circuit rebreather dive, enabling the filtration of a water volume of 15 L/filter per depth, as close as possible to the substrate. Two filter replicates were collected by two divers at each sampling site, except in two cases where bad weather conditions or logistical issues meant that only one replicate was sampled.
After the filtration, the remaining seawater was emptied from the capsule back on the boat and replaced by a 80 mL CL1 conservation buffer (SPYGEN, le Bourget du Lac, France). To prevent any contamination, a strict protocol was followed during the entire process, requiring disposable gloves and single-use filtration equipment. Finally, the samples were stored at room temperature. We followed a strict contamination control protocol in both field and laboratory stages. Each water sample processing included the use of disposable gloves and single-use filtration equipment to avoid any risk of contamination. Libraries were prepared with ligation using the MetaFast protocol (Fasteris).
Data content:
	* rawdata/: contains the raw reads for each individual sample. One archive contains the paired-end reads specified by the _R1 or _R2 suffix as well as individually tagged PCR replicates (if available) together with an archive containing all extraction and PCR blank samples of the library. Reads have been demultiplexed using cutadapt but not trimmed, individual demultiplexing tags and primers remain present in the sequences.
	* taxadata/: contains the table with all detected taxonomy for each sample after bioinformatic processing (see Polanco et al. 2020 for details; https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.140) and associated field metadata.
	* metadata/: contains two metadata files, one related to the data collected in the field for each filter, and the second related to the sequencing process in the lab (including the tag sequence, library name, and marker information for each sample)

marseille

display_name: marseille

mediterraneaen

display_name: mediterraneaen

en: Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2022


maintainer: Anita C. Risch

en: global soil-biology worldwide mineralization soil-chemistry soil grassland nutrient-network

en:
site.code: Site code

Continent: Continent

sampleID: Sample ID

nn.latitude: Lattitude

nn.longitude: Longitude

bioclim.T.ann: Mean annual temperature (°C)

bioclim.T.var: Temperature variability (°C)

bioclim.T.q.wet: Temperature of the wettest quarter (°C)

bioclim.T.q.dry: Temperature of the driest quarter (°C)

bioclim.T.q.warm: Temperature of the warmest quarter (°C)

bioclim.P.ann: Mean annual preciptiation (mm)

bioclim.P.q.wet: Precipitation of the wettest quarter (mm)

ch.pH: pH

ch.WSK.vol: Water holding capacity (vol%)

ch.bulkdensity.gcm3: Bulk density (g cm-3)

ch.porespace: Pore space (vol%)

ch.sand.perc: Soil texture: sand (%)

ch.silt.perc: Soil texture: silt (%)

ch.clay.perc: Soil texture: clay (%)

ch.NO3start.mgg: NO3 at the beginning of the incubation (mgkg)

ch.Ntot.perc: Total soil N (%)

ch.Ctot.perc: Total soil C (%)

ch.Corg.perc: Soil organic C (%)

ch.netNminfield.mgkgd: Realised soil net N mineralisation (mg kg-1 d-1)

ch.netNminlab.mgkgd: Potential soil ne N mineralisation (mg kg-1 d-1)

archaea.cpg.log: Ammonia oxidising archaea (archaeal amoA gene copies g-1 soil)

bacteria.cpg.log: Ammonia oxidising bacteria (bacterial amoA gene copies g-1 soil)

micr.biom: Microbial biomass (ug g-1 soil)

ch.CtoN: C to N ratio

ch.netNnitriffield.mgkgd.sqrt: Realised soil net nitrification, transformed (mg kg-1 d-1)

ch.netNammoniffield.mgkgd.sqrt: Realised soil net ammonification, transformed (mg kg-1 d-1)

ch.netNnitriflab.mgkgd.sqrt: Potential soil net nitrification, transformed (mg kg-1 d-1)

ch.netNammoniflab.mgkgd.sqrt: Potential soil net ammonifiation, transformed (mg kg-1 d-1)

en:
This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

Paper Citation:

Risch, A. C.; Zimmermann, S.; Ochoa-Hueso, R.; Schütz, M.; Frey, B.; Firn, J. L.; Fay, P. A.; Hagedorn, F.; Borer, E. T.; Seabloom, E. W.; et al. Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands. Nat. Commun. 2019, 10 (1), 4981 (10 pp.). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12948-2

Please cite this paper together with the citation for the datafile.

We conducted coordinated measurements of realised and potential soil net Nmin, and assessed water holding capacity, bulk density, C and N content, texture, pH, pore space, microbial biomass, and archaeal (AOA) and bacterial (AOB) ammonia oxidiser abundance using identical materials and methods across 30 grasslands on six continents. The sites covered a globally relevant range of climatic and edaphic conditions. Climate data was obtained from worldclim - Global climate data https://www.worldclim.org/

global

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grassland

display_name: grassland

mineralization

display_name: mineralization

nutrient-network

display_name: nutrient-network

soil

display_name: soil

soil-biology

display_name: soil-biology

soil-chemistry

display_name: soil-chemistry

worldwide

display_name: worldwide


maintainer: Frank Techel

en: avalanche-size natural-avalanches snowpack-model avalanche machine-learning

en: Data set DL was used for validation of the avalanche-day classifier and the avalanche-size estimator. The data set contains the quality-checked danger levels merged with the respective SNOWPACK simulations (Sections 2.3 and 3.3(2) in Mayer et al.).

en: Data set AV2 used for training the avalanche-size estimator (Sections 2.1.2 and 3.2 in Mayer et al.)

en: Data set AV3 was used for validation of the avalanche-day classifier (Sections 2.1.3 and 3.3(1) in Mayer et al.).

en: Data set AV1 was used for training the avalanche-day classifier (Sections 2.1.1, 2.2, and 3.1 in Mayer et al.).

en:
The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023):
Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity using physics-based snowpack simulations, EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-646, 2023.

avalanche

display_name: avalanche

avalanche-size

display_name: avalanche-size

machine-learning

display_name: machine-learning

natural-avalanches

display_name: natural-avalanches

snowpack-model

display_name: snowpack-model

en: Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations


maintainer: Sofia Pagliarin

en: soil-sealing urban-atlas barcelona copernicus imperviousness milan

en: Shareable project in Esri ArcGIS format including the HRL IMD data in raster format for each of the territorial boundaries as specified in letter a)-h), see Dataset description

en: Information on data sources

en:
Dataset description

This dataset is a recalculation of the Copernicus 2015 high resolution layer (HRL) of imperviousness density data (IMD) at different spatial/territorial scales for the case studies of Barcelona and Milan. The selected spatial/territorial scales are the following:

 * a)	Barcelona city boundaries
 * b)	Barcelona metropolitan area, Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB)
 * c)	Barcelona greater city (Urban Atlas)
 * d)	Barcelona functional urban area (Urban Atlas)
 * e)	Milan city boundaries
 * f)	Milan metropolitan area, Piano Intercomunale Milanese (PIM)
 * g)	Milan greater city (Urban Atlas)
 * h)	Milan functional urban area (Urban Atlas)

In each of the spatial/territorial scales listed above, the number of 20x20mt cells corresponding to each of the 101 values of imperviousness (0-100% soil sealing: 0% means fully non-sealed area; 100% means fully sealed area) is provided, as well as the converted measure into squared kilometres (km2).

 Dataset composition

The dataset is provided in .csv format and is composed of:

_IMD15_BCN_MI_Sources.csv_: Information on data sources

 _IMD15_BCN.csv_: This file refers to the 2015 high resolution layer of imperviousness density (IMD) for the selected territorial/spatial scales in Barcelona:
 * a)	Barcelona city boundaries (label: bcn_city)
 * b)	Barcelona metropolitan area, Àrea metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) (label: bcn_amb)
 * c)	Barcelona greater city (Urban Atlas) (label: bcn_grc)
 * d)	Barcelona functional urban area (Urban Atlas) (label: bcn_fua)

 _IMD15_MI.csv_: This file refers to the 2015 high resolution layer of imperviousness density (IMD) for the selected territorial/spatial scales in Milan:
 * e)	Milan city boundaries (label: mi_city)
 * f)	Milan metropolitan area, Piano intercomunale milanese (PIM) (label: mi_pim)
 * g)	Milan greater city (Urban Atlas) (label: mi_grc)
 * h)	Milan functional urban area (Urban Atlas) (label: mi_fua)

_IMD15_BCN_MI.mpk_: the shareable project in Esri ArcGIS format including the HRL IMD data in raster format for each of the territorial boundaries as specified in letter a)-h).

Regarding the territorial scale as per letter f), the list of municipalities included in the Milan metropolitan area in 2016 was provided to me in 2016 from a person working at the PIM.

In the IMD15_BCN.csv and IMD15_MI.csv, the following columns are included:

 * Level: the territorial level as defined above (a)-d) for Barcelona and e)-h) for Milan);
 * Value: the 101 values of imperviousness density expressed as a percentage of soil sealing (0-100%: 0% means fully non-sealed area; 100% means fully sealed area);
 * Count: the number of 20x20mt cells corresponding to a certain percentage of soil sealing or imperviousness;
 * Km2: the conversion of the 20x20mt cells into squared kilometres (km2) to facilitate the use of the dataset.

 Further information on the Dataset

This dataset is the result of a combination between different databases of different types and that have been downloaded from different sources. Below, I describe the main steps in data management that resulted in the production of the dataset in an Esri ArcGIS (ArcMap, Version 10.7) project.

 1. The high resolution layer (HRL) of the imperviousness density data (IMD) for 2015 has been downloaded from the official website of Copernicus. At the time of producing the dataset (April/May 2021), the 2018 version of the IMD HRL database was not yet validated, so the 2015 version was chosen instead. The type of this dataset is raster.

 2. For both Barcelona and Milan, shapefiles of their administrative boundaries have been downloaded from official sources, i.e. the ISTAT (Italian National Statistical Institute) and the ICGC (Catalan Institute for Cartography and Geology). These files have been reprojected to match the IMD HRL projection, i.e. ETRS 1989 LAEA.

 3. Urban Atlas (UA) boundaries for the Greater Cities (GRC) and Functional Urban Areas (FUA) of Barcelona and Milan have been checked and reconstructed in Esri ArcGIS from the administrative boundaries files by using a Eurostat correspondence table. This is because at the time of the dataset creation (April/May 2021), the 2018 Urban Atlas shapefiles for these two cities were not fully updated or validated on the Copernicus Urban Atlas website. Therefore, I had to re-create the GRC and FUA boundaries by using the Eurostat correspondence table as an alternative (but still official) data source. The use of the Eurostat correspondence table with the codes and names of municipalities was also useful to detect discrepancies, basically stemming from changes in municipality names and codes and that created inconsistent spatial features. When detected, these discrepancies have been checked with the ISTAT and ICGC offices in charge of producing Urban Atlas data before the final GRC and FUA boundaries were defined.

Steps 2) and 3) were the most time consuming, because they required other tools to be used in Esri ArcGIS, like spatial joins and geoprocessing tools for shapefiles (in particular dissolve and area re-calculator in editing sessions) for each of the spatial/territorial scales as indicated in letters a)-h).

Once the databases for both Barcelona and Milan as described in points 2) and 3) were ready (uploaded in Esri ArcGIS, reprojected and their correctness checked), they have been ‘crossed’ (i.e. clipped) with the IMD HRL as described in point 1) and a specific raster for each territorial level has been calculated. The procedure in Esri ArcGIS was the following:

 * Clipping: Arctoolbox > Data management tools > Raster > Raster Processing > Clip. The ‘input’ file is the HRL IMD raster file as described in point 1) and the ‘output’ file is each of the spatial/territorial files. The option "Use Input Features for Clipping Geometry (optional)” was selected for each of the clipping.
 * Delete and create raster attribute table: Once the clipping has been done, the raster has to be recalculated first through Arctoolbox > Data management tools > Raster > Raster properties > Delete Raster Attribute Table and then through Arctoolbox > Data management tools > Raster > Raster properties > Build Raster Attribute Table; the "overwrite" option has been selected.

 Other tools used for the raster files in Esri ArcGIS have been the spatial analyst tools (in particular, Zonal > Zonal Statistics). As an additional check, the colour scheme of each of the newly created raster for each of the spatial/territorial attributes as per letters a)-h) above has been changed to check the consistency of its overlay with the original HRL IMD file. However, a perfect match between the shapefiles as per letters a)-h) and the raster files could not be achieved since the raster files are composed of 20x20mt cells.

The newly created attribute tables of each of the raster files have been exported and saved as .txt files. These .txt files have then been copied in the excel corresponding to the final published dataset.

barcelona

display_name: barcelona

copernicus

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imperviousness

display_name: imperviousness

milan

display_name: milan

soil-sealing

display_name: soil-sealing

urban-atlas

display_name: urban-atlas

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Soil sealing Barcelona and Milan different territorial levels