Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Laboratory experiments are presented on the phase change at the surface of sodium chloride – water mixtures at temperatures between 259 K and 240 K. High selectivity to the upper few nano...
Data set on snow instability
These data on snow instability include three data subsets that were analyzed and the results published by Reuter and Schweizer (2018) who suggest a novel framework on how to describe snow...
Dataset on Cosmo-1 based Energy Potential in Swiss Alps
This dataset consist of simulated hourly power production from an Enercon E82 Turbine at 100 m hub-height. It describes the hourly power output a 1MW turbine would produce in each 0.01° g...
DISCHMEX - High-resolution daily snow ablation rates in an Alpine environment
We recorded snow ablation maps with a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS, Riegl-VZ6000) at the Gletschboden area. The TLS position is located approximately 30 vertical meters above the Gletsc...
DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements
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 u...
eemma.R, an R script for Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis
The R script eemma.R, which implements Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis (EEMMA) to estimate source fractions in mixtures, exploiting information contained in time-series correlations a...
Energy Cooperatives in Switzerland: Survey Results // Energiegenossenschaften in der Schweiz: Befragungsergebnisse
Topic of Survey The data at hand on energy cooperatives in Switzerland were collected in 2016 as part of the project "Collective financing of renewable energy projects in Switzerland and ...
EnviDat Supports Open Science
The article "EnviDat Supports Open Science" originally appeared in WSLintern No. 3 (2020), page 14-15 and it is republished here with permission from the WSLintern editorial team. It cont...
ERRA -- an R script for Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis
ERRA is a data-driven, nonparametric, model-independent method for quantifying rainfall-runoff relationships across a spectrum of time lags, in systems that may be nonlinear, nonstationar...
European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe
The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists in the ...
European survey of planning experts on land-use planning regulations
This dataset contains the responses of an online expert survey on municipal land-use planning regulations governing buildings and open and green spaces across 30 European countries. Using...
Experts survey protective forest and combined extremes in Val Mesolcina
This dataset contains the results of a case study analysing the potential impacts of a compound meteorological extreme event on the protective forest in the Val Mesolcina. These impacts w...
FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study
Background information High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are ...
Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency
The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain insight i...
Faktenblätter und Leitfaden für Hochwasserschätzmethoden in der Praxis
(English version below) Ziel dieser Faktenblätter ist es Informationen zu den Schätzmethoden, Hinweise zur Parametrisierung und eine grobe Einschätzung der Güte der Resultate in übersicht...
Field observations of snow instabilities
This data set includes 589 snow profile observations including a rutschblock test, observations of signs of instability and an assessment of the local avalanche danger level, mainly recor...
Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7–9 June 2021, Birmensdorf, Switzer
Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7-9 June 2021, WSL, Bi...
FORHYCS v. 1.0.0 model code
Model code, technical documentation and auxiliary files for the dynamic ecohydrological model FORHYCS (FORests and HYdrology under Climate change in Switzerland). FORHYCS combines two pre...
Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments
This dataset contains four years of daily measurements of the natural isotopic composition (2H, 18O) of precipitation and stream water at the Alp catchment (area 47 km2) in Central Switze...
Genomics and Adaptation in Forest Ecosystems. Book of Abstracts. EvolTree Conference 2021, 14 – 17 September 2021, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
The first EVOLTREE Conference, taking place in hybrid format (on-site and online) at WSL Birmensdorf (Switzerland) from 14-17 September, 2021, focuses on the genomics of trees and interac...
GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data
This data set includes GPS-derived snow water equivalent (SWE), snow depth (HS) and liquid water content (LWC) data for three entire snow-covered seasons (2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018)...
High resolution climate data for Europe
High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present downscaled climate data for the CORDEX EUR11...
High resolution global standardized drought indices
The dataset consists of the standardized precipitation (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) index with a 30 arcsec (~1km) horizontal resolution. Data ...
High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland
Static input data (topography, landuse and soiltype) for the WRF preprocessing system WPS is provided for Switzerland and its neighboring countries between 45-49 N and 4-12 E. The data is...