EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

Datasets from EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal (586)

Matric potential (manual suction cups) LWF

Measurement of the soil water availability to plants at 10 LWF plots every 14 days in 5 soil depths (15, 30, 50, 80, 130 cm) with 8 replicates (usually in the IM plot). The range of meas...

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Metabarcoding of urban and forest bird faecal samples

We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano, Zurich (Switzerland) and Napoli (Italy). The urban sites were located in urban forests (Lugano, Napoli) an...

Updated 2026-08-08 ZIP

Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used to simu...

Updated 2026-08-08 TXT ZIP

Meteorological data used to develop and validate the bias-detecting ensemble (BDE)

These data were used to drive and evaluate Jules Investigation Model (JIM) snow simulations. The data provided are the forcing data used for the "deterministic" runs as described in Winst...

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Meteorological measurements LWF

Continuous measurement of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, global radiation, photosynthetic active radiation, UVB radiation, and precipation in an open field ...

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Meteorological Time Series Aligned with Projected Temperature Changes

This dataset provides 50 years of seasonal synthetic hourly time series for five meteorological variables: incoming shortwave radiation, total precipitation, relative humidity, 2-meter ai...

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

This dataset contains measurement and simulation data. The measurements characterize the standard meteorology, turbulence, and snow transport at the S17 site near Syowa Station in East An...

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Modeled and measured fluxes of latent and sensible heat and snow transport at S17 near Syowa in Antarctica

This dataset supports a related publication (Sigmund et al., 2025) and contains - results of four **large-eddy simulations** (LES) coupled to a Lagrangian model (LM) for snow transport, a...

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Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories in the Antarctic

Summary This data set contains Python programming code and modeled data discussed in a related research article. We developed a simple isotope model to study the drivers of the particular...

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Modeling snow failure with DEM

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

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Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion

This dataset includes the parallel application and the main results supporting the research article "Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion" publishe...

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Modified TypoCH reference list of diagnostic species for the classification of vegetation types in Switzerland

The TypoCH scoring system (Eggenberg & Bornand 2023), which is widely used in Switzerland, provides good results as classification method for vegetation types based on Delarze et al. (201...

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Monitoring data sets of alpine photovoltaic power-plants

On this repository you can find the monitoring data of the 3 PV power-plants analysed in the article _"Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine areas"_ (doi...

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Monitoring of ash trees as part of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Programme

In 2013, the Institute for Applied Plant Biology (IAP) started a monitoring programme to study the development and the spatial variation of the ash dieback disease with the aim to find so...

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Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland

Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand climate-...

Updated 2026-08-08 ZIP

Mortality of regeneration: Acer spp. and Fagus sylvatica

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 harv...

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MOSAIC Snow on Sea Ice Data

Data accompanying David Wagners' Dissertation. Covers model results and various input from ALPINE3D and SNOWPACK adjusted for sea ice during MOSAiC.

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Mountain Permafrost Hydrology

This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). In earlier reports such as the CH2014-IMPACT...

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MPS-2 on LWF Visp to survey 2017 mortality wave

Continuous measurement of soil matrix potential at 15, 50 and 100 cm depth with Decagon MPS-2 sensors 1 m N, SE and SW from the stem of 3 threes within much and 3 trees within few shrubs...

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MPS-2 soil water matric potential LWF

Continuous measurement of soil matrix potential at 15, 50 and 80 cm depth with Decagon MPS-2 sensors Purpose: Improve the available data for the calibration or validation of the water c...

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Multi-resolution CLM5 simulations across Switzerland

This dataset contains Community Land Model 5 (CLM5) simulation output over the spatial extent of Switzerland at different resolutions and based on a range of input datasets. It further co...

Updated 2026-08-08 ZIP

Multi-Scale Prioritization framework for Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure Planning to Support Biodiversity: Data & Codes

This data includes (1) Scripts to aggregate landscape resistance layers into squared and hexagonal grids (i.e., different representations and resolutions), (2) Input resistance layers and...

Updated 2026-08-08 ZIP

Multiple realizations of daily snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation projections for mid- and late-century

The dataset contains for three variables (snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation) 50 realizations of current and future climate periods for two time horizons ...

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Nanoplastics in forests: Exploring the effects of nanoplastics on forest soils and tree physiology (NanoPlast)

The fate of plastic in the environment is of global concern, because its production recently has increased strongly and it accumulates in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Although some...

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