diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a8a165b9a8db9341dadfd9d9e5ae1ea52c312279..56e449b1c126c403222768e6cf3a8a829782c3ab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,10 +8,22 @@ The folder `figure_plots` contains Jupyter notebooks that were used to create th
 
 To run the notebooks an installation of python>=3.7 is needed.
 
-The `requirements.txt` contains all dependencies for the notebooks to work. Please create an virtual environment, e.g. 
-with Anaconda's `conda create` command and run the following line:
+The `requirements.txt` and `environment.yml` contain all dependencies for the notebooks to work and can be installed 
+either with pip or conda. Please create an virtual environment, e.g. 
+with Anaconda's `conda create` command and run the following commands:
 
+Create a conda virtual environment from the environment.yml by running: 
 ```
+conda env create -f environment.yml
+```
+The default environment name will be `py37_chac`
+
+Or from the requirements.txt:
+```
+# using Conda
+conda create --name <env_name> --file requirements.txt
+
+# using pip
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2f391767267fe0015ae1dd0af766d766cc255bde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+name: py37_chac
+channels:
+  - anaconda
+  - defaults
+dependencies:
+  - blas=1.0=mkl
+  - bottleneck=1.3.2=py37h2a96729_1
+  - brotlipy=0.7.0=py37he774522_1000
+  - ca-certificates=2021.10.26=haa95532_4
+  - certifi=2020.6.20=py37_0
+  - cffi=1.14.3=py37h7a1dbc1_0
+  - cryptography=3.1.1=py37h7a1dbc1_0
+  - idna=2.10=py_0
+  - intel-openmp=2021.4.0=haa95532_3556
+  - mkl=2021.4.0=haa95532_640
+  - mkl-service=2.4.0=py37h2bbff1b_0
+  - mkl_fft=1.3.1=py37h277e83a_0
+  - mkl_random=1.2.2=py37hf11a4ad_0
+  - numpy-base=1.21.5=py37hc2deb75_0
+  - openssl=1.1.1m=h2bbff1b_0
+  - pip=21.2.4=py37haa95532_0
+  - pycparser=2.20=py_2
+  - pyopenssl=19.1.0=py_1
+  - pysocks=1.7.1=py37_1
+  - python=3.7.3=h8c8aaf0_1
+  - six=1.15.0=py_0
+  - sqlite=3.37.2=h2bbff1b_0
+  - urllib3=1.25.11=py_0
+  - vc=14.2=h21ff451_1
+  - vs2015_runtime=14.27.29016=h5e58377_2
+  - wheel=0.37.1=pyhd3eb1b0_0
+  - win_inet_pton=1.1.0=py37_0
+  - wincertstore=0.2=py37haa95532_2
+  - pip:
+    - attrs==21.4.0
+    - backcall==0.2.0
+    - bleach==4.1.0
+    - colorama==0.4.4
+    - cycler==0.10.0
+    - dclab==0.20.3
+    - decorator==5.1.1
+    - defusedxml==0.7.1
+    - entrypoints==0.4
+    - h5py==2.10.0
+    - helpdev==0.7.1
+    - imageio==2.8.0
+    - imageio-ffmpeg==0.4.3
+    - imagesize==1.2.0
+    - importlib-metadata==4.11.1
+    - importlib-resources==5.4.0
+    - intervaltree==3.0.2
+    - ipykernel==5.1.3
+    - ipython==7.11.1
+    - ipython-genutils==0.2.0
+    - ipywidgets==7.5.1
+    - jedi==0.18.1
+    - jinja2==3.0.3
+    - joblib==1.1.0
+    - json5==0.9.6
+    - jsonschema==4.4.0
+    - jupyter==1.0.0
+    - jupyter-client==5.3.4
+    - jupyter-console==6.0.0
+    - jupyter-core==4.6.1
+    - jupyterlab==1.2.4
+    - jupyterlab-server==1.0.6
+    - kiwisolver==1.3.2
+    - markupsafe==2.0.1
+    - matplotlib==3.4.1
+    - mistune==0.8.4
+    - nbconvert==5.6.1
+    - nbformat==5.1.3
+    - networkx==2.6.3
+    - notebook==6.0.2
+    - nptdms==0.17.1
+    - numpy==1.17.4
+    - opencv-python==4.5.1.48
+    - packaging==20.0
+    - pandas==1.2.4
+    - pandocfilters==1.5.0
+    - parso==0.8.3
+    - patsy==0.5.2
+    - pickleshare==0.7.5
+    - pillow==9.0.1
+    - prometheus-client==0.13.1
+    - prompt-toolkit==2.0.10
+    - pygments==2.11.2
+    - pyparsing==3.0.7
+    - pyper==1.1.2
+    - pyqt5-qt5==5.15.2
+    - pyqt5-sip==12.7.0
+    - pyqtgraph==0.12.1
+    - pyrsistent==0.18.1
+    - pyside2==5.15.2
+    - python-dateutil==2.8.2
+    - pytz==2021.3
+    - pywavelets==1.2.0
+    - pywin32==303
+    - pywinpty==2.0.2
+    - pyzmq==22.3.0
+    - qdarkstyle==2.8
+    - qtawesome==0.6.0
+    - qtconsole==4.6.0
+    - qtpy==1.9.0
+    - scikit-image==0.15.0
+    - scikit-learn==0.22.1
+    - scipy==1.3.2
+    - seaborn==0.11.2
+    - send2trash==1.8.0
+    - setuptools==60.9.2
+    - shiboken2==5.15.2
+    - sortedcontainers==2.4.0
+    - statsmodels==0.10.1
+    - terminado==0.13.1
+    - testpath==0.5.0
+    - tornado==6.1
+    - tqdm==4.40.2
+    - traitlets==5.1.1
+    - typing-extensions==4.1.1
+    - wcwidth==0.2.5
+    - webencodings==0.5.1
+    - widgetsnbextension==3.5.2
+    - xlrd==1.2.0
+    - zipp==3.7.0
+prefix: C:\Users\freiche\Anaconda3\envs\py37_chac