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Map of past earthquakes in Switzerland and neighbouring regions
Regions and cities, Environment
ECOS09 is the earthquake catalogue of Switzerland and bordering regions. It integrates the following sources: - Macroseismic Earthquake Catalogue of Switzerland (MECOS 02) with ...
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Crayfish plague – Findings in Switzerland
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Proof of the crayfish plague in Switzerland: Geo-referenced locations of populations with test results. The most cataclysmic disease for the European species is the crayfish pla...
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Catchments in karst regions
Regions and cities, Environment
The Karst catchments layer depicts those areas where seepage water flows into a specific spring and feeds it. Catchments can occasionally overlap, namely where sections of them ...
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General situation of groundwater levels and spring discharges
Regions and cities, Environment
The map provides an overview of the current groundwater levels and spring discharges in Switzerland compared with the expected conditions. The data is shown as below, above or e...
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Catchment units in karst regions
Regions and cities, Environment
The Karst catchment units layer consists of the unit areas from which similar groundwater flow behaviour towards the karst spring can be expected. In particular, it allows for t...
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Water temperature of rivers and streams
Regions and cities, Environment
The map provides an overview of current water temperatures in Switzerland's rivers.
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Comparison of discharge and water gauge data with hazard levels
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the current discharge at all the stations, as compared with flood hazard levels.
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Water status monitoring stations CH
Regions and cities, Environment
The data set represents the monitoring stations where the water status is recorded. The cantons are responsible for water protection enforcement, as they are for other environme...
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NQStat low-flow statistics
Regions and cities, Environment
A wide variety of parameters may be used to describe low-flow events. The FOEN Hydrology Division's low-flow statistics are based on the recommendations of the German Associatio...
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General situation of rivers and lakes
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the current Swissriver discharges and lake water levels compared with the monthly percentiles of the long term hourly averages (expressed in percentiles). The perc...
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Water temperature monitoring stations
Regions and cities, Environment
The data set represents the locations of the stations in the water temperature monitoring network of the Hydrology Department of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). I...
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HQStat flood statistics
Regions and cities, Environment
Data on flood events is managed and statistically evaluated by the FOEN; the findings are made available in the form of result sheets. A systematic statistical evaluation of flo...
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HWGWP flood crest gauge
Regions and cities, Environment
This set of data depicts the locations of the federal flood measuring stations, known as "Hochwassergrenzwertpegel". The data was collected in 2005; readings are no longer being...
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Hydrological study areas
Regions and cities, Environment
Since 1957 the hydrology division of the FOEN has operated a network of hydrological study areas aimed at observing long-term changes in the water regime within Switzerland’s mo...
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Groundwater temperature
Regions and cities, Environment
The map provides an overview of Switzerland's current groundwater temperatures. The calculation is based on percentiles of the dataset for the standard period 1991–2020 or, in t...
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Gauging stations for hydrological study areas
Regions and cities, Environment
Since 1957 the hydrology division of the FOEN has operated a network of hydrological study areas aimed at observing long-term changes in the water regime within Switzerland’s mo...
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Observations for aviation
Regions and cities, Environment
MeteoSwiss is responsible for flight safety from a meteorological perspective and makes an important contribution to aviation safety with its meteorological readings. The high v...
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Atmosphere stations
Regions and cities, Environment
MeteoSwiss monitors the atmosphere and measures its properties and composition. To do so, it uses various instruments and methods, including radio soundings, remote sensing devi...
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Weather stations of the automatic monitoring network
Regions and cities, Environment
SwissMetNet, the automatic monitoring network of MeteoSwiss, comprises about 160 automatic monitoring stations. These stations deliver a multitude of current data on the weather...
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Phenological observations
Regions and cities, Environment
The Swiss phenology network consists of 170 stations. Some 26 different plant species are observed in order to describe the vegetation development. On the basis of this informat...
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Weather cameras
Regions and cities, Environment
In order to obtain information on the current weather conditions along Switzerland's main flight paths, MeteoSwiss operates around 35 weather cameras. The cameras primarily serv...
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Stations of the national pollen monitoring network
Regions and cities, Environment
MeteoSwiss operates the national pollen monitoring network. This consists of automatic and manual monitoring stations which cover Switzerland's most important climatic and veget...
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Number of hail days
Regions and cities, Environment
The data contain the monthly and yearly number of hail days and the long-term average number of hail days per year or per month of the summer half-year (April to September), per...
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Maximum expected hailstone sizes (radar)
Regions and cities, Environment
The data contain the largest hailstone size by month and year, respectively, as well as the average number of days with hailstone sizes from 2 cm and 4 cm, respectively. Hailsto...
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Visual meteorological observations
Regions and cities, Environment
The information on current weather events is supplemented by visual human observations. The atmospheric conditions around the observation site are described in detail. Visual ob...