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Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹...
Regions and cities, Environment
<p>Monthly rainfall erosivity maps (R-factor maps) of Switzerland with a spatial resolution of 100 m. The maps show the spatial and seasonal variability of rainfall erosivity in...
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Water availability for plants
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Too little water is available to the trees more and more often: •The vegetation and soil release water into the atmosphere, even moreso the warmer and drier the air. Plants evap...
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National Ecological Network REN, watercourses / lakes
Regions and cities, Environment
The National Ecological Network (REN) was developed in close collaboration with cantonal authorities for the protec-tion of nature and landscapes. It issues a technical/sciencif...
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National Ecological Network REN, wetland site
Regions and cities, Environment
The National Ecological Network (REN) was developed in close collaboration with cantonal authorities for the protec-tion of nature and landscapes. It issues a technical/sciencif...
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC)
Regions and cities, Environment
Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring station...
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Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (SwissPRTR)
Regions and cities, Environment
SwissPRTR is the publicly accessible Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. It provides information about releases of pollutants and transfers of wastes from facilities ...
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Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Sulfur
Regions and cities, Environment
Interpolierte Element-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insges...
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Tranquillity Map
Regions and cities, Environment
The "Tranquillity Map of the Swiss Plateau" illustrates where areas of near-natural character and low noise pollution still exist near large settlements within the Swiss Plateau...
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Total Phosphorus
Regions and cities, Environment
Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring station...
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Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance - Appendix 2
Regions and cities, Environment
Floodplains, namely natural habitats in the flood zones of watercourses, are in decline. The scientific inventory of floodplains was commissioned by the FDHA in May 1981 and com...
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Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments
Regions and cities, Environment
Article 5 of the Federal Act of 1 July 1966 on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage (NCHA) orders the Federal Council to compile inventories of sites of national impor...
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Hydrogeological map of Switzerland 1:100000
Regions and cities, Environment
Published by the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, the specialist office of the Swiss Geological Survey responsible for hydrogeology.The hydrogeological map 1:100,000 sho...
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Ramsar sites in Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
To protect wetlands, particularly because they are habitats for waterbirds and migratory birds, an international convention was signed in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran. Switzerland ratif...
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Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Prunus laurocerasus
Regions and cities, Environment
The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring ...
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Base cation dynamics in an Oriental beech forest
Education, culture and sport
Throughfall, litterflow and soil solution were sampled during one whole year under five Oriental beech trees in a mixed Hyrcanian beech forest. The amounts of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ and...
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Snow Depth Mapping
Education, culture and sport
The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 2m generated from image matching of ADS 80/100 data. Image acquisition took place at peak of winter (time...
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Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow...
Education, culture and sport
The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript ([doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822](http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071822)). Manuscript Abstract...
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Hydro-meteorological simulations for the period 1981-2018 for Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
The dataset provides simulated 1) precipitation, 2) discharge, 3) soil moisture, and 4) low-flow simulations for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland for the period 1981-2...
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Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)
Education, culture and sport
Data obtained in the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment at Hofstetten, NW Switzerland, between 2009 and 2016. This dataset contains analyses of the soil solution througho...
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Simulated future discharge and climatological variables for medium-sized...
Education, culture and sport
Daily discharge and the related hydro-meteorological variables precipitation, snowmelt, and soil moisture are provided for current (1981-2017) and for future climate conditions ...
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Automatic Classification of Avalanches
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains the classification and localization results obtained during the automatic classification of avalanches during the winter season 2017.
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Data Broedlin CNP
Education, culture and sport
Mircocosm experiment to identify the individual patterns and controls of C, N, and P mobilization in soils under beech forests. Organic and mineral horizons sampled along a nutr...
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History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1850
Education, culture and sport
Naturally, large parts of the Swiss Plateau are characterised by wetlands and meandering rivers. That this is no longer the case today is the result of centuries of efforts to o...
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Schänis, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the...
Education, culture and sport
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 compris...
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Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for...
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Euro...