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259 datasets found

  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 50 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

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    • natural-risk-analysis
    • air-movement
    • storm
    • wind
    • natural-risk
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Phytolacca americana

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, 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...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

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    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Copper

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Interpolierte Kupfer-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 insgesamt...

    Last updated: June 30, 2023

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    • HTML
    • heavy-metal-load
    • interpolation
    • biogeochemistry
    • toxic-metal
    • atlas
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • confederation
    • soil-mapping
    • soil-quality
    • soil
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Heracleum mantegazzianum

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, 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...

    Last updated: May 4, 2015

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  • Wildlife Passages

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    In einer ersten Phase hat das BAFU anhand der verfügbaren Daten die Wildtierpassagen auf dem Nationalstrassen- und Schienennetz erfasst. Berücksichtigt wurden Kunstbauten, die...

    Last updated: August 23, 2023

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    • environment
    • wild-animal
    • fauna
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • biotope-network
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), September

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland with a spatial resolution of 100m. The maps show the average soil loss in tons per hectare and month. Shades of green,...

    Last updated: June 27, 2019

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    • soil-erosion
    • erosion-control
    • erosion
    • soil
    • human-health-and-safety
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • Mean runoff in the future - results from the Hydro-CH2018 project

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the percentage changes in summer runoff towards the end of the century (2070-2099) compared to the reference period (1981 - 2010) as calculated in the hydrological...

    Last updated: February 17, 2021

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  • Grayling population of national importance: core areas

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The data on grayling populations of national importance includes three subproducts; the core zones layer includes the areas of particular importance for grayling populations, based...

    Last updated: August 29, 2011

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  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Helianthus tuberosus

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

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  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Glyceria striata

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, 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...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

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  • Water availability for plants

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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...

    Last updated: February 6, 2019

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    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • forest-resource
    • forest-ecology
    • wood
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 30 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • natural-risk
    • air-movement
    • wind
    • storm
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Mean daily temperature high in July, period 2070-2099, Scenario RCP 4.5

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Mean daily temperature high in July (period 2070-2099). The temperature increase of the climate scenario was added to the map «Air temperature July 1981-2010». Among the...

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

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    • climate
    • air
    • forestry
    • climate
    • air
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Gauging stations for hydrological study areas

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 most...

    Last updated: July 27, 2016

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    • gewiss
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Trachycarpus fortunei

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, 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...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Amorpha fruticosa

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, 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...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • River basins (catchment areas)

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The river basins form the uppermost aggregation level for the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. The large areas with a surface area of usually more...

    Last updated: December 1, 2019

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  • Database of wasterwater treatment plants (ARA-DB) - capacity (PE)

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Since the 1980s, the FOEN (formerly the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape) has kept a database with information about the central ARA. The underlying original...

    Last updated: January 1, 2014

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    • gewiss
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • water
  • Air pollution by nitrogen dioxide

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The term "nitrogen oxides" (NOx) embraces nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and nitrogen monoxide (NO). Nitrogen oxides form in the combustion of motor and heating fuels, especially when...

    Last updated: January 1, 2025

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    • SERVICE
    • air-pollutant
    • air
    • pollutant
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Vanadium

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Interpolierte Vanadium-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...

    Last updated: June 30, 2023

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • soil
    • interpolation
    • biogeochemistry
    • toxic-metal
    • soil-loading
    • heavy-metal-load
    • environmental-analysis
    • soil
    • soil
    • confederation
    • soil-quality
    • soil-mapping
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure