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293 datasets found

  • 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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  • Altitudinal vegetation belts in Switzerland for 2085 with less dry future climate

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

    This map shows the altitudinal vegetation belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 2070-2099 assuming a less dry future climate. The following altitudinal...

    Last updated: September 16, 2021

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  • Base areas (catchment areas) HADES

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The base areas form the lowest layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). As many...

    Last updated: January 1, 2004

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  • 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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  • Swiss residual flow maps Supply

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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    The Federal Act of 24 January 1991 on the Protection of Water against Pollution (LPEP) and its provisions on residual flows came into force on November 1, 1992 in Kraft getreten....

    Last updated: January 1, 2004

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  • 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

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  • Air pollution by sulfur dioxide

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Higher concentrations of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) can have especially negative effects on the respiratory tract; asthmatics and people with chronic respiratory diseases are...

    Last updated: August 19, 2025

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  • Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Manganese

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 insgesamt...

    Last updated: June 30, 2023

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  • Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), November

    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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  • Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Lead

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Interpolierte Blei-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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  • Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), May

    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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  • Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Sulfur

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 insgesamt...

    Last updated: June 30, 2023

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  • Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), February

    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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  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Impatiens balfourii

    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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  • Mean Annual Evaporation 1973–1992

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The present evaporation map was first published in the Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland in 1999. For the digital version of the atlas, these values will initially be used, since...

    Last updated: January 1, 1999

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  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Erigeron annuus

    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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  • Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Calcium

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Interpolierte Calcium-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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  • Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Mercury

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 insgesamt...

    Last updated: June 30, 2023

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  • Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, February

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    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 MJ...

    Last updated: February 27, 2020

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