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24 datasets found

  • Numeric data from drought platform

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    This dataset includes all numerical data published on the national drought platform. For all drought-related variables, historical time series are available since 1991 with monthly...

    Last updated: November 25, 2024

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    • hydrology
    • water-geographic
    • atmospheric-precipitation
    • lake
    • agriculture
    • flowing-water
    • 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

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • gewiss
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • GDB
    • water-geographic
    • atlas
    • hydrology
    • gewiss
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • water
  • Mean runoff (m³/s) and flow regime types for the river network of Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    For the entire Swiss river network natural runoff (m³/s) values (monthly and annual means) have been modeled and the flow regime types determined. «MQ-GWN-CH» constitutes a dataset...

    Last updated: December 31, 2000

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • WMS
    • HTML
    • API
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • gewiss