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64 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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    • WMTS
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    • 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

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • GDB
    • water-geographic
    • atlas
    • hydrology
    • gewiss
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • water
  • Swiss residual flow maps Supply

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    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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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • environment
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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

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