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279 datasets found

  • Swiss National Park

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Switzerland’s National Park was created in 1909 through private initiatives. When the Confederation took over, it was officially created on 1 August 1914. The park was expanded...

    Last updated: January 17, 2001

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Determination and modelling of the upper timberline for the standard periods 1961–1990 and 1981–2010, and the future period 2070–2099

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    This map shows the natural upper timberline (excluding anthropogenic influences and without considering shrub forest) modelled for the periods 1961–1990, 1981–2010 and 2070–2099....

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Protection forest regions NFI

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

    According to the geometry of the data set, Switzerland is divided into six areas. They represent different forest growth and protective forest conditions.

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    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • API
    • RDF XML
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Precipitation sum June-August, period 2070-2099, Scenario RCP 8.5

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the precipitation sum (in mm) for the months June to August calculated for the period 2070-2099. The precipitation anomalies of the climate scenario were added to the...

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Mean daily temperature high in July, period 2070-2099, Scenario RCP 2.6

    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

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • forestry
    • climate
    • air
    • climate
    • air
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Relative air humidity in July, period 1981-2010

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the mean relative air humidity at 13:30 in July for the period 1981-2010. For the area-wide calculation the climate stations of MeteoSwiss served as support points....

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Thermal continentality at 1000 m a.s.l. in the year, period 1981-2010

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The thermal continentality in °C was calculated as the difference between the highest and lowest value of the daily variation of the temperature of the year in the period under...

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Groundwater temperature

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map provides an overview of Switzerland's current groundwater temperatures. The calculation is based on percentiles of the dataset for the standard period 1991–2020 or, in the...

    Last updated: June 23, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • hydrology
    • groundwater
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Frequency of Föhn in the year, period variable (maximum 1969-2013)

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the average frequency (in %) of the number of Föhn hours per year. A value of e.g. 12 % means that on 44 days in the year the Föhn blows, whereby the duration of the...

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Relative air humidity in the year, period 1981-2010

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the mean relative air humidity at 13:30 in the year for the period 1981-2010. For the area-wide calculation the climate stations of MeteoSwiss served as support...

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

    • HTML
    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Water temperature monitoring stations

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The data set represents the locations of the stations in the water temperature monitoring network of the Hydrology Department of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). It...

    Last updated: October 1, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • environment
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • human-health-and-safety
    • 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

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • climate
    • air
    • forestry
    • climate
    • air
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Thermal continentality at 1000 m a.s.l. in July, period 1981-2010

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The thermal continentality in °C was calculated as the difference between the highest and lowest value of the daily variation of the temperature of July in the period under...

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • National Long-Term Surveillance of Swiss Rivers

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National River Monitoring and Survey Programme (NADUF) tracks the concentrations of substances occurring in selected Swiss watercourses. NADUF, launched in 1972, is a project...

    Last updated: December 7, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • gewiss
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Production regions NFI

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

    According to the geometry of the data set, Switzerland is divided into five areas, namely Jura, Central Plateau, Pre-Alps, Alps, and the southern side of the Alps. They represent...

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    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • API
    • RDF XML
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • forest-resource
    • wood
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Schwermetallbelastung des Bodens (ods)

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

    Dieser Datensatz stellt die in der oberen Bodenschicht (0-20 cm) gemessene Schwermetallkonzentration auf ca. 100 permanenten Parzellen des Nationalen Bodenbeobachtungsnetzes (NABO)...

    Last updated: April 27, 2021

    • ODS
  • Traffic noise pollution (ods)

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Environment, Transport

    The sonBASE noise database was developed over a period of several years and has been available to users since 2009. It is based on the Topographic Landscape Model TLM. Other...

    Last updated: November 5, 2018

    • ODS
  • Grosse Hochwasserabflüsse in der Schweiz

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Environment

    Verzeichnis grosser Hochwasserabflüsse in schweizerischen Einzugsgebieten, zusammengestellt von der Scherrer AG im Auftrag des BAFU. Daten ab 1900, einzelne Werte von früher.

    Last updated: December 7, 2018

    • ODS