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6 datasets found

  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

    Last updated: May 20, 2020

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    • hydrology
    • water-cycle
    • climate-change-impacts
    • snowfall
    • snow
  • Dataset for: Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This work presents the first extensive study of climate change impacts on rivers temperature in Switzerland. Results show that even for low emissions scenarios, water temperature...

    Last updated: May 12, 2022

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    • hydrology
    • model
    • water-temperature
    • discharge
    • climate-change-impact
  • FORHYCS v. 1.0.0 model code

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Model code, technical documentation and auxiliary files for the dynamic ecohydrological model FORHYCS (FORests and HYdrology under Climate change in Switzerland). FORHYCS combines...

    Last updated: October 28, 2019

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    • SERVICE
    • modeling
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • hydrology
    • climate-change-impact
  • TRAMM project - experimental hydrological and hydrogeological dataset of a landslide prone hillslope. Rufiberg, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Rufiberg is a pre-alpine meadow site in Switzerland where shallow landslides have been observed after past intense rain storms. In order to assess the triggering mechanisms of...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

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    • XLS
    • water-table
    • meadow
    • hydrology
    • landslides
    • soil-moisture-water-content
  • Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains four years of daily measurements of the natural isotopic composition (2H, 18O) of precipitation and stream water at the Alp catchment (area 47 km2) in Central...

    Last updated: April 27, 2022

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    • TXT
    • PDF
    • stable-water-isotope
    • precipitation
    • stream-water
    • catchment
    • hydrology
    • alptal
  • Hydro-CH2018 Evolution of stream and lake water temperature under climate change

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This report presents past observations and projects the future development of water temperature in Swiss lakes and rivers. Projections are made until the end of the 21st century...

    Last updated: May 12, 2022

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    • climate-change
    • hydrology
    • lake
    • switzerland
    • river
    • climate-change-scenarios
    • hydro-ch2018