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Alpine pastures protected by livestock guardian dogs
Regions and cities, Environment
The return of large predators to Switzerland has led to the use of livestock guardian dogs on our alpine pastures. Herd guards are used to protect livestock against larger preda...
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Mean runoff (m³/s) and flow regime types for the river network of Switzerland
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 data...
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Windstorm: Gusts at return period 50 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...
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Map of the recent earthquakes (last 90 days) in and around Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
The map of the earthquakes of the last 90 days shows the current seismic activity in Switzerland and the nearby regions recorded by the Swiss Seismological Service at the ETH Zu...
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Current drought hazard level
Regions and cities, Environment
The drought warning map shows the current drought hazard (issued at levels 1, 2 and 4) for all regions of Switzerland. The hazard level results from a weekly expert assessment o...
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Current drought situation in Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the combined drought index for each region. This index summarises in one value the various factors affecting drought: precipitation, modelled soil moisture and dis...
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Warning Forest Fire Danger
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
The FOEN's forest fire danger warning contains the general daily forest fire danger based on meteorological data and the resulting forest fire indices.
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Database of wastewater treatment plants (ARA-DB) - cleaning type
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 origi...
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River Typology for Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
The typology of rivers groups the diversity of Swiss rivers according to abiotic, physiographic criteria, not considering anthropogenic impacts. They are a basis for assessment ...
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Distribution of ibex colonies
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
After being resettled in 1906, Alpine (Capra) ibex live in colonies of varying sizes throughout the Alpine region and in the Jura mountains. Because the growth of stocks in spec...
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Windstorm: Gusts at return period 100 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...
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Forest fire prevention measures of the cantons
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Contains the forest fire prevention measures currently in force in the cantons.
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Map of past earthquakes in Switzerland and neighbouring regions
Regions and cities, Environment
ECOS09 is the earthquake catalogue of Switzerland and bordering regions. It integrates the following sources: - Macroseismic Earthquake Catalogue of Switzerland (MECOS 02) with ...
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NQStat low-flow statistics
Regions and cities, Environment
A wide variety of parameters may be used to describe low-flow events. The FOEN Hydrology Division's low-flow statistics are based on the recommendations of the German Associatio...
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Water status monitoring stations CH
Regions and cities, Environment
The data set represents the monitoring stations where the water status is recorded. The cantons are responsible for water protection enforcement, as they are for other environme...
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Economic regions NFI
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Switzerland is divided into fourteen areas according to the geometry of the data set. They represent different forest growth and economic conditions and represent a refinement o...
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Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 100 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...
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Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 40 km²
Regions and cities, Environment
The "40 km² catchment areas" data set is one of four possible aggregation levels for the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of a compr...
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Swiss National Park and parks of national importance (Zones)
Regions and cities, Environment
The dataset contains the protected area of the ‘Swiss National Park’, which is protected in accordance with the National Park Act of 19 December 1980 (SR454) as well as park pro...
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Ramsar sites in Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
To protect wetlands, particularly as habitats for waterbirds and waders, a convention of international importance was signed in 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar. Switzerland r...
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Base areas (catchment areas) HADES
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 un...
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Database of total bedload (federal government)
Regions and cities, Environment
A bedload transport database for surface waters throughout Switzerland. Following the devastating events of the summer of 1987, which caused major damage in many regions of Swit...
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Ecomorphology Level F - Structures
Regions and cities, Environment
To enable surface waters to be fully protected, their status must be known. The Modular Stepwise Procedure provides the framework for standardized investigation and assessment o...
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Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (SwissPRTR)
Regions and cities, Environment
SwissPRTR is the publicly accessible Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. It provides information about releases of pollutants and transfers of wastes from facilities ...
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Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 300 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...