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Mapping of Floodplains of National Importance
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
In order to give cantons the option of taking the protection of floodplains of probable national importance into their own hands as quickly as possible, the Swiss Agency for the...
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Water temperature of rivers and streams
Regions and cities, Environment
The map provides an overview of current water temperatures in Switzerland's rivers.
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Underground flow paths in karst regions
Regions and cities, Environment
The Underground flow paths layer indicates the probable direction taken by the groundwater in karst regions within the catchments towards the relevant spring. These interpretati...
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National Air Pollution Monitoring Network NABEL: stations
Regions and cities, Environment
The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) monitors air quality at 16 different locations in Switzerland. The monitoring stations are spread over the entire country a...
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Federal Inventory of Dry Grasslands of National Importance (DGS)
Regions and cities, Environment
Dry grasslands are habitats with a wide variety of species that are marked by agricultural use. In accordance with the Federal Act on Protecting Nature and Cultural Heritage, th...
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Forest ecoregions
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the Forest Ecoregions. They differ in terms of climatic factors, forest vegetation and altitudinal vegetation belts. The southernmost tip of Ticino is considered t...
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Modelled altitudinal vegetation belts for 2085 with dry future climate
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
This map shows the altitudinal vegetation belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 2070-2099 assuming a dry future climate. The following altitudinal vegetation ...
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Forest mix rate NFI
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Information on the degree of forest mix rate NFI is modelled using remote sensing methods. Based on the freely available Copernicus (ESA) Sentinel-1 and -2 satellite data (image...
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Stations hydrological forecasts
Regions and cities, Environment
The map provides an overview of stations forecasted by FEWS.
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Swiss residual flow maps Return flows
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...
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Swiss residual flow maps Supply
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...
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Areas of silver fir
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the areas of silver fir occurrence. In the main area, fir is naturally involved to a considerable extent in the stand development in the upper montane and high-mon...
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Catchment units in karst regions
Regions and cities, Environment
The Karst catchment units layer consists of the unit areas from which similar groundwater flow behaviour towards the karst spring can be expected. In particular, it allows for t...
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General situation of groundwater levels and spring discharges
Regions and cities, Environment
The map provides an overview of the current groundwater levels and spring discharges in Switzerland. Percentiles based on the daily values of the reference period 1991–2020 are ...
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Nitrogen Deposition
Regions and cities, Environment
The time series shows the modelled total deposition of nitrogen for the years 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020 in a resolution of 500m as a sum of wet, dry and gaseous depo...
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Residual flow map of Switzerland: catchment
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...
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General situation of rivers and lakes
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the current Swissriver discharges and lake water levels compared with the monthly percentiles of the long term hourly averages (expressed in percentiles). The perc...
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Comparison of discharge and water gauge data with hazard levels
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the current discharge at all the stations, as compared with flood hazard levels.
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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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Flood alert map
Regions and cities, Environment
The flood alert map shows the current flood danger level (1 to 5) for all and for the regions in relation to small and medium-sized rivers. The rivers of national interest are d...
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NAQUA-QUANT Monitoring sites (NAQUA National groundwater monitoring)
Regions and cities, Environment
Groundwater is the result of the percolation of rainfall and the infiltration of river water. Groundwater levels and spring discharges therefore respond – though possibly with a...
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Areas of storm damage caused by “Vivian” in 1990
Regions and cities, Environment
Federal government inventory of damage caused by “Vivian” in February 1990: database of areas of total damage in forests. Defined criteria and conditions: Area of total damage: ...
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Modelled altitudinal vegetation belts for 1975
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
This map shows the altitudinal belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 1961-1990. The following altitudinal vegetation belts only occur in the southern valleys:...
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Groundwater temperature
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 t...
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Lothar 1999 storm damage inventory
Regions and cities, Environment
The aim of the federal government’s “Lothar” storm damage inventory was to produce a complete and uniform database of total and partial damage to forests throughout Switzerland....