The federal environmental authority. It is responsible for ensuring that natural resources are used sustainably, that the public is protected against natural hazards, and that the environment is protected from unacceptable adverse impacts.

8 datasets found

  • Current drought hazard level

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 of...

    Last updated: November 25, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • API
    • HTML
    • water-geographic
    • lake
    • atmospheric-precipitation
    • flowing-water
    • hydrology
    • agriculture
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Current drought situation in Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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...

    Last updated: November 25, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • API
    • HTML
    • lake
    • atmospheric-precipitation
    • agriculture
    • flowing-water
    • hydrology
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Stations hydrological forecasts

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map provides an overview of stations forecasted by FEWS.

    Last updated: January 30, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • hydrology
    • flowing-water
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • General situation of rivers and lakes

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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...

    Last updated: October 30, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • lake
    • water-geographic
    • hydrology
    • flowing-water
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Flood alert map

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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...

    Last updated: November 5, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • flood
    • flowing-water
    • hydrology
    • lake
    • natural-hazard
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • River Typology for Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 of...

    Last updated: January 1, 2013

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • official-geodata
    • flowing-water
  • Water temperature of rivers and streams

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map provides an overview of current water temperatures in Switzerland's rivers.

    Last updated: October 30, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • flowing-water
    • hydrology
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Numeric data from drought platform

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    This dataset includes all numerical data published on the national drought platform. For all drought-related variables, historical time series are available since 1991 with monthly...

    Last updated: November 25, 2024

    • HTML
    • hydrology
    • water-geographic
    • atmospheric-precipitation
    • lake
    • agriculture
    • flowing-water
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure