The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research is concerned with the use, development and protection of natural and urban spaces. The focus of our research is on solving problems to do with the responsible use of landscapes and forests and a prudent approach to natural hazards, especially those common in mountainous countries. WSL occupies a leading position internationally in these research areas. We also provide groundwork for sustainable environmental policies in Switzerland.

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  • Faktenblätter und Leitfaden für Hochwasserschätzmethoden in der Praxis

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    (English version below) Ziel dieser Faktenblätter ist es Informationen zu den Schätzmethoden, Hinweise zur Parametrisierung und eine grobe Einschätzung der Güte der Resultate in...

    Last updated: December 6, 2023

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    • decision-making
    • engineering
    • estimation-methods
    • flood
    • hydrology
  • ERRA -- an R script for Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    ERRA is a data-driven, nonparametric, model-independent method for quantifying rainfall-runoff relationships across a spectrum of time lags, in systems that may be nonlinear,...

    Last updated: October 16, 2025

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    • ecohydrology
    • hydrology
    • nonlinear-deconvolution
    • nonstationarity
    • precipitation
    • rainfall-runoff-modelling
    • streamflow
    • time-series
  • 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: November 7, 2025

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    • climate-change-impacts
    • hydrology
    • snow
    • snowfall
    • water-cycle