Partners and links
Including cantons that provide data or institutions that provide support in setting up the soil moisture measurement network or in an advisory capacity (list not exhaustive):
Research organisations
- ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences and Institute of Physics of Soils and Terrestrial Ecosystems
- Institute for applied plant biology AG: IAP - Institute for applied plant biology
- Hochschule für Agrar-, Forst- und Lebensmittelwissenschaften BFH-HAFL: Soil Competence Centre
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL: Research units Hydrological Forecasts , Forest Dynamics, Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry und Forest Resources and Management
Cantonal offices
- Kanton Thurgau, Amt für Umwelt, Abteilung Wasserbau & Hydrometrie
- Canton de Vaud, Département de la jeunesse, de l'environnement et de la sécurité (DJES), Direction générale de l’environnement (DGE), Section eaux souterraines
- Kanton Zürich, Amt für Abfall, Wasser, Energie und Luft
Links to further information:
- Meteorological drought: Drought - MeteoSwiss und Drought indices - MeteoSwiss
- National Centre for Climate Services NCCS
- Swiss Climate Change Scenarios
- Hydro-CH2018 hydrological scenarios
- European Space Agency (ESA): Copernicus Sentinel-2
- EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility CM-SAF: https://www.eumetsat.int/cm-saf
- TreeNet - The biological drought and growth indicator network: TreeNet
- Current state of Swiss forests: Current forest condition
- Current water availability for plants: FOEN App Drought stress
- Forest monitoring HAFL/BAFU: Digital-Forest-Monitoring
- Swiss Soil Moistrue EXperiment ETHZ: SwissSMEX
- Measuring the soil water situation on LWF sites: SwissSPOT
- Cantonal soil moisture monitoring network, operated by Meteotest AG: Bodenmessnetz – Startseite
- DRAINS - DRought Assessment IN Swiss forests: DRAINS - DRought Assessment IN Swiss forests
- Irrigation network BFH-HAFL: Bewässerungsnetz