Discharge data

Discharge and water temperature time series

Swiss Federal resources

Observed current and past discharge, water temperature and lake level data (time series) are available from http://www.hydrodaten.admin.ch.
- Spatial data on the catchment extent (shape files) are available here.
The gauge / water level locations are visible here and a station list here.
No online download, for ordering contact the " Data service Hydrology" see here.
- Daily Discharge data for most national gauges for the period 1981-2020 is available in the CAMELS-CH data set, with meteo time series and catchment attributes: CAMELS-CH: https://zenodo.org/records/10354485, corresponding manuscript: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/5755/2023/essd-15-5755-2023.pdf, GitHub: https://github.com/camels-ch/camel
- In addition: HydroCH is an hourly discharge database for hydrological Switzerland, published on Zenodo by Martina Kauzlaric et al., 2023: https://zenodo.org/record/7691294#.ZAB6sRXMI2x
Simulated monthly runoff values and river regime classification for entire Switzerland are available from simulations completed by the WSL for the FOEN/BAFU (link updated Feb 2024); (new) this includes simulations for future periods. The data set keeps on migrating, ask google for called "mean monthly and annual runoffs + BAFU".
- See corresponding entry in https://wiki.epfl.ch/hydrodata/hydroregime

Cantonal resources (incomplete list, updated on 02 June 2021 based on a list by M. Floriancic in this Supplement from this paper).