Meteorological data ressources

Meteorological data resources

This page lists important Federal meteo products and some Cantonal resources.

Time series  (Swiss Federal resources)

• MeteoSwiss Station data to be downloaded via Idaweb (requires an account, available for all researchers upon request).
  • For EPFL/ENAC staff, there might still be the climap server, get more information here : https://enacvm.epfl.ch/Soft/climap.
• Information on the network of automatic MeteoSwiss stations, SwissMetNet, is available here. The map at the bottom links to all stations, direct acces to the map here (there is slider to show the table instead of the map).
  • Besides the automatic network (hourly data), there is also a manual precipitation observation network with daily precipitation data (in the above map).
  • The stations are also visible in the map of current values.
  • New: measurements at the SLF stations (snow measurement network) can be found on Idaweb if looking for stations that have "SLF" in their abreviation.
• For gridded data: see complete overview of available data for general public on MeteoSwiss page, here (not in english). All data for Spatial Climate Analysise are described here (in english).
  • For hydrological purporses, the products "RhiresD" (pdf in english) (daily precip at 1km resolution) and "Tabs" (daily temperature) since 1961 are particularly useful. They are also described here (not in english) and an example of gridded precipitation data see here.
    • Distribution at EPFL: new information coming soon.
    • Distribution at UNIL: via the GIS server
    • Distribution at UniBE: via personal contact with climate group
  • NEW: Since June 2019, MeteoSwiss also proposes a probabilistic analysis of area mean daily precipitation, called RhydchprobD, which is described here. I have heard of it by coincidence. We have it a Uni Bern; I know of a single person who has used it so far.
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Climatological maps (Swiss Federal resources)

• Some gridded average climatological data (maps, no time series) available from the swiss hydrological Atlas (e.g. evaporation, mean annual precipitation)

Extreme value analysis (Swiss Federal resources)

• MeteoSwiss has an online database of extreme precipitation analysis, here.

Cantonal ressources (very incomplete):

• Canton de Vaud: http://www.vhv.ch/