A selection of datasets from the Hydro-CH2018 hydrologic scenarios is available for use in climate impact research and practice.
Terms and Conditions
The Hydro-CH2018 scenario data are provided under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Among others, this means that users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon for any purpose, even commercially) the data, under the condition that proper reference is given to the Hydro-CH2018 datasets. Please note also that all material is provided without any warranties and guarantees.
Station and site data
Note
The data packages below contain the data for all calculated stations or sites (see overview map). Data for individual stations are available on the Hydro-CH2018 web atlas or on the hydrological atlas of Switzerland, where they can be displayed interactively.
The datasets contain modeled mean runoff changes (absolute and relative) for different emission scenarios and different time horizons at monthly, seasonal, and annual resolution at selected stations or sites:
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Data set L01: Runoff from mesoscale catchments at selected stations.
Changes in mean monthly, seasonal, and annual runoff for three emission scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5) for three future time periods: 2035 (2020-2049), 2060 (2045-2074), and 2085 (2070-2099). The focus of this dataset is on mesoscale catchments (10-1700 km2).
Citation:
Muelchi, R., Roessler, O., Schwanbeck, J. und Martius Romppainen, O. An ensemble of daily simulated runoff data (1981–2099) under climate change conditions for 93 catchments in Switzerland (Hydro-CH2018-Runoff ensemble). Geoscience Data Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.117, 2021
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Data set L02: Runoff from macroscale catchments at selected stations.
Changes in mean monthly, seasonal, and annual runoff for three emission scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5) for three future time periods: 2035 (2020-2049), 2060 (2045-2074), and 2085 (2070-2099). The focus of this dataset is on macroscale catchments (>1000 km2).
Citation:
Massimiliano Zappa, Florian Lustenberger, Rolf Weingartner, Alain Bühlmann, Regula Mülchi (2021). "Mean discharge of large catchments". In Hydro-CH2018: Scenarios to 2100. Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland.
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Data set L03: Runoff from glaciated headwater catchments at selected sites
Changes in mean monthly, seasonal, and annual runoff for three emission scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5) for three future time periods: 2035 (2020-2049), 2060 (2045-2074), and 2085 (2070-2099). The data set focuses on snow and glacier ice melt.
Citation:
Daphné Freudiger, Marc Vis, Jan Seibert (2021). "Mean discharge of glaciated catchments". In Hydro-CH2018: Scenarios to 2100. Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland.
Important information about the data:
Information accompanying the data to follow soon.
Data set L03 Hydro-CH2018: Runoff glaciated catchments (ZIP, 2 MB, 30.03.2021)mittlere Abflüsse in der Zukunft in Kopfeinzugsgebieten
Raster data
The maps compiled in this dataset contain gridded (500mx500m) mean monthly and annual discharges for three emission scenarios (RCP 2.6, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5). The maps are available for three time horizons in the future: 2035 (2020-2049), 2060 (2045-2074), and 2085 (2070-2099). In addition, the maps for the reference period (1981-2010) and the results of the control run are also included. The files are available as ASCII grids, without lakes with reference system CH1903_LV95.
External data portals with data from Hydro-CH2018
- Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland: Hydrological Scenarios Hydro-CH2018
- geo.admin.ch - the federal geoportal: mean discharges in the future
- Datalakes: data platform for operational modeling and forecasting of Swiss lakes
- ETHZ DROUGHT-HEAT: Scaling Atlas
- Envidat: WSL Environmental Research Data portal
Data from Hydro-CH2018 research projects
Within the framework of Hydro-CH2018, various research projects were carried out. An overview of all projects and the most important results can be found here.
Specific data on individual projects are available on request hydrologie@bafu.admin.ch.
Further information
Last modification 22.12.2023
