The basics and background information
The GIN office provides a user manual, the official training documents and background information. The background information documents include explanations of how, for example, discharge volumes and flood probabilities are determined or the basis for hydrological forecasts and warnings.
Introductory documents on using GIN
Background information
Meteorology – MeteoSwiss
Snow and avalanches – SLF
- Avalanche bulletin
- Boundary layer dynamics and snowmelt (DE)
- Details about the automatic stations
- Details about the manual measurement fields
- Details about the Relative Snow Depth Map
- Details about the snow depth map
- Details on snow measurement
- Details on the snow forecast
- Information about temperature measurement
- Information about wind measurement
- Snow-hydrological forecasting
Floods and hydrology – FOEN
Mass movements - FOEN
Other relevant pages
Office GIN
Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Mühlestrasse 2
CH-3063 Ittigen
Mühlestrasse 2
CH-3063 Ittigen