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
- Details about the automatic stations
- Details about the manual measurement fields
- Details on snow measurement
- Information about temperature measurement
- Information about wind measurement
- Details on the snow forecast
- Details about the snow depth map
- Details about the Relative Snow Depth Map
- Boundary layer dynamics and snowmelt (DE)
- Snow-hydrological forecasting
Other relevant pages
Office GIN
Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Worblentalstrasse 68
CH-3063 Ittigen
Worblentalstrasse 68
CH-3063 Ittigen