Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is a research center that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.

Researching the spread of drought and its potential negative impacts

It is important for water management to understand how drought spreads. In a new study, researchers from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF show that in every third case, atmospheric drought is followed by low water levels. More rarely does drought have a negative impact on groundwater. With climate change, extreme climate events such as […]

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL · 26 Mar 2024

19 Feb 2019

Ice volume of glaciers worldwide calculated anew

Researchers have provided a new estimate for the glacier ice volume all around the world, excluding the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Their conclusion: previous calculations overestimated the volume of the glaciers in High Mountain Asia.