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LWF - Mandates and Cooperations with Networks

International Networks

With the Programm LWF Switzerland is contributing to the following international networks:

ICP-Forests

With the Sanasilva and the LWF programme the WSL is implementing its mandate to carry out the contribution of Switzerland to the level I and II network of ICP-Forests. This contribution is based on international agreements under the auspices of the UN-ECE Convention on Longe Range Air Pollution Effects (LRTAP).

>> LWF & Swiss Contact points: ICP-Forests Switzerland

LTER - Long-Term Ecosystem Research

The LWF sites are part of the network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) sites in the World and in Europe (LTER Europe).

LWF contact person: M. Schaub

>> Swiss contact point: M. Schaub

GCOS - Global Climate Observation System

The LWF programme contributes with the monitoring of forest ecosystems in Switzerland to the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) initiated by WMO, UNESCO, UNEP, and the International Science Academy (ISCU) to fullfill the needs of the UNFCC.

LWF contact person: G. Schneiter

>> Swiss contact point: GCOS Switzerland

ICOS - Integrated Carbon Observation System

The LWF sites Davos Seehornwald and Laegeren are part of the Integrated Carbon Observation System ICOS.

With ICOS the EU and partners will build an infrastructure for co-ordinated, integrated, long-term high-quality observational data of the greenhouse balance of Europe and of adjacent key regions of Siberia and Africa. ICOS is designed to create the scientific backbone for a better understanding and quantification of greenhouse gas sources and sinks and their feedback with climate change.

LWF contact person: R. Zweifel

>> Swiss contact point: ICOS Switerland

ICP-Modelling and Mapping

The Sanasilva and the LWF programmes are a basis for the mapping of critical loads by ICP Modelling and Mapping, which is also under the auspices of LRTAP.

>> Swiss contact point: B. Achermann, BAFU.

ICP-Integrated Monitoring

The LWF programme and the national long-term observation of rivers (NADUF) contributed with data from the Alptal site to ICP Integrated Monitoring, a further programme under the auspices of the LRTAP

>> Further information: Project description

National Networks

Swiss Forest Monitoring Programme

The forest monitoring is intended to record the current state and the changes of the Swiss forest in all its functions, to estimate its risks and to derive logical consequences for a sutainable forest management and a environmental policy.

The program includes:

Swiss Forest Protection
Swiss National Forest Inventory (LFI)
Forest Health Inventory - Sanasilva (SSI)
Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) financed by the Swiss Federation
Permanent Observation Plots of the Institute for Applied Plant Biology (IAP) financed by Cantons

The programme is based on a partnership between the Federal Office of environment (FOEN), the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL and the Cantons.

National monitoring networks

The sites selection and methods of LWF are harmonised as far as adequate with the following national measurement networks:

Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSchweiz)
Hydrological foundations and data: monitoring networks
Basic monitoring network: water levels and discharge in surface waters (Basic monitoring network)
National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL)
National River Monitoring and Survey Programme (NADUF)
National Groundwater Monitoring network (NAQUA)
Swiss Soil Monitoring Network (NABO)

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