Long-term soil-carbon measurement series round out a detailed MétéoSuisse publication on the main climate-observation parameters in Switzerland.
Soil is considered to be an important carbon reservoir. This parameter has recently been incorporated in the national inventory of the main Swiss climate-observation measurement series. Together with experts from the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and the FOEN, Agroscope specialists have compiled the different long-term soil-carbon measurement series for Switzerland and presented them in Chapter 3.12 (‘Soil Carbon’). The complete MétéoSuisse publication is available at the following link (in English only):