Download Report 2025: Data Sharing

The demand for open-access ecosystem data from Swiss FluxNet reached an all-time high in the past year. Our newest download statistics show that researchers and the public downloaded 11’087 datasets in 2025 (which equals to more than 30 downloads per day on average), representing an increase of 33% compared to 2024. Interest was well-distributed across sites and increased by 18% or more compared to 2024 for all sites. Check out the dataset downloads.

This increase in downloads confirms our group’s believe that environmental data should be a public good. Therefore, we openly share our datasets with the global community under the generous Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license. By providing our datasets via open access through international networks like FLUXNET and ICOS, Swiss FluxNet ensures that local environmental insights contribute directly to global efforts in climate modeling, environmental policy and transparent scientific reproduction. 

More details regarding the download numbers of the years can be found here:
Dataset Downloads ICOS/FLUXNET

Last Updated on 13 Feb 2026 13:46