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EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ONWATER

WATERBASE Rivers

• Content and structure of Waterbase Rivers

• Update procedure

• Products based on Waterbase Rivers

• Future Developments

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• Content of Waterbase Rivers

• Basic network

• Aggregated data

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• Basic network

• Content of Waterbase Rivers

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• Structure of Waterbase Rivers

• Tables

• Waterbase ID

• Relationships

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• Tables

• Stations

• Pressures

• Standard Determinands

• Determinands

• Chemicals

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• Stations: physical characteristics

• National Station ID and Name

• Last Year of Revision

• Station Category, Type and Size

• Longitude, Latitude and Altitude

• Discharge

• Catchment Name and Area

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• Pressures: human pressures as % of land use

• Population density

• Urban

• Wetland

• Nature

• Forest

• Total Agricultural

• Other Agricultural

• Arable

• Pasture

• Other

• Point Source Loads

• Fertiliser Usage

• Soil Type

• Geology

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• Standard Determinands: standardised values

• Determinand

• Unit

• Category

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• Determinands: as supplied in update

• Determinand

• Unit

• Previous Determinand

• Previous Unit

• Correction Factor

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• Chemicals: chemical data by station

• National Station ID and Name

• Year

• Period and Period Length

• Determinand and Unit

• Detection Limit

• Number of Samples

• Average

• Maximum

• Minimum

• Standard Deviation

• Median

• 10th Percentile

• 90th Percentile

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• Waterbase ID

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eg. WB001234

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• Relationships

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Stations

Chemicals Pressures

WB_ID

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• Data request

• Raw data validated, processed, standardised

= comparable data

• Uploaded to Waterbase Rivers

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• Data request

• September

• Excel templates

Physical characteristics

Pressure

Chemical

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• Raw data validated

• Data returned in various formats

Excel spreadsheets (template or other)

Word documents

Text files

Databases

Emails

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• Raw data validated

• Data expressed in various formats

• National languages

• Determinands

• Units of measurement

• Non-numeric characters in numeric fields < . *

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• Validation process identifies:

• New stations

• Stations no longer used

• Checked against Waterbase and update

• Formatting validated

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• Upload to Waterbase Rivers

• New data appended

• Amendments to existing data - archive and update

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• Indicator reports

• State of the Environment reports

• Issues reports

• Sectoral reports (e.g. TERM, EERM…)

• Information for EEA products

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• EEA and national experts

• ETC and partners

• DG Environment

• EUROSTAT

• Member countries

• EEA collaborating organisations

• Information for target users

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• European Parliament

• National environmental authorities

• Industry, commerce and agriculture

• Academic and research organisations

• Media

• General public

• Information for target users

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• Future developments

• Reference Waterbase

• Streamline update process

• Additional datasets

• Collaborations

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• Create composite Reference Waterbase

Rivers

Lakes

Groundwater

Transitional and coastal waters

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• Continue to develop the Waterbase Rivers GUI

• Increase flexibility of selection criteria

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• Waterbase Rivers GUI

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• Make Reference Waterbase available on the web

• Enhance visualisation on web using mapping and graphical applications

• Develop metadata registry and version control

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• Streamline update process

• Automation

• Encourage use of Excel templates

Standardisation of language

Format

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• Additional datasets

• Impact network

• Disaggregated data

• Biological and hydromorphological data

• Quantity / flow data

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• Collaborations

• Joint Research Centre

Developing a digital database of derived drainage networks, river basins and catchments of Europe at a scale 1:250,000

Include detailed data at Eurowaternet measurement stations from Waterbase

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• Summary

• To create a composite Reference Waterbase

• To make the Reference Waterbase available on the web

• Interim measure

• To make Waterbase Rivers and Lakes available on CD-ROM

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