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Waterbase - Water Quantity

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Created 21 Jun 2005 Published 21 Jun 2005 Last modified 15 Dec 2022

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Waterbase is the generic name given to the EEA's databases on the status and quality of Europe's rivers, lakes, groundwater bodies and transitional, coastal and marine waters, and on the quantity of Europe's water resources

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Waterbase - Quantity: QuantityWater

The QuantityWater table contains data on water resources measured at Eionet-Water monitoring stations. Each station has been assigned a unique Waterbase identifier (WaterbaseID) which can be used to link the Quantity data with their respective Stations data.

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Value	Value	measured value of determinand.	float(8)	0
Year	Year	year of aggregation period, or year in which sample taken, in format YYYY.	int(4)	0
Determinand	Determinand	determinand name.	nvarchar(200)	0
Unit	Unit	unit of measurement.	nvarchar(30)	0
CountryCode	Country Code	ISO 3166-alpha-2 code elements.	varchar(2)	0
WaterbaseID	Waterbase ID	internally produced, unique identifier used to represent the monitoring station for rivers, lakes, transitional, coastal and marine waters and water quantity, or groundwater body, in the format CountryCode_WaterDataSet_NationalStationID (e.g. GB_RV_12345).	varchar(200)	-1

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Waterbase - Quantity: Stations

The Stations table contains the physical characteristics of the Eionet-Water water quantity monitoring stations. Each station has been assigned a unique Waterbase identifier (WaterbaseID) which can be used to link the Stations with their respective Quantity data.

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Latitude	Latitude	(Y) international geographical co-ordinates of the monitoring station in decimal degrees.	float(8)	0
CatchmentArea	Catchment area	upstream catchment area in km².	float(8)	0
Altitude	Altitude	altitude of monitoring station in m above sea level.	float(8)	0
Longitude	Longitude	(X) international geographical co-ordinates of the monitoring station in decimal degrees.	float(8)	0
IndexStation	Index station	index station for precipitation or discharge monitoring, used for spatial aggregation (1 = yes, 0 = no).	int(4)	0
PrecipitationStation	Precipitation station	rain gauge station which also measures snowfall: 1 = yes, 0 = no.	int(4)	0
ReferenceStation	Reference station	reference station: 1 =yes, 0 = no.	int(4)	0
FluxStation	Flux station	flux station: 1 =yes, 0 = no.	int(4)	0
RiverName	River name	river name at the national level.	nvarchar(200)	0
Region	Region	region in which water body is located at the national level.	nvarchar(200)	0
Country	Country name (ISO 3166-1)	official short name in English.	nvarchar(100)	0
WaterbaseName	Waterbase name	name of the monitoring station for rivers, lakes, transitional, coastal and marine waters and water quantity, or name of the groundwater body.	nvarchar(200)	0
NationalStationID	National station ID	national station identifier for rivers, lakes, transitional, coastal and marine waters and water quantity monitoring station. For transitional, coastal and marine waters, areas are recorded and reported as a discrete location, but location may relate to a station at a fixed geographical point, a broader area in which sampling locations vary from survey to survey or an area within a defined salinity range within which samples have been taken. When calculating loads, the national station identifier used should be the same ID previously supplied to represent the (flux) river monitoring station.	nvarchar(200)	0
WaterDataset	Water data set	RV = River, LK = Lake, GW = Groundwater, TCM = Transitional, Coastal or Marine Water, QA = Water Quantity.	varchar(3)	0
CountryCode	Country code	ISO 3166-alpha-2 code elements.	varchar(2)	0
WaterbaseID	Waterbase ID	internally produced, unique identifier used to represent the monitoring station for rivers, lakes, transitional, coastal and marine waters and water quantity, or groundwater body, in the format CountryCode_WaterDataSet_NationalStationID (e.g. GB_RV_12345).	varchar(200)	-1
DataSource	Data source	source of data: Eionet-Water, ICES.	varchar(50)	0

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Additional information

Quantity: metadata of the Stations table

Quantity: metadata of the Stations table (text/comma-separated-values)
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Quantity: metadata of the QuantityWater table

Quantity: metadata of the QuantityWater table (text/comma-separated-values)
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Metadata

Reporting obligations (ROD)

WISE SoE - Water Quantity (WISE-3)

Rights:

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Units:

Annual Daily Maximum Precipitation, Mean Annual Precipitation: mm Mean Annual Discharge, Annual Discharge Exceeded 95 % of the time at all Gauging Station-Types, Annual Maximum Discharge at all Gauging Station-Types: m³/s

Data sources

The European Topic Centre on Water. Version 2, date of delivery (date sent to the Data Service): 10/03/2005

Owners:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Processors:

European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC/ICM)

Additional information

Waterbase contains timely, reliable and policy-relevant data collected from EEA member countries through the Eionet-Water (formerly known as Eurowaternet) process. Eionet-Water selects validated monitoring data from national databases and adds information on the physical characteristics of the water bodies being monitored and on the pressures potentially affecting water quality. The added value of Waterbase is that data collected through the Eionet-Water process are from statistically stratified monitoring stations and groundwater bodies and are comparable at the European level. Waterbase data are primarily used in the production of the EEA's indicator-based factsheets.

For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/waterbase-water-quantity-1 or scan the QR code.

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