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WISE River basin districts (RBDs)
GIS data
Zipped personal geodatabase with coastal waters, polygon, vector
NOTE: this version is preliminary, 0.1.
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wise_coastal_waters_f0v1.zip
(ZIP archive)
19.41 MB Download file
Zipped personal geodatabase with RBDs, version 1.3, polygon, vector
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wise_rbds_f1v3.zip
(ZIP archive)
279.07 MB Download file
Zipped personal geodatabase with transitional waters, version 1.0, polygon, vector
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wise_transitional_waters_f1v0.zip
(ZIP archive)
21.56 MB Download file
Zipped shapefile with Coastal waters, vector
Shapefile extracted from the WISE Coastal waters version 0.1 geodatabase. NOTE: this version is preliminary
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wise_coastal_waters_shp.zip
(ZIP archive)
11.85 MB Download file
Zipped shapefile with RBDs, version 1.3, polygon, vector
Shapefile extracted from the WISE RBDs version 1.3 geodatabase
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wise_rbds_f1v3_shp.zip
(ZIP archive)
20.04 MB Download file
Zipped shapefile with Transitional waters, vector
Shapefile extracted from WISE Transitional waters version 1.0 geodatabase
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wise_transitional_waters_shp.zip
(ZIP archive)
4.00 MB Download file
Additional information
WISE RBD attribute description, excel format
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rbd_attributes_v2.xls
(Microsoft Excel spreadsheet)
119.50 KB Download file
WISE RBDs version 1.3 attributes
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rbds_f1v3.dbf
(dBASE document)
186.90 KB Download file
WISE RBDs version 1.3 attributes
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rbds_f1v3.xls
(Microsoft Excel spreadsheet)
103.50 KB Download file
Metadata
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Last upload:
- 27 Jun 2008
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Geographical coverage:
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Geographic accuracy:
- 500 m
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Tags:
- geospatial data | vector data | WISE
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Scale of the data set:
- 1:1000000
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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 (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Methodology:
The national data sets were border harmonised using EuroGlobalMap 1:1 000 000 boundaries. The feature layer can be split into four RBD groupings by using the following queries: EU Member States RBDs: [EU_MS] = Y; non-EU Member State RBDs: [EU_MS] = N AND [intCode] = (empty); EU Member State international RBDs: [INTERNATIONAL] = Y AND [EU_MS] = Y; non-EU Member States international RBDs: [EU_MS] = N AND [INTERNATIONAL] = Y.
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Coordinate reference system:
- EPSG:3035
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Data sources
Data reported by EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland under the Water Framework Directive, Article 3. The country borders were harmonised with EuroGlobalMap, EuroGeographics, www.eurogeographics.org. Catchments in non-EU Member States were extracted from CCM1, JRC.
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Processors:
- European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ICM)
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Additional information
The geographic area of some RBDs span more than one country (such as the Danube) and these are known as International RBDs. Others are contained completely within a country and are known as National RBDs. River basin districts are defined as the area of land and sea, made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters and coastal waters, which is identified under Article 3(1) as the main unit for management of river basins. Coastal waters are defined as one nautical mile from the coastline and extending, where appropriate, up to the outer limit of transitional waters. Coastal waters are included in RBDs, but this is not consistenly reported by Member States. Transitional waters are defined as bodies of surface water in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline in character as a result of their proximity to coastal waters but which are substantially influenced by freshwater flows. For more information about European waters, please visit the WISE portal.
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