External datasets catalogue

Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis — 03 Jan 2017

IPCC, 2013. Climate Change: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T. F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S. K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P. M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 1535 pp.  

Mediterranean Sea - High Resolution L4 Sea Surface Temperature Reprocessed — 20 Dec 2016

For the Mediterranean Sea- the CNR has reprocessed Pathfinder V5.2 (PFV52) AVHRR data over period Nov 1981-Dec 2012 to provide with daily gap-free maps (L4) at the original PFV52 resolution at 0.0417° x 0.0417°. The data are interpolated through an Optimal Interpolation algorithm.

Associations between temperature and mortality in four European cities — 16 Dec 2016

Based on Gasparrini, A., Guo, Y., Hashizume, M., Lavigne, E., Zanobetti, A., Schwartz, J., Tobias, A., Tong, S., Rocklöv, J., Forsberg, B., Leone, M., De Sario, M., Bell, M. L., Guo, Y.-L. L., Wu, C., Kan, H., Yi, S.-M., de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho, M., Saldiva, P. H. N. et al., 2015, 'Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study', Lancet 386(9991), 369–375 (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62114-0).

CO2 emissions and activity from rail (passenger and freight) transport — 13 Dec 2016

1990-2030 Environment Strategy Reporting System - The 2016 Report.

Spatial development of landtake — 09 Dec 2016

Landtake coverage - Spatial distribution of landtake in Europe over the periods 2000-2006 and 2006-2012. Landtake data aggregated to grid1km for better readability and overview in European scale map. Landtake information derived from CLC v18.5

Spatial development of landtake — 09 Dec 2016

Tourism — 01 Dec 2016

Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments by residents/non-residents - monthly data

Deoxygenation of the Baltic Sea during the last century — 30 Nov 2016

Spatial distributions of bottom hypoxia and anoxia in the Baltic Sea since 1906

A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance (dataset URL is not available) — 23 Nov 2016

Shepherd, A., Ivins, E. R., A, G., Barletta, V. R., Bentley, M. J., Bettadpur, S., Briggs, K. H., Bromwich, D. H., Forsberg, R., Galin, N., Horwath, M., Jacobs, S., Joughin, I., King, M. A., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Li, J., Ligtenberg, S. R. M., Luckman, A., Luthcke, S. B. et al., 2012, 'A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance', Science 338(6111), 1183–1189 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1228102). Data were provided directly by the first author (Andrew Shepherd).

Eurostat statistics on water (ten00020) — 22 Nov 2016

Water statistics on national level (env_nwat)   Population connected to urban wastewater collecting and treatment systems, by treatment level (ten00020)

Adaptation to climate change — 22 Nov 2016

The fight against climate change has become one of the cornerstones of the territorial action. From the Barcelona Provincial Council is a key strategy, and, in 2008, we are the regional coordinators Covenant of Mayors, key European initiative to mitigate the effects of climate change.

10 Essentials reports after the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA Local Progress Reports) — 22 Nov 2016

Local HFA progress reports assess strategic priorities in the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions and establish baselines on levels of progress achieved in implementing the HFA's five priorities for action and the 10 essentials for making cities resilient.

Covenant of Mayors — 22 Nov 2016

Indicative primary energy efficiency targets — 16 Nov 2016

Updated indicative primary energy efficiency targets as notified in the NEEAPs 2014 or in a separate notification to the European Commission in 2015 are available from the European Commission (status: October 2015)

Energy modelling — 16 Nov 2016

The European Commission’s policy decisions are underpinned by thorough analyses and impact assessments. A wide range of mathematical models and tools are used to explore policy proposals and evaluate their potential energy, transport, economic, social and environmental consequences. Models assess the effectiveness of policies already in place as well as the likely impact of policy proposals.

Gray Earth with Shaded Relief and Hypsography — 08 Nov 2016

NASA Remote Sensing data — 08 Nov 2016

Good Agricultural Environmental Conditions (GAEC 2010) — 07 Nov 2016

Good agricultural and environmental conditions, abbreviated as GAEC, refers to a set of  European Union (EU)  standards (described in Annex III of  Council Regulation 73/2009 ) defined at national or regional level, aiming at a  sustainable  agriculture. Keeping land in good agricultural and environmental conditions is directly related to issues such as: maintaining the total area of  permanent pasture . minimum level of maintenance; protection and management of water; soil erosion; soil organic matter; soil structure; These standards are to be respected by European farmers receiving direct payments or some of the rural development payments.

LUCAS Earth Observations 2012 — 07 Nov 2016

Each file contains the data for one country. This release includes all variables. 

Agri-environmental indicator - soil cover 2010 — 07 Nov 2016

This background article contains a fact sheet of the  European Union (EU)   agri-environmental indicator (AEI)   soil cover . It consists of an overview of recent data, complemented by all information on  definitions ,  measurement methods  and  context  needed to interpret them correctly. This article is part of a set of  similar fact sheets  providing a complete picture of the state of the agri-environmental indicators in the EU.