External datasets catalogue

Projections of municipal solid waste management and greenhouse gas emissions — 12 Jun 2012

Working paper ETC/SCP working paper 4/2011

Melting trends over the Greenland ice sheet (1958–2009) from spaceborne microwave data and regional climate models — 12 Jun 2012

To study near-surface melt changes over the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) since 1979, melt extent estimates from two regional climate models were compared with those obtained from spaceborne microwave brightness temperatures using two different remote sensing algorithms.

Ice sheets and sea level: thinking outside the box — 12 Jun 2012

Until quite recently, the mass balance (MB) of the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica was poorly known and often treated as a residual in the budget of oceanic mass and sea level change. Recent developments in regional climate modelling and remote sensing, especially altimetry, gravimetry and InSAR feature tracking, have enabled us to specifically resolve the ice sheet mass balance components at a near-annual timescale. The results reveal significant mass losses for both ice sheets, caused by the acceleration of marine-terminating glaciers in southeast, west and northwest Greenland and coastal West Antarctica, and increased run-off in Greenland. At the same time, the data show that interannual variability is very significant, masking the underlying trends.

Regionally differentiated contribution of mountain glaciers and ice caps to future sea-level rise — 12 Jun 2012

The contribution to sea-level rise from mountain glaciers and ice caps has grown over the past decades. They are expected to remain an important component of eustatic sea-level rise for at least another century, despite indications of accelerated wastage of the ice sheets.

Maximum annual extent of ice cover in the Baltic Sea — 11 Jun 2012

Maximum annual extent of ice cover in the Baltic Sea since 1720. Data only available as paper document,  MERI-Report Series of the Finnish Inst of Marine Res27: 79–91 Updated and extended by Jouni Vainio, Finnish Meteorological Institute, until 2010.

Ice Seasons 1996–2000 in Finnish Sea Areas — 11 Jun 2012

Only available as a paper report

Monthly Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent — 11 Jun 2012

The data shows monthly snow cover extent over the Northern Hemisphere

THE EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES — 07 Jun 2012

OECD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE,  Working Paper No. 285

Waste reports, Switzerland 2009 — 07 Jun 2012

BAFU-Abfallstatistik. Abfallwirtschaftsbericht 2009

The World Factbook - Coastline — 07 Jun 2012

This entry gives the total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea.

FAOSTAT - Food Supply - Livestock and Fish Primary Equivalent — 06 Jun 2012

Food Balance Sheets (FBS) are compiled every year by FAO, mainly with country-level data on the production and trade of food commodities. Using these data and the available information on seed rates, waste coefficients, stock changes and types of utilization (feed, food, processing and other utilization), a supply/utilization account is prepared for each commodity in weight terms. The food component of the commodity account, which is usually derived as a balancing item, refers to the total amount of the commodity available for human consumption during the year. Besides commodity-by-commodity information, the FAO FBS also provide total food availability estimates by aggregating the food component of all commodities including fishery products. From these values and the available population estimates, the per person dietary energy and protein and fat supplies are derived and expressed on a daily basis. In the FBS production data refer only to primary products while data for all other elements also include processed products derived there from, expressed in primary commodity equivalent.

Demographic balance and crude rates — 24 May 2012

Eurostat

Fishing fleet, number of vessels — 24 May 2012

Fishing fleet, total engine power — 24 May 2012

Commodity Balance Sheets database — 24 May 2012

Livestock and Fish Primary Equivalent dataset (FAO)

Fishing fleet, total tonnage — 24 May 2012

Coast length — 24 May 2012

The Environmental Information Portal

Treatment of waste by waste category, hazardousness and waste management operations (env_wastrt) — 24 May 2012

Treatment of waste (in tonnes)  by waste category, hazardousness and waste management operations

Switzerland 2008 — 16 May 2012

BAFU-Abfallstatistik. Abfallwirtschaftsbericht 2008

Waste generation and treatment (env_wasgen) — 16 May 2012

Waste generation and treatment - Generation of waste by waste category, hazardousness and NACE Rev. 2 activity The information on waste treatment is broken down to five treatment types (recovery, incineration with energy recovery, other incineration, disposal on land and land treatment) and in waste categories. All values are measured in tonnes of waste and in kg per capita, based on the annual average of the population