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Waterbase - Lake monitoring stations: Waterbase - map of lake monitoring stations

EEA potential flood-prone area extent: The EEA potential flood prone area extent delineates the area that is flooded once every 100 years, i.e. the probability of flooding is 1% assuming that flooding is unrestricted. The potential flood prone area is comprised of the river channel and floodplain. In reality, the floodplain is split into an active floodplain where flooding still occurs, and former floodplain where flooding is restricted due to flood protection. The former floodplain could be flooded again either if a flood exceeds the capacity of flood protection, or if factors that control the presence of water were removed. These factors include channel and floodplain morphological alterations as well as structural flood protection measures. The spatial coverage of the data set is EEA39 countries.

Risk of collision with whales in Europe Seas: This raster dataset represents risk of collision of whales with vessels in the Europe Seas. Species included are: Blue whale, Sei whale, Humpback whale, Sperm whale, Fin whale and Northern right whale. The northern right whale model only describes the range of the western population of this species, since the eastern population is probably almost extinct. Thus, the northern right whale model only partly overlaps with the EEA area on interest.

European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC/ICM): The ETC/ICM is an international consortium brought together to support the EEA in its mission to deliver timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy-makers and the public for the development and implementation of sound environmental policies in the European Union and other EEA member countries.

Combined effects of human activities and pressures: The potential combined effects of human activities and pressures on marine species and habitats were estimated using the method for assessment of cumulative effects, for the entire suite of pressures and a selected set of marine species groups and habitats by an index (Halpern et al. 2008). The spatial assessment of combined effects of multiple pressures informs of the risks of human activities on the marine ecosystem health.

Combined effects of sea-based pressures on marine species and habitats in Europe's seas: The map describes the combined effects index values for pressures on marine species and habitats in Europe's seas. The relative values indicate areas where the pressures potentially affect the marine ecosystem. The table shows the spatial coverage of the sea-based pressures in three marine zones

Mean winter surface concentrations of nitrate and nitrite in the Mediterranean Sea, 2004: Mean winter surface concentrations of nitrate (combined nitrate and nitrite) in the Mediterranean Sea (1999-2005, Jan-Feb, 0-10 m)

Mean summer surface concentrations of chlorophyll a in the Mediterranean Sea, 2003: Coastal stations are marked by circles

Mean winter surface concentrations of phosphate in the Black Sea, 2003: Coastal stations are marked by circles and ICES open-water stations (&gt;20 km from coast) by squares

Waterbase - River monitoring stations: Waterbase - map of river monitoring stations

Probability of occurrence of whales in the Europe Seas: This raster dataset represents the probability of occurrence of whales in the Europe Seas, where the species included are: Blue whale, Sei whale, Humpback whale, Sperm whale, Fin whale and Northern right whale.

Mean winter surface concentrations of phosphate in the Mediterranean Sea, 2004: Mean winter surface concentrations of phosphate (combined phosphate and nitrite) in the Mediterranean Sea (1999-2005, Jan-Feb, 0-10 m)

Mean summer surface concentrations of chlorophyll A en the Baltic Sea Area, 2003: Coastal stations are marked by circles and ICES open-water stations by squares

Mean winter surface nitrate/phosphate-ratio in the Greater North Sea, the Celtic Seas and the Northeast Atlantic, 2003: Coastal stations are marked by circles and ICES open-water stations (&gt;20 km from coast) by squares

Mean winter surface nitrate/phosphate-ratio in the Mediterranean Sea, 2003: Coastal stations are marked by circles and ICES open-water stations (&gt;20 km from coast) by squares

Combined effects of human activities and pressures: The map describes combined effects index values for pressures caused by human activities. The relative values indicate areas where the pressures potentially affect the marine ecosystem. The charts shows the ranking of key groups of pressures causing ecosystem effects and ecosystem components being affected by them in Europe’s seas

Coverage of marine protected areas in Europe's seas: The table shows the percentage cover of MPAs and distance to 10% target for each regional and sub regional sea and by distance zone from the coastline modified from the report: Spatial analysis of Marine Protected Area Networks in Europe´s seas. EEA Technical report, no 17/2015

EEA marine assessment areas: The EEA marine assessment vector areas are harmonised units used for statistics. The assessment areas allow the consistent calculation of status and trends in the EU waters, e.g. for marine protected areas coverage.