Waterbase - Groundwater

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expired Created 06 May 2009 Published 06 May 2009 Last modified 16 Jun 2014

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Waterbase - Groundwater

Topics: Water ,

This content has been archived on 16 Jun 2014, reason: Other (Access to earlier versions of Waterbase-Groundwater data files have been restricted to authorised users only.)

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

European data

Waterbase-Groundwater: Microsoft Access database (2 tables)

Database contains all data tables. Detailed table definitions are displayed in the section with individual tables.

Additional information

Tables metadata

File contains metadata definitions of all data tables.

Tables metadata (text/comma-separated-values)
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Country codes and abbreviations (37 records)

Table contains list of ISO 3166 alpha 2 code elements used in Waterbase-Groundwater version 9

Country codes and abbreviations (37 records) (text/comma-separated-values)
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QA documentation

Quality control documentation briefly presents ETC/Water and EEA activities focused on quality of Waterbase-Groundwater dataset and results of these activities. In addition warning is given on the use of certain records for analytical purposes.

QA documentation (PDF document)
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Metadata

Reporting obligations (ROD)

Groundwater quality (EWN-3)

Temporal coverage:

1960-2007

Last upload:

29 Apr 2009

Geographic coverage:

Albania , Austria , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macedonia (FYR) , Malta , Montenegro , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , United Kingdom

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).

Disclaimer:

Data in Waterbase are sub-samples of national data assembled for the purpose of providing comparable indicators of pressures, state and impact of waters on a Europe-wide scale and the data sets are not intended for assessing compliance with any European Directive or any other legal instrument. Information on the national and sub-national scales should be sought from other sources.

Methodology:

Used tools: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel Applied procedures: QA checks have been performed on original delivery. Results have been stored in special QA fields. Some erroneous values have been cleaned. Detail are described in QA documentation. MDB database was created by export from SQL Server. Text fields were cleared of trailing spaces. Simple relation structure was added. Whole database was compacted. XLS, CSV files was created from MDB database tables. special features: CSV files - text qualifier is ' " ' character, field separator is ',' character, line breaks were changed to <br /> string.

Units:

Simazine, Lindane, Atrazine: µg/l
Dissolved Oxygen, Ammonium, Nitrite, Nitrate: mg/l

Data sources

The European Topic Centre on Water. Version 9, date of delivery (date sent to the Data Service): 24/04/2009.

Owners:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Processors:

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

Additional information

Waterbase contains timely, reliable and policy-relevant data collected from EEA member countries through the WISE-SoE data collection (formerly known as Eionet-Water and Eurowaternet) process. WISE-SoE data collection 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 WISE-SoE data collection 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.