Alternate title

Riverine Inputs and Direct Discharges to Convention Waters

Date

Identifier

Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column | Concentration of nitrate {NO3} per unit mass of the water body [unknown phase] | OSPAR Commission | Riverine Inputs and Direct Discharges to Convention Waters

Purpose

To assess, as accurately as possible, all riverine inputs and direct discharges of selected pollutants to Convention waters on an annual basis

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Annually

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH08 - Eutrophication

Environmental matrix

• Fresh water

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Hydrography

Processing level of characteristics

• Observation (raw, QC)

Data delivery mechanisms

• No information was found on data delivery mechanisms

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Concentration of nitrate {NO3} per unit mass of the water body [unknown phase]

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Concentration of nitrate per unit mass of the water body

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Validation

• Submitted

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Free of charge for academic institutions and uses

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

10000  meter

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

To assess the presence of nutrients for eutrophication assessment

Begin date

1990-01-01

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  year

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• PDF - report only with embedded data ()

OnLine resource

Riverine Inputs and Direct Discharges to Convention Waters ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

http://www.ospar.org/documents?v=7373 ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/hasec/chemicals/rid

https://portal.helcom.fi/meetings/PLC-6%206-2014-131/MeetingDocuments/4-2%20OSPAR%20RID%20guidelines.pdf

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

5

File identifier

b245be68-d0df-4ec5-bda5-a51e626af1df XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

Atlantic - CH08 - Eutrophication

Date stamp

2017-05-04T12:28:25Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0