Overview of national databases for coastal monitoring
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Introduction
In many countries national databases are available with extensive physical, chemical and biological information. This article provides provides links to several websites where these databases can be accessed. An overview of national databases is also available at the SEA-SEARCH website with an overview of all national Marine Data & Information Centres in Europe.
Pan-European
SeaDataNet is a standardized distributed system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the European oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems.
SeaDataNet aims to develop an efficient distributed Pan-European Marine Data Management Infrastructure for managing these large and diverse data sets. The objective is to network the existing professional data centres of 35 countries, active in data collection, and provide integrated databases of standardized quality on-line. SeaDataNet is an EU FP6 project (2006-2011).
France
The national database in France SISMER is operated by IFREMER
Germany
- NOKIS - Information Infrastructure for the North and Baltic Seais an information system for the North and the Baltic Sea with the aim of shared internet-based use of existing geodata, hosted by the German Coastal Engineering Research Council KFKI. NOKIS++ is a project which investigates the implementation of information infrastructures as part of Integrated Coastal Zone Management.
- MUDAB - Marine Environmental Data Base Germany is the primary database for marine environmental monitoring data collected by German federal states and state agencies, operated by the German Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC).
- CONTIS - Continental Shelf Research Information System Germany is an ocean data base developed by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) visualising geodata of present and future uses of the marine environment.
- The coastDat database is operated by the Institute for Coastal Research at GKSS providing atmospheric, oceanic, sea state and other parameters for the North Sea and NE Atlantic as results from either reconstructions or future projections based on numerical models driven by observed data or climate change scenarios.
The Netherlands
National databases in the Netherlands are operated by Rijkswaterstaat, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management as well as Marine Information Service (MARIS) and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Royal NIOZ)[1]. An overview of databases for point data is given in the article Marine Information Service (MARIS) in The Netherlands.
Rijkswaterstaat has specific databases available for:
- chemical and physical data
- seagrass and phytoplankton distribution
- physics, including waves and tides
United Kingdom
An overview about national databases in the United Kingdom is given by the article Set of website addresses to direct to databases/ data sets
Italy
The Italian Sea WAve monitoring Network (SWAN) is a network of 10 buoys moored all round the coasts of Italy (Arena et al., 1997). It has been working since June 1989 (Archetti and Franco, 1995) with the original 8 stations of Alghero, La Spezia, Ponza, Mazara, Catania, Monopoli, and Ortona. Two stations, Cetraro and Ancona, have been added since 1999. The buoy network SWAN has been appointed by the italian Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services (APAT ) and has been the first real-time updated Network in the Mediterranean sea.
The Italian Tide gauge Network Rete Mareografica Nazionale, operated by the Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services APAT, includes 26 new survey stations uniformly distributed across the Italian territory and located mainly within the harbours of Trieste, Venezia Lido, Ancona, Ravenna, Pescara, Ortona, Isole Tremiti, Vieste, Bari, Otranto, Taranto, Crotone, Reggio Calabria, Messina, Catania, Porto Empedocle, Lampedusa, Palermo, Palinuro, Salerno, Napoli, Cagliari, Carloforte, Porto Torres, Civitavecchia, Livorno, Genova and Imperia.
See also
- Reduction of uncertainties through Data Model Integration (DMI)
- Database of useful links - Theme 6
- MURSYS - Marine Environment Reporting System Germany
- ICZM and Information Systems
References
Archetti, R. and Franco, L. 1995. New analysis of wave data recorded around the Italian seas. PIANC- AIPCN Congress, pp. 151-166 Arena, G., Corsini, S. and Guiducci, F. 1997. Activities of the National Hydrographic And Oceanographic Service in the maritime field. PIANC- AIPCN Congress
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