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Birger Bjerkeng Norwegian Institute for Water Research

Status of Waterbase TCM (Transitional, Coastal, Marine) Update 2002 Presentation for MCM meeting Brest, 31. March - 1. April, 2003 Revised May 19, 2003. Birger Bjerkeng Norwegian Institute for Water Research. Work plan/time schedule.

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Birger Bjerkeng Norwegian Institute for Water Research

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  1. Status of Waterbase TCM (Transitional, Coastal, Marine) Update 2002Presentation for MCM meeting Brest, 31. March - 1. April, 2003Revised May 19, 2003 Birger Bjerkeng Norwegian Institute for Water Research

  2. Work plan/time schedule • Request with revised Guidelines issued by EEA to country NFPs and conventions 8 November, 2002 • Deadline for data deliveries 31 January 2003 • Waterbase TCM update February - March 2003 - ongoing.

  3. Requested data to Waterbase TCM according to in EWN Guidelines • Nutrients, oxygen, chorophyllin seawater (raw data) • Contaminant concentrations (raw data): • Seawater (limited set) • Biota • Sediment • Yearly input loads: • Direct • Riverine • Proxy Pressures

  4. Conventions: • ICES • Received new dataset to replace previously submitted data on contaminants in biota andnutrients/eutrophication in seawater(recent resubmitted due to discovered errors)- cover OSPAR and HELCOM countries,awaits supplementary information on biota data • OSPAR • Input data from countries for 2001,supplementing previous data - (other data received directly from ICES) • HELCOM • No input data received (status environment report received - Baltic sea 1994-1998) • MEDPOL • Database in test phase, provides site and institution overview already, not yet data access

  5. Countries with data delivered by repository or e-mail: CDR: Central Data Repository CIRCA: National EIONET CIRCA Server

  6. Countries with no marine data in 2002 Update

  7. Countries with no information about data delivery in Update 2002 Albania, Azerbaijan,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,Croatia, Georgia,Iran, Kazakhstan,Moldova, Monaco,Russian Federation,Turkey, Turkmenistan,Ukraine, Yugoslavia (Montenegro) Countries marked in green: participate in MEDPOL Phase III (MEDPOL database)

  8. Comments: • Guidelines have been followed to varying degree in submitted data • Even with guidelines, there is considerable work with harmonizing determinand codes, units, and other data descriptors. • Delivery of important data are still pending, and efforts are being made to get more data or supplementary information (UK, ICES) • Semi-automated tools are developedfor data check, comparison andimport into Waterbase TCM, will make task easier in the future

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