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| ICES Oceanographic Database and Services |
A substantial amount of activity in some ICES Member Country laboratories is involved in the routine collection of data. ICES maintains a bank of oceanographic data supplied by Member Countries, dating back to the early 1900s. ICES does not demand a rigid data format for submission, though all data are dispatched to requesters in the ICES Oceanographic format or a comma delimited file.
This databank is supplemented by an inventory of cruise information, based on Cruise Summary Reports (CSR/ROSCOP), which summarize all cruise activities in Member Countries related to physical oceanographic, marine biological, pollution, fisheries, and geophysical research.
The ICES Service Hydrographique, amongst other things maintains various data banks, most of which have been passed on to the World Data Centre (A) for Oceanography in order to include data and information into their global archive. The Sevice is responsible for various databases including:
Please visit the website for more information on the projects and the presentation of the data.
| The Danish National Marine Monitoring Program - MADS |
The Danish National Aquatic Monitoring and Assessment Program (DNAMAP) was initiated in 1989 as a joint collaboration between 15 Danish counties and the National Environmental Research Institute (NERI). It was later revised in 1993 and 1998. The marine part of DNAMAP is maintained by the Department of Marine Ecology (NERI) and covers a wide range of monitoring variables:
The monitoring program consists of a large number of stations that are sampled regularly. The data is stored in a database, called MADS, hosted by NERI. The database is updated annually with data submitted by the Danish counties. Data can be downloaded in either raw or aggregated form from the web-site, which at present is only available in Danish. The English version will be implemented in 2003. This site is also accessible from NERIs homepage.
Please visit the website for more information on the project and the presentation of the data.
| The Sound Water Co-operation database |
The Sound Water Co-operation is the name of a co-operation agreement which was signed in 1995 by Danish and Swedish counties and local councils around the Sound. The purpose of the agreement is to provide for a nice aquatic environment in the Sound.
The parties to the agreement are: Burlöv Council, Frederiksborg County, Græsted-Gilleleje council, the City of Helsingborg, Helsingør Council, Höganäs Council, Kävlinge Council, Copenhagen County, the City of Copenhagen, Køge Council, Landskrona Council, Lomma Council, Skåne County, the City of Malmö, Vellinge Council and Roskilde County.
The Sound Water Co-operation during the period 1999-2001 runs a combined model project and data base project which is co-financed by means of EU-interreg funds and contributions from the participating parties.
The parties have agreed that the relevant environmental data must be made available across national, regional and local boundaries in a common data base for the Sound in order to provide an overview of the environmental condition of the Sound. The parties to the agreement have worked on this project in 2000-2001 in co-operation with the DHI- Institute for Water and Environment, Denmark. The data base which is accessible via the Internet is a linking of several Danish and Swedish data bases. It consists of two parts: A "register part" describing the data and the data bases, which are available, and a second part consisting of the actual data bases. These contain information about ecotoxic substances, water chemistry, hydrology and bottom fauna in the Sound.
Please visit the website for more information on the project and the presentation of the data.
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