River Data Inventory
European Commission links concerning WFD and nutrients
- Links to the official WFD implementation web sites of the EU Member states
- European Commission CIRCABC (Communication and Information Resource Centre for Administrations, Businesses and Citizens) library (framework_directive implementation_documents)
Projects
- Perseus Project
- Freshwater Information Platform, the network for freshwater research
- MARS Project (Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stress)
- WISER Project (Water Bodies in Europe - integrative systems to assess ecological status and recovery)
Geoportals
- EEA Map Service Directory:
- Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme. River Basins
- Danube River Basin Geographic Information System
- Helcom Map and Data Service. Riverine loads
- Emodnet BalticSea Checkpoint, challenge 9, river input Baltic Sea
Databases
- Danube River Basin Water Quality Database - Data access under registration -
- EEA WISE WFD Database – Not public - data from River Basin Management Plans reported by EU Members States according to WFD, last update 2012
- EEA WISE WFD reference spatial data sets
- EEA Waterbase - Water Quality - data on nutrients, organic matter, hazardous substances and other chemical substances in surface water and groundwater (1960-2014)
- EIONET CDR Central Data Repository (inside the countries, EEA requests, River Quality data. Not all countries give public access to these datasets )
- Emodnet MedSea Checkpoint, challenge 7, River inputs
- HYdrological Predictions for the Environment (HYPE) from Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
- OECD environmental statistics. Lake and river quality. Data on amonium, nitrates and phosphorous in rivers, 1997-2013
- PERSEUS Oceanographic Mediterranean and Black SeaData Management
- Wiser (Water Bodies in Europe - integrative systems to assess ecological status and recovery) metadatabase
Links to different country services which provide data of water quality
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
- Datasets from Germany's web data portal
- Geo Data Portal Germany Water Framework Directive 2015
Greece
Ireland
Lithuania
Netherlands
Portugal
Sweden
United Kingdom
- Datasets on river water quality from data.gov.uk
- Water quality data archive from UK Environment Agency
Reports and Articles
- Andersen, J. H., Carstensen, J., Conley, D. J., Dromph, K., Fleming-Lehtinen, V., Gustafsson, B. G., … Murray, C., 2015, Long-term temporal and spatial trends in eutrophication status of the Baltic Sea
- Bouraoui, F., Grizzetti, B., Long term change of nutrient concentrations of rivers discharging in European seas, In Science of The Total Environment, Volume 409, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 4899-4916, ISSN 0048-9697
- Diamantini, E., Lutz, S., Mallucci, S., Majone, B., Merz, R., Bellin, A., Driver detection of water quality trends in three large European river basins, In Science of The Total Environment, Volume 612, 2018, Pages 49-62, ISSN 0048-9697
- EEA Report, 07/2005, Source apportionment of nitrogen and phosphorus inputs into the aquatic environment
- EEA Report 08/2012, European waters — assessment of status and pressures
- Grizzetti, B., Pistocchi, A., Liquete, C., Udias, A., Bouraoui, F., Bund, W., (2017). Human pressures and ecological status of European rivers. Scientific Reports
- HELCOM, 2014. Nutrient loads to the Baltic Sea from Leningrad Oblast and transboundary rivers
- International Commission for the protection of the Elbe. International measurement program
- Joint Research Center. Technical reports. 2014. Managing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loads to Water Bodies: Characterisation and Solutions
- Joint Research Center. Technical reports. 2011. Long term nutrient loads entering European seas
- Levi, L., Cvetkovic, V., Destouni, G., Data-driven analysis of nutrient inputs and transfers through nested catchments, In Science of The Total Environment, Volumes 610–611, 2018, Pages 482-494, ISSN 0048-9697
- Malagó, A., Bouraoui, F., Vigiak, O., Grizzetti, B., Pastori, M., Modelling water and nutrient fluxes in the Danube River Basin with SWAT, In Science of The Total Environment, Volumes 603–604, 2017, Pages 196-218, ISSN 0048-9697
- OECD environmental data. Compendium 2006–2008. Inland Waters, OECD, Paris (2008)
- Perseus Project, Deliverable 2.5, Response of pelagic ecosystems to coastal pressures in different subregions of the SES, - not publicly accessible -
- Perseus Project, Deliverable 2.1, Identification of pressures and their impacts on coastal ecosystems and gap analysis, - not publicly accessible -
- Romero, E., Garnier, J., Lassaletta, L. et al., Large-scale patterns of river inputs in southwestern Europe: seasonal and interannual variations and potential eutrophication effects at the coastal zone, In Biogeochemistry, 2013, 113: 481
- Skoulikidis, N., The environmental state of rivers in the Balkans—A review within the DPSIR framework, In Science of The Total Environment, Volume 407, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2501-2516, ISSN 0048-9697
- Tsiaras, K. P., Petihakis, G., Kourafalou, V.H., Triantafyllou, G., Impact of the river nutrient load variability on the North Aegean ecosystem functioning over the last decades, In Journal of Sea Research, Volume 86, 2014, Pages 97-109, ISSN 1385-1101
- UNEP(DEPI)/MED WG.379/Inf.7 Report of the nutrient riverine inputs, 2013
- UNEP/MAP.PERSEUS – UNEP/MAP Report, 2015.Atlas of Riverine Inputs to the Mediterranean Sea.ISBN: 978-960-9798-17-4