River Data Inventory
European Commission links concerning WFD and nutrients
This section provides an exhaustive list of existing geoportals, databases, projects and publications of freshwater and riverine inputs to the sea. It is a reference to the available data sources for nutrients loads from major rivers: OSPAR has estimates of nutrients and metals loads from major rivers; the local authority has made a report in the Black Sea; EEA collects data for Danube; UNEP published data from rivers, etc.
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
- Wiser (Water Bodies in Europe - integrative systems to assess ecological status and recovery) metadatabase
Projects
- Perseus Atlas of Riverine Inputs to the Mediterranean Sea
- 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)
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