Alternate title

World River Sediment Yields

Date

Identifier

Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column | Concentration of suspended particulate material {SPM} per unit volume of the water body | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | World River Sediment Yields

Purpose

Data on annual sediment yields in worldwide rivers

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Used by challenges

• MedSea - CH07 - River Inputs

Environmental matrix

• Fresh water

Production mode

• Delayed

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Hydrography

Processing level of characteristics

• Observation (raw, QC)

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Concentration of suspended particulate material {SPM} per unit volume of the water body

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Concentration of suspended particulate material

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Suspended particulate material

Service extent

• The datasets are provided through an EU Inspire catalogue service (OGC)

Visibility

• Search via reference catalogue (e.g. MyOcean, GEOSS Geoportal…)

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Validation

• Submitted

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

100  

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Long-term sediment flux (concentration) trends

Impact of dams in sediment retention, impact on river delta evolution

Begin date

1984-01-01T00:00:00

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• Ascii ()

• Excel files ()

• ESRI Shapefile ()

Protocol

WWW:LINK

Protocol

WWW:LINK

Name

Identifier of the dataset in the catalogue

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/catalogues/index2.stm

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

File identifier

b2312de7-25ea-45aa-a596-e0d42d30a935 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

MedSea - CH07 - River Inputs

Date stamp

2017-08-24T12:28:58Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0