Alternate title

Med-Hycos

Date

Identifier

River flow and discharge | Riverine discharge of water | Institute of Research for Development (IRD) | Med-Hycos

Purpose

Implementation of a network of real time Data Collecting Platforms on the main rivers of the Mediterranean countries

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)

• River flow and discharge

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Hydrography

Processing level of characteristics

• Observation (raw, QC)

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Riverine discharge of water

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Riverine discharge of water

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Fluxes

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Visibility

• Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

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 freshwater discharge and water temperature changes

Long-term freshwater inputs in the Mediterranean, impact of climate change in temperature changes

Begin date

1997-05-25T00:00:00

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• Ascii ()

• Excel files ()

• ESRI Shapefile ()

OnLine resource

http://medhycos.mpl.ird.fr/ ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

Identifier of the dataset in the catalogue ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

1.UNEP/MAP/MED POL (2003), Riverine transport of water, sediments and pollutants to the Mediterranean Sea, Tech. Rep. 141, U. N. Environ. Programme Mediter. Action Plan, Athens, Greece. 2.Ludwig W., E. Dumont, M. Meybeck, S. Heussner (2009). River discharges of water and nutrients to the Mediterranean and Black Sea:Major drivers for ecosystem changes during past and future decades? Progress in Oceanography 80, 199–217

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

File identifier

564e13f4-37e9-4328-993e-f868440da011 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

MedSea - CH07 - River Inputs

Date stamp

2017-08-24T12:28:54Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0