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HELCOM/OSPAR Ballast water observations
Citation
HELCOM/OSPAR Joint Ballast Water Exemptions Decision Support Tool: https://maps.helcom.fi/website/RA_tool/ HELCOM and OSPAR, 2020. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/7927
Contact:
Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) ;
OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic
Availability:
To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.
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Archived raw data available. Contact data@vliz.be for more information.
Description
This dataset includes the data used in in the HELCOM/OSPAR Ballast Water Exemptions Decision Support Tool. This tool was developed in 2013 based on the overall IMO framework, the 21 Baltic and North-East Atlantic coastal states and the EU. It allows user to define 'low risk' routes, as well as other necessary steps in granting exemptions under regulation A-4 of the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention (BWMC)
Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Ballast water, Invasive species, OSPAR Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme, EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -15,4213; MinLat: 28,1286 - MaxLong: 27,1669; MaxLat: 63,8603 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -15,4213; MinLat: 28,1286 - MaxLong: 27,1669; MaxLat: 63,8603 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
20 June 2012 - 19 September 2019
Parameter
Practical salinity of the water body by computation using UNESCO 1983 algorithm [BODC]
Contributors
Helsinki Commission (HELCOM), data provider
OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, data provider
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring
Metadatarecord created: 2021-11-30
Information last updated: 2023-03-02