On-Going Inventory of the existing Environment Marine Indicators for the European Seas
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| Ilegal Discharges of oil | |||
| HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Comission | Pollution | Baltic Sea | 1988-2006 |
| Annual number of observed illegal discharges by aerial surveillance in the whole Baltic Sea area in 1989-2006; Location of oil spillages observed by aerial surveillance within the Baltic Sea Area in 2006 with a total of 236 observations; Compiled data on performed flight hours by country in 1989-2006; Compiled data on observed illegal oil discharges by country in 1988-2006 |
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| Caesium - 137 in sediments | |||
| HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Comission | Pollution | Baltic Sea | 1984-2006 |
| Total amounts of Cs-137 (Bq m-2) at different sampling stations of the Baltic Sea in 1984 - 2006 | |||
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| Trace metals in Baltic Sea Waters | |||
| HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Comission | Pollution | Baltic Sea | 1993-2006 |
| Distribution of Cadmium (Cd) and Lead (Pb) in the dissolved and particulate phases in surface waters of the Baltic Sea; Distribution of mercury (total) in surface waters of the Baltic Sea; Trends for dissolved (diss) and particulate bounded (SPM) lead in the western Baltic Sea, and"above" and "below" halocline in the central Baltic Sea between 1993-2006; Trends for dissolved (diss) and particulate bounded (SPM) cadmium in the western Baltic Sea, and "above" and "below" halocline in the central Baltic Sea between 1993-2006; Trends for total mercury in the western Baltic Sea, and"above" and "below" halocline in the central Baltic Sea between 1993-2006. |
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| Accidental and illegal discharges of oil by ships at sea | |||
| EEA | Pollution | Eu-15 / Baltic and North Sea | 1990-2000 |
| Tonnes of oil spilled accidentally in the EU-15; Annual number of observed oil slicks per flight hour in the Baltic Sea and North Sea (1990-2000). |
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| Accidental and illegal discharges of oil by ships at sea | |||
| EEA | Pollution | Europe / Baltic and North Sea | 1989-1998 |
| Accidential oil spills (above 7 tonnes per spill) from tankers, combined carriers and barges in Europe, 1989-1998; Annual number of oil slicks from illegal discharges observed by aerial surveillance in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, 1990-1998. |
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| Input of hazardous substances in the north-east atlantic | |||
| EEA | Pollution | North-east Atlantic | 1990-1998 |
| Direct and riverine inputs of hazardous substances into the north-east Atlantic (zinc, lindane, lead, cadmiun, PCB7, mercury) 1990-1998 | |||
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| Hazardous substances in blue mussels in the North East Atlantic | |||
| EEA | Pollution | North-east Atlantic | 1990-1996 |
| Hazardous substances in blue mussels in the North East Atlantic (zinc, lindane, lead, cadmiun, mercury) 1990-1996 | |||
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| Hazardous substances in marine organisms and loads to coastal waters | |||
| EEA | Pollution | Mediterranean Sea / North-east Atlantic | 1980s-1990s |
| Concentration of selected metals and organic substances in mussels in the Mediterranean Sea (cadmiun, mercury, lead, lindane) and the north-east Atlantic Ocean (cadmiun, mercury, lead, DDT, PCB), 1980s-1990s | |||
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| Water exchange and conditions in the deep basins | |||
| HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Comission | Water | North Sea /Baltic Sea | 1997-2007 |
| Areas with oxygen deficiency and hydrogen sulphide in the near bottom layer of the Baltic Sea in May in the years 2004 – 2007; Temperature series 1997-2005 of the EGB mooring near the Gotland Deep at 174, 204 and 219 m depth; Temperature series 2006-2007 of the EGB mooring near the Gotland Deep at 178, 208 and 223 m depth; Salinity in the Gotland Deep at the surface, at 90 m, 120 m and 200 m depth from 1952 to 2006. |
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| Oxygen in the Deep Basins | |||
| HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Comission | Water | Baltic Sea | 1990-2007 |
| Time series of winter surface (< 10 m; red) and deep-water (blue) salinity in the Baltic Proper, 1990 – 2007; Time series of winter stratification strength and also of depth of the strongest stratification; Bar charts showing autumn oxygen concentration as a proportion of the volume of the deep basins. Low oxygen concentrations are not a problem in the Gulf of Bothnia; Estimates of the extent of hypoxic (oxygen content less than 2 ml/l) and anoxic (oxygen content nil; often with presence of hydrogen sulphide) in Autumn 2003 - 2006. |
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| Blue-green algae and phytoplankton sucession | |||
| HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Comission | Water | Baltic Sea | 2003 |
| The occurrence of cyanobacterial surface accumulations in the Baltic Sea during 2003 expressed as the number of days; Annual variation of surface layer phytoplankton biomass (measured as chlorophyll a mg m-3) in the western and central Gulf of Finland, the northern Baltic Proper and the Arkona Sea; Area covered by algal blooms in the Baltic Sea during the summer of 2003. |
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| Phytoplankton spring bloom | |||
| HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Comission | Water | Baltic Sea | 1992-2007 |
| Development of the spring bloom intensity from 1992 to 2007 in Arkona Basin (AB), the northern Baltic Proper (NB) and the western Gulf of Finland (GOF). | |||
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| Phytoplankton chlorophyll from satellite | |||
| HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Comission | Water | Baltic Sea | 1998-2005 |
| Chlorophyll-a concentrations derived from satellite remote sensing show a high spatial variability reaching relative high values in the Eastern and South Eastern part of the Baltic Sea; Chlorophyll concentration is an index of phytoplankton biomass and it is the most common property that characterizes marine productivity, 1998-2005. |
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| Trends in chlorophyll | |||
| HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Comission | Water | Baltic Sea | 1998-2002 |
| Variation of mean summer (July-August) surface chlorophyll concentrations in various regions of the Baltic Sea area between 1998 and 2002. Chlorophyll concentration is a proxy of phytoplankton biomass which is a primary link between nutrient reserves and the marine food web. |
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| Others | |||
| Sea Level Rise | |||
| ICCUK - Indicators of Climate Change ion the UK | Sea | UK | 1960-2004 |
| Sea Level Rise (mm) between 1960-2004 in Lowestoft, Suffolk and Newlyn, Cornwall, UK | |||
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| Chlorophyll-a in transitional, coastal and marine waters | |||
| EEA | Chemistry | Europe | 1985-2000 |
| Trends in average summer chlorophyll-a concentrations in Europe's Seas (Baltic Sea: Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden; North Sea: Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden; Mediterranean Sea: Greece ), 1985-2000 | |||
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| Classification of coastal waters | |||
| EEA | Coastal Water Quality | England and Wales; Scotland and Finland | 1985-2000 1996-1999 1994-1997 |
| Classification of estuaries in England and Wales (bad, poor, fair, good) 1985-2000; Classification of estuaries in Scotland (serious polluted, unsatisfactory, good, excellent), 1996-1999; General classification of Finnish coastal waters based on water quality data (poor, passable, good, excellent), 1994-1997 |
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| Marine Plankton | |||
| ICCUK - Indicators of Climate Change ion the UK | Sea | North Sea /UK | 1959-2000 |
| Total abundance of copepods in the North Sea; Gulf Stream position Index for April; Log abundance values of specific copepod species in the northern North Sea; winter (December-March). |
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| Selected environment data | |||
| OECD | Environment | World | Last available year |
| Selected environmental data covering land area, forests, threatened species (includes Fish (% of species known)), water includes Fish catches (% of world catches), air, waste generation, and PAC expenditure for all OECD Member countries | |||