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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/doc/dataset/7927
Contact: Helsinki Commission (HELCOM), more ; OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, more
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Archived data
Availability: CC0 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.
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)
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Ballast water, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Invasive species, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, OSPAR Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, 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]
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), more, data provider
OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, more, data provider
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information:
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Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring
Release date: 2022-01-26
Metadatarecord created: 2021-11-30
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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