External datasets catalogue

Changes in number of ozone exceedance days — 09 Nov 2011

A day is counted as an exceedence day when the daily maximal 8-hr-average ozone concentration exceeds 60 ppbV.

Impacts of Climate Change on European Forests and Options for Adapation — 08 Nov 2011

This study compiles and summarizes the existing knowledge about observed and projected impacts of climate change on forests in Europe and reviews options for forests and forestry to adapt to climate change. It has been commissioned by the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission as an initial exploration of this complex issue.

Projected crop yield changes — 08 Nov 2011

The objective of the PESETA-Agriculture study is to provide a European assessment of the potential effects of climate change on agricultural crop production and monetary estimates of these impacts for the European agricultural sector. The future scenarios incorporate socio economic projections derived from several SRES scenarios and climate projections obtained from global climate models and regional climate models.

Number of people flooded across Europe's coastal areas — 08 Nov 2011

Results of the physical impacts and adaptation cost assessment of sea-level rise for the European Union are presented for the A2 and B2 SRES socio-economic storylines and for a range of plausible sea-level rise scenarios, using data from the ECHAM4 and HADCM3 Global Climate Models (GCMs) models. In addition, to better understand the sensitivity of the results to the magnitude of sea-level rise, the full IPCC (2001) range of sea level rise predictions and scenarios of no climate change have also been modelled. These results are all derived using the global Dynamic Interactive Vulnerability Assessment (DIVA) tool for assessing regional to global coastal impacts and adaptation.

Losses from river floods — 08 Nov 2011

Direct damages as per mille GDP Number of casualties

Effect of temperature on food poisoning — 07 Nov 2011

The relationship between environmental temperature and reported Salmonella infections in 10 European populations. Data on laboratory-confirmed cases of Salmonella infection were obtained from national surveillance centres in the Czech Republic, Denmark, England and Wales, Estonia, The Netherlands, Scotland, Slovak Republic, Poland, Switzerland, and Spain.

Aedes albopictus distribution — 07 Nov 2011

Exotic mosquitoes - distribution maps Exotic mosquitoes - Surveillance maps  

Heat effects on mortality — 07 Nov 2011

Exposure-response functions for 15 cities: Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Dublin, Helsinki, Ljubljana, London, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stockholm, Turin, Valencia, and Zurich. Population size and percentage of elderly (≤75 years). 

EFFIS data — 07 Nov 2011

The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) supports the services in charge of the protection of forests against fires in the EU countries and provides the European Commission services and the European Parliament with updated and reliable information on wildland fires in Europe.  

Change of habitat suitability coverage of European Forest Categories — 04 Nov 2011

The potential distribution of forest tree species is modeled using machine learning CART (classification and regression tree analysis) and Random Forest (RF) algorithms. Maps corresponding to RFregression and RF classification algorithms are available for download with further description on this website. Presence / absence records of the most dominant European tree species are used to process a RF classification in order to predict the presence/ absence of each species and a RF regression to predict continuous values from absence to presence of that species.

Cereal crop impacts versus incremental temperature change — 04 Nov 2011

% yield change by mean local temperature change in degrees C for wheat,maize and rice

Grapevine and climatic change — 04 Nov 2011

Meteorological data recorded since 1972 at the INRA Station in Colmar (Alsace, France). Phenological data recorded on INRA grapevine collections over the same period.

Monitoring Agricultural ResourceS (MARS) — 03 Nov 2011

 For the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy, the European Commission needs timely information on the agricultural production to be expected in the current season. This is a main concern of the MARS-project (Monitoring Agricultural ResourceS) of the AGRI4CAST and FOODSEC units of the Directorate General Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra (Italy).     Available products include:     Graphs and maps of weather indicators based on observations and numerical weather models     Graphs and maps of crop indicators based on agro-meteorological models     Graphs and maps of vegetation indices and cumulated dry matter based on remote sensing images

Daily Soil Moisture of Europe — 03 Nov 2011

Continuous simulations with the LISFLOOD model within the European Flood Alert System produce daily soil moisture maps of Europe. This information provides an instantaneous image of the current situation of the water content as modelled by LISFLOOD . Meteorological input information is derived from measured and spatially interpolated meteorological point data provided by the MARS-STAT activity of IPSC-JRC (so called JRC-MARS data). Due to the reception via the Global Telecommunication System of WMO and further processing the data are typically one to two days behind the current date. Within EFAS the simulations with JRC-MARS data provide the initial conditions for various simulations in the flood forecasting mode. The spatial resolution of LISFLOOD on the pan-European scale is currently at 5 km.   Information on soil moisture is presented in form of soil suction (pF) values of the top soil layer that commonly range between 1.5 for very wet conditions up to 5.0 for very dry soils. The pF value describes the forces necessary for plants to apply in order to extract water from the soil for their use. It incorporates variations in the water holding capacity of different soil types and thus allows for comparison of the soil water status at different locations throughout Europe.

Soil erosion risk assessment in Europe — 03 Nov 2011

Factors influencing erosion have been graded for the diverse geographical situations existing in Europe and erosion mechanisms have been expressed with the help of experimental and expert-defined empirical rules. Land cover and crust formation on cultivated soils were considered as key factors influencing runoff and erosion risk. A soil geographical database has been created for Europe, and a model of erosion risk has been developed using a Geographical Information System (GIS). The model uses empirical rules to combine data on land use (CORINE Land Cover database), soil crusting susceptibility, soil erodibility (determined by pedotransfer rules from the Soil Geographical Data Base of Europe at scale 1:1 Million), relief (USGS HYDRO1K digital elevation model), and meteorological data at a 1 x 1 k m pixel size (Space Applications Institute, Ispra Joint Research Center). Spatial units for the presentation of results are defined using either administrative units or watershed catchment units.

National Soils Inventory (NSI) — 03 Nov 2011

National Soil Inventory (NSI) data is a set of point data. NSI data covers England and Wales on a 5 km grid and provides detailed information for each intersect of the grid. Collectively NSI data are statistically representative of England and Wales soils and they offer a valuable foundation for future monitoring of soil quality. The original sampling was from around 1980 and there have been partial resamplings in the mid-1990s. NSI site includes erosion, landuse and lithological information. NSI profile gives a very detailed soil description including stone abundance, root descriptions and boundary information. NSI topsoil gives detailed measurements of over 20 elements from the soils, in addition to pH. NSI textures describes the soil texture. NSI features provides depth data to various layers and includes a flood risk indicator.

Trends in trophically interacting species — 03 Nov 2011

Species specific differences in the reaction to climate change can become particularly important when interacting species are considered. Current studies have evidenced temporal mismatching of interacting species at single points in space, and recently two investigations showed that species interactions are relevant for their future ranges. However, so far we are not aware that the ranges of interacting species may become substantially spatially mismatched. We developed separate ecological-niche models for a monophagous butterfly (Boloria titania) and its larval host plant (Polygonum bistorta) based on monthly interpolated climate data, land-cover classes, and soil data at a 100-grid resolution. We show that all of three chosen global-change scenarios, which cover a broad range of potential developments in demography, socio-economics, and technology during the 21st century from moderate to intermediate to maximum change, will result in a pronounced spatial mismatch between future niche spaces of these species.

Trends in avian breeding and migration in Europe — 03 Nov 2011

In this study we aim to show how laying dates for a long-distance migrant, the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), and a short-distance migrant, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), have changed over their European breeding grounds during the last 25 yr.

Emission factors for treatment of kitchen and garden waste — 03 Nov 2011

Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg GmbH

Environmental accounts (Eurostat) — 03 Nov 2011

Environmental Accounts (EA) track the links between the environment and the economy at EU, national, regional and industry level.