KOSOVO3rd meeting

of the water monitoring working group

Paul HaenerInternational Office for Water

p.haener@oieau.fr

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Table of content

Remind of previous actions

Progress on hydrological database / link with wiski application (HMIK)

Database structure proposal for water quality data

Proposal for hydrological codification

Next steps

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Remind of previous actions

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Previous actions

Validating codification rules– Monitoring network– Monitoring station– Parameters

Completing datasets monitoring station

Importing hydrological data necessary for Wiski tests

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Expected steps after last meeting

Contacts to get to an inter-institutional agreement on codification principles of network, stations, parameters (Fidaim)

Complete XY for manual precipitation stations (Elfete)

Validation of monitoring, stations and parameter characteristics– XLS files to be commented and returned to Agron (all)– Actualisation of data (Agron)

Hydro data– Link with Wiski

Quality data– XY Health Institute stations (Agron)– Data structuring (PH/Agron)

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Progress on hydrological database / link with wiski application (HMIK)

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RBD

Sub-unit

Water segmentsWater bodies

Parameter

Stations

Monitoring network

Kosovo QTT monitoring data structure

QTT dataTypology

Institution

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First draft of a Kosovo monitoring database

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Liink with Wiski training

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Database structure proposal for water quality data

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Quality data

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Demo on a access data base

Demo

Next steps

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Proposal for hydrological codification

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Management of codes

MS will be responsible to– Manage their hydrological codes and non

hydrological identifiers

– To keep them consistent and unique

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Unique European codes

Following the last CIS recommendations:

„Unique European codes will be applied to

Non-hydrological reference features– River basin districts, Sub-units, Water bodies, monitoring

stations, discharge points, point sources, …

Hydrological reference features – River(sub)basins– (Main)Rivers– River Segments (reaching from confluence to confluence)– Lakes“

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Elements of the hydrological code (4)

Abbreviation Logical Element Relation to Data type Min., Max. Lenght

H or HDM_ID Coastline, Hydrological system

String 1

S or SEA_ID Coastline, Sea Hydrological system Number 1-9,

1

II or Island sort Landmass, Island sort

Sea and Hydrological system

Hexadecimal number

2

CCCCC or Commencement

Sea outlet commencement code

Sea and Hydrological system and Island

Number 11111 – 99999,

5

P or Pfafstetter River-reaches Pfafstetter

Seaoutlet Number 1-12

E or Entity type Entity type code Character 2

L or Lake identifier Lake identifier Character 0,2

Can be stored in seperate files in the database – elements can be used flexible

Data exchange – elements can be concatenated

The format of the code will be as follows: HSIICCCCCPPPPPPPPPPPPEELL

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Thank you

for your attention

Paul HaenerInternational Office for Water

p.haener@oieau.fr

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Main structure of the codes

Unique non-hydrological identifier are provided by the following format (see CIS Guidance doc. No. 9)

MS#1#2…#22 where

MS = a 2 character Member State identifier, in accordance with ISO 3166-1-Alpha-2 country codes, and

#1#2…#22 = an up to 22 character feature code that is unique within the Member State.

Entity types can be used to identify the types of features

Non-hydrological reference features should carry the code of the hydrological feature to which they are related as a foreign key

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Definition of terms

Reference features

are geographic features reported by Member States to WISE. They can be hydrological features or non hydrological features.

(a) hydrological reference features

are hydrological features used at European level in WISE as reference for thematic geographic data. Hydrological reference features carry a hydrological feature code (e.g. river basins, rivers, lakes)

(b) non-hydrological reference features

Non-hydrological reference features carry unique identifiers (e.g. water bodies, monitoring stations)

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Proposal for coding monitoring features (remind)

Network code– KSMON_AAABB

KS: code of the member state MON : identification of Monit Network AAA: Topic : HYD, MET, QLT, GWP, GWQ BB: indicial number

Station code– KSMOS_AAABBBBB

KS: code of the member state MOS : identification of Monit Network AA: Topic : MP (meteo/Prcipitation), SW (Surface water),

GW (Ground water) BBBB: indicial number

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General recommendations for coding

Code must be stable in time => avoid none useful significant elements inside the code

In relation with characters: Special advice given is that– Alphabetical characters should always be in upper

case, as systems will be case sensitive. – Special characters must be avoided, such as ‘$’, ‘!’,

‘&’, ‘ë’, ‘á’, etc. – Digits should be used where practical to help avoid

the above problems.

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Hydrological System and Sea region

Code Oceans

A North Eastern Atlantic Ocean

W North Western Atlantic Ocean

S South Atlantic Ocean

M Mediterranean Sea

N Arctic Ocean

I Indian Ocean

P Northern Pacific Ocean

B Southern Pacific Ocean

Hydrographical System

Sea Nr.

Sea Name

North Eastern Atlantic Ocean

1 Open Ocean

2 Norwegian Sea

4 Celtic Sea and Channels

5 North Sea

6 Baltic Sea

North Western Atlantic Ocean

1 Open Ocean

2 Caribbean Sea

Mediterranean Sea 2 Western Basin

4 Eastern Basin

5 Black Sea

Arctic Ocean 7 Barents Sea East

8 White Sea

9 Barents Sea West

Indian Ocean 1 Open Ocean

Code Endorheic System

C Caspian Sea

H Orumiyeh Lake

V Van Lake

Z Tuz Saltlake

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Elements of the hydrological code

Hydrological System and Sea region code

Island Code

Pfafstetter commencement code

River segments and elementary catchment Pfafstetter code

Entity type code

Lake identifier

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Elements of the hydrological code (2)

Island coding (proposal available – see Appendix 8)

Pfafstetter commencement code (available with CCM2: http://agrienv.jrc.it/activities/catchments/)

River segments and elementary catchment Pfafstetter code (available with CM2)

see presentation Alfred de Jager

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Elements of the hydrological code (3)

Entity types– An entity type can be used

to identify the type of a feature (see slide 6 – non-hydrological identifiers)

Lake identifier– Required for lakes that

are not coneccted to a river network

– Has to be managed within an international river basin on European or international level