Chlorophyll-a 2018
Short description
This core indicator evaluates the average chlorophyll-a concentration in surface water (0 – 10 m) during summer (June – September) during the assessment period 2011-2016. The measured average chlorophyll-a is a combined estimate of two types of data: 1) in-situ measurements from oceanographic monitoring data (surface water 0-10 m) and 2) earth observation data. More detailed description on methodology can be found at HELCOM Core indicator report and http://www.helcom.fi/Documents/Eutrophication%20assessment%20manual.pdf This dataset displays the result of the indicator in HELCOM Assessment Scale 4 (Division of the Baltic Sea into 17 open sea sub-basins and division of coastal areas to WFD water types or water bodies). The open sea areas have been assessed based on HELCOM Monitoring data and earth observation data for year 2011 (ENVISAT/MERIS instrument observations with FUB bio-optical model). Results for coastal areas are based on national WFD results. Attribute information: "HELCOM_ID" = Code of the HELCOM scale 4 assessment unit "Country" = Country/ Opensea "level_2" = name of the subbasin "level_4" = Name of the HELCOM scale 4 assessment unit "Area (km2)" = Area of the HELCOM scale 4 assessment unit "Indicator" = Name of indicator “Season” = Season of the indicator (Summer = June-September) “Period” = Assessment period (20112016 = 2011 – 2016) Indicator value (ES) = Indicator value calculated for the assessment unit "Standard deviation (STD)" = Standard deviation of data used for calculating ES "Number of samples " = Number of samples by assessment unit "Theshold value (ET)" = Commonly agreed thershold value "Ratio between ES and ET (ER)" = Eutrophication ratio: Ratio between ES and ET (in case of indicator with positive response to eutrophication) "ES_SCORE” = Confidence based on the data used for calculating ES "ET_SCORE” = Confidence of target-setting procedure "I_SCORE” = Confidence (%) = average of ES-Score and ET-Score "Indicator Weight" = Indicator Weight in integrated eutrophication assessment “Status” = Status of the indicator (“Good”, “Not good”, “Not assessed” or "Not applicable") “Confidence” = Confidence of result based on I-SCORE (“High”, “Moderate” or “Low”) "AULEVEL" = Assessment unit level used for the indicator
Point of contact
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi
Spatial extent
['8.186121', '30.251959', '53.605476', '65.908764']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Identifier
Keywords
Oceanographic geographical features ; GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ;



MADS ; HOLAS2 2018 Core indicator ; Core indicator ;

Resource provider(s)
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi

Lineage
The dataset was created in June 2018 Data source: The average chlorophyll-a was combined estimate of two types of data: 1) In-situ monitoring data provided by the HELCOM Contracting Parties, and kept in the HELCOM COMBINE database, hosted by ICES (www.ices.dk), added with data from the Gulf of Finland year database, hosted by the Finnish Environment Institute. 2) The original source of the satellite-based EO-chl-a dataset is calculated at SYKE using ENVISAT/MERIS instrument data (2011). It has been validated by SYKE, and kept at the eutrophication assessment database hosted by ICES. For the assessment period 2011-2016, data was available only during 2011. 3) FerryBox flow-through data is reported to ICES by Contracting Parties, to be included into the eutrophication assessment database. It is reported according to the QA/QC guidance for FerryBox Flowthrough information, providing adequate metadata and quality information, including the following: • (arithmetic and) geometric mean • mode (most frequently occurring value in dataset) • standard deviation • percentiles (5,25, 50, 75, 95) • N of observations that were used to derive statistics Additional information: http://www.helcom.fi/baltic-sea-trends/indicators/chlorophyll-a