Probability of whales occurrence in Europe Seas, Jun. 2020

This raster dataset represents the probability of occurrence of whales in the Europe Seas, where the species included are: Blue whale, Sei whale, Humpback whale, Sperm whale, Fin whale and Northern right whale.

The northern right whale model only describes the range of the western population of this species, since the eastern population is probably almost extinct. Thus, the northern right whale model only partly overlaps with the EEA area on interest.

This dataset is based on AquaMaps distribution maps (version 10/2019). The dataset has been prepared in the context of the development of the first European Maritime Transport Environmental Report (to be published as an EMSA-EEA report in 2021).

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Date ( Creation )
2019-11-01
Date ( Publication )
2020-06-16
Edition
01.00
Identifier
eea_r_3035_10_km_whales-occurrence_p_2019_v01_r00
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu
Processor
  European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC-ICM) -
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
Custodian
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , 1050 , Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
EEA keyword list
  • marine
  • marine water
  • oceans
  • environment
  • occurrence
  • whales occurrence
EEA categories ( Theme )
  • geospatial data
GEMET ( Theme )
  • marine environment
  • ocean
  • aquatic environment
  • marine biology
  • marine ecosystem
  • environmental quality
  • sea
  • whale
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • North Sea
  • Norwegian Sea
  • English Channel
  • Bay of Biscay
  • Kattegat
  • Celtic Sea
  • Iceland Sea
  • Black Sea
  • Baltic Sea
  • Ionian Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Barents Sea
  • Adriatic Sea
  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
0.5  degrees
Distance
10  km
Metadata language
en
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2019-10-01
End date
2019-10-31
CRS identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • GTiff ( )

OnLine resource
Direct download (Eionet authentication) ( WWW:URL )
OnLine resource
https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/continental/europe/water/marine/assessments/eea_r_3035_10_km_whales-occurrence_p_2019_v01_r00/Whale_occurrence.tif ( EEA:FILEPATH )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement
The dataset has been created based on computer generated distribution maps from https://www.aquamaps.org/, version 10/2019. The values of the distribution models for the whale species were summed to 0.5-degree c-squares.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
5b83a3ca-2545-4b9e-a294-e709be063059 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2020-07-10T17:26:53
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
 
 

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Keywords

EEA categories
geospatial data
GEMET
aquatic environment environmental quality marine biology marine ecosystem marine environment ocean sea whale
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Species distribution
Spatial scope
European

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