Low Impact Land Claim - Industrial |
Areas which have been claimed for agriculture, industry and ports & harbour development.
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SEPA Tide Gauge Network |
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Tide Gauge Network, provide a long time series of sea level data.
SEPA provides the locations of its tidel gaugue network.
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Annual Mean Surface Temperature (°C) - Climatology of the North-West European Continental Shelf for 1971–2000 |
This layer presents a 30-year (1971-2000) temperature climatology for surface regions of the NW European shelf seas, with a resolution of 1/6 longitude by 1/10 latitude. The data have been extracted from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) data centre and supplemented by additional records from the World Ocean Data Centre (WODC). From the original data, which are irregularly distributed in space and time, the mean monthly temperature and salinity are calculated, as well as the climatic mean annual cycle. The climatology presented here is an improvement upon all existing climatologies presented in the literature for the NW European shelf; covering a wider area on a finer scale and including the surface and near-bed distribution of both temperature and salinity. Comparison of our data with existing climatologies shows good agreement, with differences occurring where our climatology is an improvement. This climatology, which will prove to be valuable to many users in the marine community will be regularly updated and made available to all users via the ICES data centre.
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Annual Mean Near-bed Temperature (°C) - Climatology of the North-West European Continental Shelf for 1971–2000 |
This layer presents a 30-year (1971-2000) temperature climatology for near-bed regions of the NW European shelf seas, with a resolution of 1/6 longitude by 1/10 latitude. The data have been extracted from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) data centre and supplemented by additional records from the World Ocean Data Centre (WODC). From the original data, which are irregularly distributed in space and time, the mean monthly temperature and salinity are calculated, as well as the climatic mean annual cycle. The climatology presented here is an improvement upon all existing climatologies presented in the literature for the NW European shelf; covering a wider area on a finer scale and including the surface and near-bed distribution of both temperature and salinity. Comparison of our data with existing climatologies shows good agreement, with differences occurring where our climatology is an improvement. This climatology, which will prove to be valuable to many users in the marine community will be regularly updated and made available to all users via the ICES data centre.
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Annual Mean Surface Salinity (‰) - Climatology of the North-West European Continental Shelf for 1971–2000 |
This layer presents a 30-year (1971-2000) salinity climatology for surface regions of the NW European shelf seas, with a resolution of 1/6 longitude by 1/10 latitude. The data have been extracted from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) data centre and supplemented by additional records from the World Ocean Data Centre (WODC). From the original data, which are irregularly distributed in space and time, the mean monthly temperature and salinity are calculated, as well as the climatic mean annual cycle. The climatology presented here is an improvement upon all existing climatologies presented in the literature for the NW European shelf; covering a wider area on a finer scale and including the surface and near-bed distribution of both temperature and salinity. Comparison of our data with existing climatologies shows good agreement, with differences occurring where our climatology is an improvement. This climatology, which will prove to be valuable to many users in the marine community will be regularly updated and made available to all users via the ICES data centre.
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Annual Mean Near-bed Salinity (‰) - Climatology of the North-West European Continental Shelf for 1971–2000 |
This layer presents a 30-year (1971-2000) salinity climatology for near-bed regions of the NW European shelf seas, with a resolution of 1/6 longitude by 1/10 latitude. The data have been extracted from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) data centre and supplemented by additional records from the World Ocean Data Centre (WODC). From the original data, which are irregularly distributed in space and time, the mean monthly temperature and salinity are calculated, as well as the climatic mean annual cycle. The climatology presented here is an improvement upon all existing climatologies presented in the literature for the NW European shelf; covering a wider area on a finer scale and including the surface and near-bed distribution of both temperature and salinity. Comparison of our data with existing climatologies shows good agreement, with differences occurring where our climatology is an improvement. This climatology, which will prove to be valuable to many users in the marine community will be regularly updated and made available to all users via the ICES data centre.
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Dredge Spoil Disposal Sites - Closed and Disused |
This layer shows the locations of dredge spoil disposal sites that are designated as disused (not used for at least 5 years) or closed (not used for at least 10 years or specifically closed). The locations are indicated by points (beyond 1:2,000,000) and polygons (below 1:2,000,000). The spoil is usually as a result of navigational dredging (deepening of navigation channels) on the approaches to ports and harbours.
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Location and type of waste water treatment plants (2010) |
Waste water treatment is designed to process waste water whilst protecting the environment and maintaining public health. Outfalls to the marine environment fall into three categories:
- outfalls from waste water treatment (WWT) plants which process waste water from the mains sewerage system (this layer);
- industrial sites which take waste from manufacturing plants (see separate layer - Industrial (SPRI) marine discharges); and
- some private domestic sources (not on NMPi).
These categories of outfall also discharge to the riverine freshwater environment which eventually reach the sea.
This dataset was produced by SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency).
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Location and type of waste water treatment plants (2012) |
Waste water treatment is designed to process waste water whilst protecting the environment and maintaining public health. Outfalls to the marine environment fall into three categories:
- outfalls from waste water treatment (WWT) plants which process waste water from the mains sewerage system (this layer);
- industrial sites which take waste from manufacturing plants (see separate layer - Industrial (SPRI) marine discharges); and
- some private domestic sources (not on NMPi).
These categories of outfall also discharge to the riverine freshwater environment which eventually reach the sea.
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Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) - Industrial marine discharges (2013) |
The Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) is a database of annual mass releases of specified pollutants to air, water and land from SEPA regulated industrial sites. It also provides information about off-site transfers of waste from these sites. The SPRI will provide emission values and waste transfers when they are over the reporting thresholds and indicate if a site releases a pollutant below the threshold. From 2007, SPRI data has been used to fulfill the reporting requirements of the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR).
This data has been filtered by SEPA to include only discharges to marine environment.
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