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Productive surface waters (Chl-a) - satellite based [Draft]

Springtime Chl-a concentration is here used as a proxy for productive surface waters. In the Baltic Sea Impact Index (BSII), areas with high springtime phytoplankton production will be given higher importance, as they are considered important areas for the Baltic Sea food web. In the current map, mean of springtime maximum weekly values (weeks 12-22, years 2003-2011) Chl-a concentration of the surface waters has been used, derived from satellite data (MERIS). Years 2003-2011 have been used, as there is no MERIS data available for years 2012-2016. The data for eastern Baltic Sea is provided by the Finnish Environment Institute (~300m resolution). Outside this high resolution data, MERIS-data downloaded from JRC-database has been used (~4 km resolution, to calculate average of maximum monthly values for April or May for 2003-2011). Both datasets were converted to 1 km x 1 km grid cells.

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Original title Productive surface waters (Chl-a)
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Topic category
  • biological_characteristics
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Resource language English
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Owner HELCOM
Provider HELCOM
Data portal helcom
Presentation form Map (map represented in raster or vector form)
Spatial representation Raster (grid)
Coordinate reference system epsg:3035 - ETRS89 / LAEA Europe
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    Temporal extent 2022-11-01
    2025-10-31
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    Validation level Official data
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    Additional info - MSP - Environment

    Species, habitats, ecosystems, pressures

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    MSFD Classes Ecosystems, including food webs - Biological characteristics
    MSFD Descriptors/Criteria
    • D4 Food webs/D1 Biodiversity - ecosystems
    • D5 Eutrophication
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        Physics, biochemistry, EOV, ECV

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