geo.be Metadata Catalog
geo.be Metadata Catalog (National Geographic Institute)
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
UV Index derived from spectral measurements with a Brewer UV spectrophotometer. This product is not publically available yet.
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Every two year the spectrophotometers are calibrated by an external company. A 1000W NIST-traceable reference lamp is used to make an absolute calibration. For the absolute UV calibration small 50W lamps are used once a month to verify the calibration level.
Annual, summer and winter mean potential evapotranspiration given in respectively mm/year and mm/3 months and based on the Penman-Monteith definition. The potential evapotranspiration fields are available for the future target year 2085, which corresponds to the middle of the 30-year period 2071-2100, and for mean and high impact scenarios corresponding respectively to the 50th and 95th percentiles of the change factors.
climate projections,Belgium,Representative Concentration Pathway,high resolution
Meteorology, weather and radiation conditions
•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files •The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use. •Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden •Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.
In the follow-up Belspo funded 'CICADA' project (2019-2021, https://www.belspo.be/belspo/brain-be/projects/FinalReports/CICADAbe_FinRep.pdf), these Belgian climate model projections were used to adjust the spread of climate change signals based on the larger model ensemble of all available CMIP5 Global Climate Model runs (https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/) and EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Model runs (https://euro-cordex.net/060378/index.php.en). This multi-model ensemble of climate change signals or factors were used to apply a statistical downscaling or more specifically a quantile perturbation method on the observational climate grid from the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. From those ensembles, 5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles of changes, corresponding to a mean (50th percentiles) and high (5th or 95th percentiles) impact scenario, were obtained for the variables: precipitation, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, global solar radiation and potential evapotranspiration.
Weather model INCA. Available parameters : 2m Temperature, 2m Dewpoint, 2m Relative Humidity, Snowfall level, Freezing level, 3D Temperature, 3D Humidity, 3D Wind, 10m Wind, 10m Gusts, Ground temperature, Wind chill, Precipitation, Precipitation type, Lightning, Collection of convective analysis fields:CAPE, CIN, LCL, Level of free convection,Lifted Index, Showalter Index, Deep ConvectionIndex, Trigger temperature, Trigger temperaturedeficit, Equivalent Pot. temperature, Moistureconvergence, Flow divergence, Precipitable water, Cloudiness, Visibility. This product is not publicly available yet
INCA (Integrated Nowcasting through Comprehensive Analysis) is a nowcasting system for the analysis and nowcasts of several meteorological fields, like temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation and cloudiness, and some derived fields like precipitation type, wind chill, height of the freezing level and visibility. For the calculation of these fields, INCA ingests a wide range of observational and model data: radar composites, data from automatic weather stations, satellite data and NWP output. The nowcasts of the fields gradually converge towards the NWP forecast for longer lead times. INCA has been developed at the national meteorological service of Austria (ZAMG); INCA-BE is the implementation of this system for Belgium. Since the start of its implementation in 2010, the system has been heavily modified and improved, including: a nowcast of the lightning activity based on the BELLS network, the addition of an uncertainty plume to the precipitation forecast, and the addition of hail as a supplementary precipitation type in the precipitation type forecast. Apart from these system extensions, a complete new module was added to the system as well: the nowcast of 10m wind gusts.
Points Of Interest - Elements of general interest contains point elements that are classified as being of general interest, namely embassies, (federal, regional, provincial, municipality) buildings, Govroam, court houses, prisons, police stations, post offices, education, sports buildings and infrastructure, cultural places and centres, libraries and archives, attraction-, recreation-, water- and wildlife parks, camp sites, museum, provincial domains, observatory, observation points, swimming pools, chemist's, crematorium, fire station, civil defence and healthcare in Belgium.
Occupation and planning of sea and land areas
The POI dataset of the NGI was originally constructed as an auxiliary database for assigning appropriate attributes to NGI’s topographic reference data. Various sources were consulted. After checking and correcting the source data, additional POIs were added via aerial photographs or terrain observations.
INSPIRE download service for the Marine Strategic Framework Directive-WFS
INSPIRE compliant download service (WFS) for geographic information of the datasets of the Marine Strategic Framework Directive made available by the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS).
INSPIRE download service for general marine datasets-WFS
INSPIRE compliant download service for geographic information of general marine datasets made available by the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS). More specific products such as the Marine Spatial Plan and the MSFD data are provided by other WMS services.
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
This AtomFeed download service provides access to federal datasets that are not reported under the INSPIRE Directive. The datasets can be accessible for free or under conditions.
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Download service of air quality data from Belgium - WFS
INSPIRE compliant download service for geographic information made available by the Belgian Interregional Environment Agency (IRCEL - CELINE).
INSPIRE download service for the core sample collection dataset-WFS
INSPIRE compliant download service (WFS) for geographic information of the core sample collection made available by the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS).
The zones are used as reporting units of the air quality in Belgium. These zones are defined based on Article 3 of the 2004/107/EC Directive and Article 4 of the 2008/50/EC Directive. A zones shall mean a part of the territory of a Member State, as delimited by that Member State for the purposes of air quality assessment and management (source: 2008/50/EC).2008/50/EC Article 4: Establishment of zones and agglomerations: Member States shall establish zones and agglomerations throughout their territory. Air quality assessment and air quality management shall be carried out in all zones and agglomerations.
The dataset is created in the context of the 2008/50/EC Framework Directive. The Belgian territory is devided into zones according to the instructions listed in the 2008/50/EC Directive. Air Quality Assessment Zones are pollutant specific and only applicable for a given year. The data service supports Common Query Language (CQL).
Management zones and agglomerations (Air Quality Directive)
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Directorate Natural Environment, GeoCell
Belgian Interregional Environment Agency (IRCEL - CELINE)