KOSOVO 3rd meeting of the water monitoring working group Paul Haener International Office for Water

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 2 Table of content Remind of previous actions Progress on hydrological database / link with wiski application (HMIK) Database structure proposal for water quality data Proposal for hydrological codification Next steps

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 3 Remind of previous actions

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 4 Previous actions Validating codification rules – Monitoring network – Monitoring station – Parameters Completing datasets monitoring station Importing hydrological data necessary for Wiski tests

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 5 Expected steps after last meeting Contacts to get to an inter-institutional agreement on codification principles of network, stations, parameters (Fidaim) Complete XY for manual precipitation stations (Elfete) Validation of monitoring, stations and parameter characteristics – XLS files to be commented and returned to Agron (all) – Actualisation of data (Agron) Hydro data – Link with Wiski Quality data – XY Health Institute stations (Agron) – Data structuring (PH/Agron)

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 6 Progress on hydrological database / link with wiski application (HMIK)

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 7 RBD Sub-unit Water segments Water bodies Parameter Stations Monitoring network Kosovo QTT monitoring data structure QTT data Typology Institution

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 8 First draft of a Kosovo monitoring database

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 9 Liink with Wiski training

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 10 Database structure proposal for water quality data

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 11 Quality data

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 12 Demo on a access data base Demo Next steps

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 13 Proposal for hydrological codification

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 14 Management of codes MS will be responsible to – Manage their hydrological codes and non hydrological identifiers – To keep them consistent and unique

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 15 Unique European codes Following the last CIS recommendations: „Unique European codes will be applied to Non-hydrological reference features – River basin districts, Sub-units, Water bodies, monitoring stations, discharge points, point sources, … Hydrological reference features – River(sub)basins – (Main)Rivers – River Segments (reaching from confluence to confluence) – Lakes“

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 16 Elements of the hydrological code (4) AbbreviationLogical Element Relation toData typeMin., Max. Lenght H or HDM_IDCoastline, Hydrological system String1 S or SEA_IDCoastline, SeaHydrological systemNumber 1- 9, 1 II or Island sortLandmass, Island sort Sea and Hydrological system Hexadecim al number 2 CCCCC or Commencement Sea outlet commencement code Sea and Hydrological system and Island Number – 99999, 5 P or PfafstetterRiver-reaches Pfafstetter SeaoutletNumber1-12 E or Entity typeEntity type codeCharacter2 L or Lake identifierLake identifierCharacter0,2 Can be stored in seperate files in the database – elements can be used flexible Data exchange – elements can be concatenated The format of the code will be as follows: HSIICCCCCPPPPPPPPPPPPEELL

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 17 Thank you for your attention Paul Haener International Office for Water

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 18 Main structure of the codes Unique non-hydrological identifier are provided by the following format (see CIS Guidance doc. No. 9) MS#1#2…#22 where MS = a 2 character Member State identifier, in accordance with ISO Alpha-2 country codes, and #1#2…#22 = an up to 22 character feature code that is unique within the Member State. Entity types can be used to identify the types of features Non-hydrological reference features should carry the code of the hydrological feature to which they are related as a foreign key

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 19 Definition of terms Reference features are geographic features reported by Member States to WISE. They can be hydrological features or non hydrological features. (a) hydrological reference features are hydrological features used at European level in WISE as reference for thematic geographic data. Hydrological reference features carry a hydrological feature code (e.g. river basins, rivers, lakes) (b) non-hydrological reference features Non-hydrological reference features carry unique identifiers (e.g. water bodies, monitoring stations)

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 20 Proposal for coding monitoring features (remind) Network code – KSMON_AAABB KS: code of the member state MON : identification of Monit Network AAA: Topic : HYD, MET, QLT, GWP, GWQ BB: indicial number Station code – KSMOS_AAABBBBB KS: code of the member state MOS : identification of Monit Network AA: Topic : MP (meteo/Prcipitation), SW (Surface water), GW (Ground water) BBBB: indicial number

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 21 General recommendations for coding Code must be stable in time => avoid none useful significant elements inside the code In relation with characters: Special advice given is that – Alphabetical characters should always be in upper case, as systems will be case sensitive. – Special characters must be avoided, such as ‘$’, ‘!’, ‘&’, ‘ë’, ‘á’, etc. – Digits should be used where practical to help avoid the above problems.

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 22 Hydrological System and Sea region CodeOceans ANorth Eastern Atlantic Ocean WNorth Western Atlantic Ocean SSouth Atlantic Ocean MMediterranean Sea NArctic Ocean IIndian Ocean PNorthern Pacific Ocean BSouthern Pacific Ocean Hydrographical System Sea Nr. Sea Name North Eastern Atlantic Ocean 1Open Ocean 2Norwegian Sea 4Celtic Sea and Channels 5North Sea 6Baltic Sea North Western Atlantic Ocean 1Open Ocean 2Caribbean Sea Mediterranean Sea2Western Basin 4Eastern Basin 5Black Sea Arctic Ocean7Barents Sea East 8White Sea 9Barents Sea West Indian Ocean1Open Ocean CodeEndorheic System CCaspian Sea HOrumiyeh Lake VVan Lake ZTuz Saltlake

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 23 Elements of the hydrological code Hydrological System and Sea region code Island Code Pfafstetter commencement code River segments and elementary catchment Pfafstetter code Entity type code Lake identifier

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 24 Elements of the hydrological code (2) Island coding (proposal available – see Appendix 8) Pfafstetter commencement code (available with CCM2: River segments and elementary catchment Pfafstetter code (available with CM2)  see presentation Alfred de Jager

P.Haener- IOWater / Kosovo project 06KOS01/10 02/10/08 25 Elements of the hydrological code (3) Entity types – An entity type can be used to identify the type of a feature (see slide 6 – non- hydrological identifiers) Lake identifier – Required for lakes that are not coneccted to a river network – Has to be managed within an international river basin on European or international level