Description: This dataset comprises data from the GEMStat database that are available under an open data license (CC BY 4.0 or equivalent). It is made available on the Zenodo repository. GEMStat provides access to freshwater quality data. The data are voluntarily provided by countries and organizations worldwide within the framework of the GEMS/Water Programme of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The dataset includes more than 20 Million measurement from over 13,000 stations and covering more than 600 different parameters and spans the time period from 1906 to 2023. This represents over 70% of all GEMStat data, further data is only available under more restricted data licenses. GEMStat is operated by the GEMS/Water programme of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and hosted at the International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC) and the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG). The data in GEMStat is provided by National Hydrological Services of UN member states.
Global identifier:
Uuid(
fb38ac32-1459-48d9-8390-f8dd2e43e0cc,
)
Types:
Origins:
/Bund/BfG/Geoportal
/Land/GDI-DE
/Bund/GDI-DE
/Bund/GovData
Tags:
Lagerstätte
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Süßwasser
?
Open Data
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Daten
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Wasserqualität
?
UNEP
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Datenbank
?
Hydrologie
?
Wasserressourcen
?
GEMS/Water
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GEMStat
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Global
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Bounding boxes:
-180° .. 180° x -90° .. 90°
License: cc-by/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Organisations
Issued: 2024-08-12
Modified: 2025-10-28
Update frequency: irregular
Time ranges:
1906-09-10 - 2023-08-02
2024-08-12 - 2024-10-08
Alternatives
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Title: UNEP GEMS/Water Global Freshwater Quality Archive (geodatenkatalog)
Origin:
/Bund/GDI-DE
http://gdk.gdi-de.org/gdi-de/srv/ger/catalog.search#/metadata/fb38ac32-1459-48d9-8390-f8dd2e43e0cc
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Title: UNEP GEMS/Water Global Freshwater Quality Archive (govdata)
Origin:
/Bund/GovData
https://www.govdata.de/web/guest/suchen/-/details/gems-water-open-global-water-quality-dataset
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Language: Deutsch
Title: UNEP GEMS/Water Global Freshwater Quality Archive
Description: This dataset comprises data from the GEMStat database that are available under an open data license (CC BY 4.0 or equivalent). It is made available on the Zenodo repository. GEMStat provides access to freshwater quality data. The data are voluntarily provided by countries and organizations worldwide within the framework of the GEMS/Water Programme of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The dataset includes more than 20 Million measurement from over 13,000 stations and covering more than 600 different parameters and spans the time period from 1906 to 2023. This represents over 70% of all GEMStat data, further data is only available under more restricted data licenses. GEMStat is operated by the GEMS/Water programme of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and hosted at the International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC) and the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG). The data in GEMStat is provided by National Hydrological Services of UN member states.
https://www.govdata.de/web/guest/suchen/-/details/gems-water-open-global-water-quality-dataset
Resources
Status
Quality score
- Overall: 0.58
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Findability: 0.76
- Title: 0.80
- Description: 0.49
- Identifier: true
- Keywords: 0.75
- Spatial: BoundingBox (0.50)
- Temporal: true
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Accessibility: 0.67
- Landing page: Specific (1.00)
- Direct access: false
- Publicly accessible: true
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Interoperability: 0.25
- Open file format: false
- Media type: false
- Machine-readable metadata: true
- Machine-readable data: false
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Reusability: 0.67
- License: ClearlySpecifiedAndFree (1.00)
- Contact info: false
- Publisher info: true
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