Status Report September 2006

The following foreign monitoring datasets were processed and quality-controlled:

• Sweden (SMHI, 1979 - 1998)
• Danmark (NERI, 1950 - 2002)
• Poland (IMGW, 1979 - 2003)
• ICES (1891 - 2003)

State of data holdings in the IOW data base as by September 2006:

• Monitoring (BMP) data from 1951 - 2006 (CTD, hydrochemical bottle data)
• various (Baltic Sea) from 1891 - 2006

     >> about 18 million measured samples, 13 million from IOW

     >> Number of samples 1891-2005:

Temperature:	3 967 303
Salinity:	3 881 587
Oxygen:	2 135 617

• data from 447projects in the Baltic Sea

     >> about 202 000 hydrographic stations (CTD profiles, hydrochemical bottle data)

• current meter data Darss Sill (Baltic Sea) 1973 – 1992
• various (Atlantic) 1976 - 1992