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Hydrometeo data collected at stations along the Belgian coast and off-shore along the Flemish Banks.

• Partners: Vlaamse Hydrografie (MOW), Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
• Period: since September 2001
• Geographical coverage: Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone
• Taxonomic coverage: Abiotic data only
• Moratorium: Without valid credentials you are only allowed to view the "Tide TAW" parameter for the last 30 days, grouped by day/hour. Login or register to get full access.
• Data quality: Research-grade

How to interpret this dataset

Query options

• Parameters: List available parameters for Meetnet Vlaamse Banken (MVB).
• Timeframe: Starting and stopping date for the query.
• Stations: Name or code of sampling station or receiver code.
• Calculate: Calculation to perform given time grouping, one of ('avg', 'max', 'min', 'none').
• by: Time grouping for calculation, one of ('day','hour', '10min' ,'none').

Available columns

• Time: Time in UTC, beginning of sample timeperiod.
• Station: Name or code of sampling station or receiver code.
• Longitude: Center longitude in decimal degrees, WGS84.
• Latitude: Center latitude in decimal degrees, WGS84.
• Tide TAW: Waterlevel in m, level TAW ¹ measured in Ostend at the time

Click to see the columns available after log in

• 1% wave height
• 10 % wave height
• 10% highest waves
• Air pressure
• Air temperature
• Average current direction
• Average current velocity
• Average wave period
• Average wind direction
• Average wind speed (at sensor height)
• Average wind speed at 10 m
• Average Windspeed
• Ground temperature
• Height waves with period > 10 s
• High frequent wave direction
• Low frequent wave direction
• Max 1 sec gust of wind at 10 m
• Max 3 sec gust of wind (at sensor height).
• Max 3 sec wind speed at 10 m
• Max 3 sec Windgust
• Max. windspeed at 10m
• Precipitation
• Relative humidity
• Sea water temperature
• Significant wave height
• Significant wave height - bouys
• Solar radiation
• Wave height
• Wet bulb Temperature

Abstract

# Get the abstract and/or description from IMIS and print here
library(jsonlite)

dasid <- fromJSON("https://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=59&show=json")

abstract <- dasid[["datasetrec"]][["EngAbstract"]]
description <- dasid[["datasetrec"]][["EngDescr"]]

if (is.null(abstract) & is.null(description)){

} else if(is.null(abstract) & !is.null(description)){
  out <- description
} else if(!is.null(abstract) & is.null(description)){
  out <- abstract
} else if(!is.null(abstract) & !is.null(description)){
  out <- paste0(abstract, "</br>", description)
}

cat(out)

You can find more information at: https://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=59

How to cite these data

Please acknowledge as: This work makes use of the LifeWatch observation data and infrastructure (provided by MOW and VLIZ) funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.

These data are also available in the R language with the lwdataxplorer package.

¹ TAW (from Dutch: Tweede Algemeene Waterpassing) is a term used only in Belgium; it is a horizontal water level reference level. Source: proz.com

lifewatch/lwdataexplorer documentation built on Aug. 24, 2024, 12:35 a.m.