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1st Mediterranean Water Forum

Water institutional framework of Mediterranean countries





Union for the Mediterranean - Water sector website
Mediterranean Water Information Mechanism
Water Information System for Europe
Med Joint Process: Water quality monitoring working group meeting, Madrid, 10th November 2010
14th EMWIS Steering Committee meeting, 3rd december 2010 in Firenze (IT)
27 May 2010 - For'UM - Marseille


EMWIS Flash N°96, January 2012EMWIS Book (From Marseille 1996 to Florence 2010)EMWIS Newsletter, December 2010 EMWIS Newsletter, April 2010





Towards a National Water Information System in Morocco, 25/11/2010Towards a National Water Information System in Turkey, Dec'2010Towards a National Water Information System in Syria, 20/12/2010


Towards a National Water Information System in Jordan, 20/10/2010 Towards a National Water Information System in Egypt, 27/10/2010Towards a National Water Information System in Palestine, 23/11/2010</description><dc:description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6" target="_new" title="WWF6, Marseille March 2012"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 60px; height: 106px; margin: 0px;" src="/images/logo-Forum6_04_91462967ef.jpg" alt="" width="60" height="106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h1 style="text-align: -webkit-center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/med" target="_new"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;1st Mediterranean Water Forum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#13;
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&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ufm-water.net" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Union for the Mediterranean - Water&lt;strong&gt; sector website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="/medwip"&gt;Mediterranean Water Information Mechanism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://water.europa.eu/"&gt;Water Information System for Europe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2 style="font-size: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="/topics/watmon/meeting2010/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Med Joint Process: Water quality monitoring working group meeting, Madrid, 10th November 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2 style="font-size: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/SC/SC14"&gt;14th EMWIS Steering Committee meeting, 3rd december 2010 in Firenze (IT)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2 style="font-size: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ufm-water.net/meetings/for-um"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;27 May 2010 - For'UM - Marseille&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ff;"&gt;&lt;a href="/thematicdirs/eflash/flash96" target="_new"&gt;EMWIS Flash N&amp;deg;96, January 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;a href="/thematicdirs/books/emwis-book_1996-2010_en-fr.pdf"&gt;EMWIS Book (From Marseille 1996 to Florence 2010)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/thematicdirs/newsletter/emwis-newsletter7_en.pdf"&gt;EMWIS Newsletter, December 2010&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/thematicdirs/newsletter/newsletter2010.pdf"&gt;EMWIS Newsletter, April 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/MA2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Morocco, 25/11/2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/TR2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Turkey, Dec'2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/SR2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Syria, 20/12/2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/towards-national-water-information-system-jordan"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Jordan, 20/10/2010&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/EG2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Egypt, 27/10/2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/PS2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Palestine, 23/11/2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="/images/Illustration_semide-h12W16.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description><dc:identifier>http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279</dc:identifier><dc:date>2012-02-04T12:31:30Z</dc:date><dc:publisher>EMWIS Technical Unit</dc:publisher><dc:creator></dc:creator><dc:subject>Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector</dc:subject><dc:subject>International portal</dc:subject><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:source>EMWIS Technical Unit</dc:source><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li resource="http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/url635601"/><rdf:li resource="http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/url747815"/><rdf:li resource="http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/url475207"/><rdf:li resource="http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/url843657"/><rdf:li resource="http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/gisanalytical-tools"/><rdf:li resource="http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/grads-grid-analysis-and-display-system"/><rdf:li resource="http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/wms-software-watershed-modeling-system"/><rdf:li resource="http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/inspire-infrastructure-spatial-information-europe"/></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/url635601"><link>http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/url635601</link><title>GIS data sets on basins, regions, countries</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Remote sensing and GIS data from many countries in the world and&#13;
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  href="http://www.iwmidsp.org"&gt;http://www.iwmidsp.org&lt;/a&gt;. This data set&#13;
  includes for example digital elevation models, rainfall, etc. Such data will&#13;
  facilitate the analysis of basin situations. Contact: Prasad Thenkabail,&#13;
  IWMI, &lt;a href="mailto:thenkabail@cgiar.org"&gt;thenkabail@cgiar.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/tutorial/avtutor.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Arcview 3.1 Tutorial (HTML)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from U.S. National Weather Service&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/" target="_blank"&gt;GEO Data Portal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - access to UNEP's online database of over 450 different parameters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.knmi.nl/samenw/cost719/" target="_blank"&gt;EU COST 719 Official Web Page - The Use of GIS in Climatology and Meteorology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Links to several workshops with online presentations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.gis.ucar.edu/05workshop/agenda.html" target="_blank"&gt;GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts Workshop &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Abstracts and Presentations (PDF) from NCAR Workshop held in Boulder, Colorado July 6-8, 2005&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/" target="_blank"&gt;Online AWIPS Map Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; A listing of over 20 datasets and links for the US and North America from the U.S. National Weather Service &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/gis_tutorials.htm" target="_blank"&gt;USGS GIS Tutorials&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Tutorials from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) on Arcview, ArcviewIMS, ARC/INFO, GRASS, and IDRISI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/wxproject/papers/list.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Papers and Presentations (PDFs) from the GIS Weather Project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.gisarena.com/gisarena/links.html" target="_blank"&gt;Useful GIS and Remote Sensing Links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from Taylor &amp;amp; Francis GIS publishers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/download.html" target="_blank"&gt;Free ArcExplorer Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Free shapefile viewer from ESRI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/about/arcexplorer-web.html" target="_blank"&gt;ArcExplorer Web&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Make an online map from ESRI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://earth.google.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Google Earth Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Free Viewer and Search software of sateillite imagery, maps, and other geographic information for the world&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://earthbrowser.com/" target="_blank"&gt;EarthBrowser Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 3D model of the earth with weather and geological information. Free Demo version available but full version must be purchased. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#13;
</description><dc:title>GIS/Analytical Tools</dc:title><dc:identifier>http://www.emwis.net/topics/fol573816/fol098279/gisanalytical-tools</dc:identifier><dc:date>2009-03-17T00:00:00Z</dc:date><dc:description>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #284d15"&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/tutorial/avtutor.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Arcview 3.1 Tutorial (HTML)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from U.S. National Weather Service&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/" target="_blank"&gt;GEO Data Portal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - access to UNEP's online database of over 450 different parameters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.knmi.nl/samenw/cost719/" target="_blank"&gt;EU COST 719 Official Web Page - The Use of GIS in Climatology and Meteorology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Links to several workshops with online presentations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.gis.ucar.edu/05workshop/agenda.html" target="_blank"&gt;GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts Workshop &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Abstracts and Presentations (PDF) from NCAR Workshop held in Boulder, Colorado July 6-8, 2005&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/" target="_blank"&gt;Online AWIPS Map Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; A listing of over 20 datasets and links for the US and North America from the U.S. National Weather Service &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/gis_tutorials.htm" target="_blank"&gt;USGS GIS Tutorials&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Tutorials from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) on Arcview, ArcviewIMS, ARC/INFO, GRASS, and IDRISI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/wxproject/papers/list.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Papers and Presentations (PDFs) from the GIS Weather Project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.gisarena.com/gisarena/links.html" target="_blank"&gt;Useful GIS and Remote Sensing Links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from Taylor &amp;amp; Francis GIS publishers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
 &#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/download.html" target="_blank"&gt;Free ArcExplorer Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Free shapefile viewer from ESRI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/about/arcexplorer-web.html" target="_blank"&gt;ArcExplorer Web&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Make an online map from ESRI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://earth.google.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Google Earth Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Free Viewer and Search software of sateillite imagery, maps, and other geographic information for the world&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://earthbrowser.com/" target="_blank"&gt;EarthBrowser Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 3D model of the earth with weather and geological information. Free Demo version available but full version must be purchased. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#13;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS Home Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Free Analytical Software from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Maryland, USA&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/downloads.html" target="_blank"&gt;Download GrADS Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/tutorial.html" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS Tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from COLA&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.wamis.org/tools/info/GradsProjects.zip" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS Projects (ZIP)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from WMO Training Seminar on IT&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/users.html" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS User Guide (HTML)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/aboutstationdata.html" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS Station Data (HTML)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Information on the structure, creation, and use of station data in GrADS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#13;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS Home Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Free Analytical Software from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Maryland, USA&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/downloads.html" target="_blank"&gt;Download GrADS Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/tutorial.html" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS Tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from COLA&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://www.wamis.org/tools/info/GradsProjects.zip" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS Projects (ZIP)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from WMO Training Seminar on IT&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/users.html" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS User Guide (HTML)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color: #284d15" href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/aboutstationdata.html" target="_blank"&gt;GrADS Station Data (HTML)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Information on the structure, creation, and use of station data in GrADS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#13;
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