Links

EUROPE – LINKS WITH CLRTAP (CONVENTION ON LONG-RANGE TRANSBOUNDARY AIR POLLUTION):

• UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution 
• Working Group on Effects

International Co-operative Programmes:

• Forests 
• Integrated Monitoring 
• Materials 
• Modelling & Mapping

• The Mapping Manual - 2004 version

• Vegetation
• Waters
• Task Force on Health
• Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling
• Coordination Centre for Effects (CCE)
• The EMEP Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling at IIASA
• EMEP Meteorological Synthesizing Centre West (MSC-W): modelling acidifying air pollutants and photochemical oxidants across Europe
• EMEP Meteorological Synthesizing Centre East (MSC-E): modelling POPs and heavy metals across Europe
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• GAINS/RAINS-Europe: includes on-line European scale model 
• European Centre for Environment and Health of the World Health Organisation 

• UK Research on the Eutrophication and Acidification of Terrestrial Ecosystems (UKREATE)
• Forest Research - Level II sites
• Freshwater Umbrella
• Acid Waters Monitoring Network (AWMN) 
• National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution (NEGTAP) 
• Developing effects-based critical loads methodologies for heavy metals
• UK Air Pollution Information System (APIS)

CONCENTRATIONS AND DEPOSITIONS OF ACIDIFYING AND EUTROPHYING POLLUTANTS:

• NETCEN: AEA Technology - National Environmental Technology Centre
• CEH Atmospheric Sciences: Mapping and Modelling Deposition
• UK Pollutant Deposition - includes maps and data for acid deposition
• FRAME - the Fine Resolution Atmospheric Multi-pollutant Exchange model, used to assess the mean deposition of reduced and oxidised nitrogen and sulphur over the UK.

LAND COVER, LAND USE & SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS:

• CEH Land Cover Map 
• Countryside Survey 2000  
• EUNIS Habitat Classification 
• Biological Records Centre
• National Biodiversity Network (NBN)
• UK Biodiversity: UK Biodiversity Action Plans and habitats

UK POLICY:

• Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
• Environment Agency

CONSERVATION AGENCIES:

• English Nature
• Countryside Council for Wales
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland

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