Station naming conventions
Station-naming.RmdGeneral conventions
The stations are named as best as possible through the convention
<river>_<location>_<bank>. The river name
uses the local spelling with the complete character set (ß etc.). This
enables easier wildcard searching, for example rhein* will
find all measurement stations on the Rhine river. The location can be
either a town, district, or river-km (must be with km
before, e.g., donau_km50, . is used for
decimals). Numbering of stations along a river is not accepted (either
by numbers or letters, e.g., not permitted: elbe_1,
lahn_a. If a code is used for the location,
e.g. jo for Jochenstein, then this code needs to be added
to the table below. It is preferred to use the full name of the town,
lowercase and local spelling. If the name contains a space, use a hyphen
(-) instead. The bank indicates on which bank the sample
was taken (left: l, right: r, m
for middle). Banks are always named in the direction of the flow, for
canals see Teil
II Binnenschiffahrtsverordnung. All text is lower-case without
spaces or punctuation characters (´, ",
,, etc.). Special characters such as ä, ß, etc. are allowed
and preferred.
Table of station codes
| Codierung Messstelle | Beschreibung |
|---|---|
| donau_jo_m | Donau, Stauhaltung Jochenstein, Donau km 2210, Flussmitte |
| breitengrad: 48.567305 | |
| laengengrad: 13.604114 | |
| donau_ul_m | Donau, oberhalb Illermündung Ulm, Donau km 2593, Flussmitte |
| breitengrad: 48.336936 | |
| laengengrad: 9.933709 | |
| elbe_ba_m | Elbe, Unterhalb Saalemündung (Barby), Elbe km 296, Flussmitte |
| breitengrad: 51.996668 | |
| laengengrad: 11.888593 | |
| elbe_bl_m | Elbe, Elbmündung in Deutsche Bucht (Blankenese), Elbe km 634, Flussmitte |
| breitengrad: 53.547521 | |
| laengengrad: 9.800194 | |
| elbe_cu_m | Elbe, Landschaftsschutzgebiet Elbe-Aland-Niederung (Cumlosen), Elbe km 470, Flussmitte |
| breitengrad: 53.040792 | |
| laengengrad: 11.636399 | |
| elbe_tan_l | Elbe, Tangermünde (WSA Magdeburg), Elbe km 389.0, linkes Ufer |
| breitengrad: 52.549876 | |
| laengengrad: 11.983321 | |
| elbe_pr_r | Elbe, Hafenbecken Prossen, Elbe km 13, rechtes Ufer |
| breitengrad: 50.927016 | |
| laengengrad: 14.116322 | |
| elbe_ze_l | Elbe, Landschaftsschutzgebiet Zehren, Elbe km 96, linkes Ufer |
| breitengrad: 51.264465 | |
| laengengrad: 13.402703 | |
| rhein_bi_l | Rhein, Messplattform der Internationalen Messstation Bimmen-Lobith, Rhein km 865, linkes Ufer |
| breitengrad: 51.859995 | |
| laengengrad: 6.066983 | |
| rhein_if_m | Rhein, Schleuse Iffezheim (WSA Freiburg), Rhein km 333.2, Flussmitte |
| breitengrad: 48.830796 | |
| laengengrad: 8.110804 | |
| rhein_ko_l | Rhein, Koblenz, Messstation der BfG, Rhein km 590.4, linkes Ufer |
| breitengrad: 50.349601 | |
| laengengrad: 7.599691 | |
| rhein_we_r | Rhein, YC Weil-Märkt, Rhein km 172.2, rechtes Ufer |
| breitengrad: 47.601589 | |
| laengengrad: 7.594340 | |
| saar_gu_m | Saar, Schleuse Güdingen, Saar km 92,9, Flussmitte |
| breitengrad: 49.212001 | |
| laengengrad: 7.023477 | |
| saar_re_m | Saar, Schleuse Rehlingen, Saar km 54.2, Flussmitte |
| breitengrad: 49.374082 | |
| laengengrad: 6.698360 |
Station descriptions: Schulze, T.; Ricking, M. (2005): Abschlussbericht: Entwicklung einer Verfahrensrichtlinie „Sedimente und Schwebstoffe“. Freie Universität Berlin, Umweltbundesamt, UBA, Berlin. Link