F. Toussaint (PIK, Potsdam), M. Lautenschlager (DKRZ, Hamburg), M. Reinke (AWI, Bremerhaven)

The CERA Database Structure

BfG Conference Koblenz 22.-26.3.99: "...Data for Hydrology..."

Use of CERA-2 for Hydrological Meta Data

especially adapted to handle spatial meta data ...
... about physical measurements (waterlevel, discharge)
... of very different storage formats
quality information is kept (FGDC): accuracy, consistency, completeness, horiz. & vertical accuracy
extensible: individually for single sites (local extensions) and for groups of institutions (modules)
existing data (files, DBMS) can be integrated