Environmental monitoring data

Data from both ongoing and completed monitoring studies are freely available, alongside descriptions of the data formats and the methods used to collect the data.

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The Swedish EPA and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management finance the national environmental monitoring in Sweden, and normally owns the data collected. These data are made freely accessible with a CC0 license, and are therefore free to use, re-use, distribute and aggregate. Specific orders of data may be charged, depending on the data volume and how it should be presented.

If the data collection was finances by another party, for example a County Administrative Board or local municipality, then the financer has the copyright for the data.

Find data

Data from environmental monitoring can be reached through the links below. The links go to webpages in Swedish.

Program areaType of dataData ownerData host
Toxic substances
 Metals and organic environmental toxins in biota, sediment and screening
 Swedish EPA Geological Survey of Sweden
Health Health-related environmental monitoring  Swedish EPA Institute of Environmental Medicine
Air Air data
 Swedish EPA
 Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Air Atmospheric chemical data. Ozone and dispersion calculations. Swedish EPA Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Agricultural land Pesticides, soil compaction, etc.
 Swedish EPA
 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Wetlands Wetland survey
 Swedish EPA
 The environmental data portal
Biological diversity
 Terrestrial species Swedish EPA
 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Freshwater Ground water
 Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
 Geological Survey of Sweden
Freshwater
 Chemical and biological data from lakes and streams (excluding fish stocks)
 Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Freshwater, sea and coastal areas
 Fish stocks in lakes, streams and coastal areas
 Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sea and coastal areas Oceanography and marine biology data from sea and coastal areas
 Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
 Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Bathing water Bathing water quality (havochvatten.se)
 Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
 The Public Health Agency of Sweden