OZCAR – French network of Critical Zone Observatories: Research and Applications
The OZCAR hydrogeophysical database has been designed to store a wide range of hydrogeophysical data of the OZCAR network’s sites. It is open for archiving hydrogeophysical data and is interfaced with the Theia/OZCAR database.
Link to the OZCAR website : https://www.ozcar-ri.org/
OZCAR & RZA sites, whose data are currently hosted in the OZCAR hydrogeophysical database, are shown on the map below:
OZCAR data access
Below you can find a simple visualisation and access to the hydrogeophysical data of the OZCAR & RZA sites, inserted in the H+ database:
Auradé
Auradé catchment The Auradé site is a carbonate agricultural catchment (3.28 km²) drained by the Montoussé stream, a sub-tributary of the Save river. It is located 40 km west of Toulouse, in Gascogne hillsides of Southwstern France. It is an entirely agricultural basin, with crops (wheat/sunflower rotation) occupying 90% of its surface. More information can […]
Berambadi
Berambadi catchment Berambadi catchment (84 km2, 11°47’5N and 76°39’3E) is located in India on the Deccan plateau (Southwest part of Peninsular India). The monitoring of the site was initiated in 2005 in the Maddur sub-catchment (7.1 km2) of Berambadi, and extended to the entire Berambadi in 2010. More information can be found on the M-Tropics […]
Draix-Bléone
Draix-Bléone observatory The Draix-Bléone observatory is located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, near Digne-les-bains, South-East of France. Eight catchments with a surface of 0,0013 up to 34 km² are instrumented on the left (Draix site) and right banks of the Bléone river (Galabre site). More information can be found on the Draix-Bléone observatory website. Data availability Download […]
Houay Pano
Houay Pano catchment Located in Laos, the Houay Pano site is monitored by IRD in the framework of observatory M-Tropics in collaboration with the DALaM (Department of Agriculture and Land Management) LAO-PDR. More information can be found on the M-Tropics observatory website. Data availability Download links You can access the data categorized by different types […]
OHMCV observatory
Mont Lozère catchment The Mediterranean Hydrometerological Observatory Cévennes-Vivarais (OHMCV) is composed of four sets of instrumented sites characteristic of these regions subject to intense weather events (Mediterranean events). One of them is Mont Lozère catchment (14.5 km2 on granite, 5 sub-basins) in the Cevennes. More information can be found on the observatory website. Data availability […]
Nsimi
Nsimi catchment Nsimi experimental catchment (Mengong stream; 0.60 km2) is part of the Nyong River Basin (18,500 km2) located in a tropical humid forest mildly impacted by anthropogenic activities on the South Cameroon Plateau. More information can be found on the M-Tropics observatory website. Data availability Download links You can access the data categorized by […]
ObsERA
Observatory ObsERA The Observatory of water and erosion in the Antilles (OBServatoire de l’Eau et de l’éRosion aux Antilles – ObsERA) is located on Basse-Terre Island, a volcanic island of the Guadeloupe archipelago. ObsErA acquires data on 8 field sites belonging to 4 catchments located on Basse-Terre Island, a volcanic island of the Guadeloupe archipelago […]
Orgeval
Orgeval site The ORACLE research observatory is one of the oldest French observatories of the critical zone. It is located in the Paris basin (70 km east of Paris). The observatory is constituted of three catchments, including the Orgeval site (104 km²) with most of the instrumentation. More information can be found on the observatory website. Data […]
Saint Martin le Noeud
Saint Martin le Noeud site The Saint Martin le Noeud site is one of the 5 sites of the chalk karst observatory. It is an underground quarry, which us dug into weakly karstified fractured chalk, located in the Paris Basin. It is monitored by the METIS laboratory of the Sorbonne Universités (formerly UPMC-Paris6). More information […]
Strengbach
Strengbach catchment area Located in the Vosges Mountains, the Strengbach site is instrumented by the Observatoire Hydro-Géochimique de l’Environnement (OHGE). More information can be found on the OHGE observatory website Data availability Download links You can access the data categorized by different types of measurements from the provided links below: Hydrogeophysics KMZ viewer The viewer […]
Lautaret
Lautaret site The RZA, Network of Zones Ateliers (workshop sites) focus on a functional unit (a river and its watershed, landscapes – agricultural or urban – and biodiversity, from Antarctica to sub-Saharan Africa, or the coastline, or the environments characterized by chronic radiation of natural or enhanced natural origin) and develop a specific scientific approach […]