Charles Vorosmarty, Balazs Fekete, Water Systems Analysis Group, Complex Systems Research Office, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
A global hydrological database is considered essential for research and application-oriented hydrological and climatological projects at global, regional and basin scales. This includes water balance studies, investigation of trends in long-term hydrological time series, coupling of hydrological and meteorological models, flux of fresh water and pollutants into the oceans, and the coupling of runoff with water quality data. Monitoring of runoff is indispensable for water resources planning and management on all scale levels. The principal objective of the GRDC is to collect and disseminate hydrological data to support projects within the World Climate Programme (WCP) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) as well as for other programmes such as the World Hydrological Climate Observing System (WHYCOS) of WMO and the World Bank and the Global Environment Monitoring System - Water (GEMS-Water) of UNEP and WHO.
This description of a site outside SERC has not been vetted by SERC staff and may be incomplete or incorrect. If you
have information we can use to flesh out or correct this record let us know.
This resource originally cataloged at:
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Audio/Visual:Maps Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, General Public, College Upper (15-16), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14) Theme: Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Hydrology/Hydrogeology, Teach the Earth:Teaching Topics:WaterKeywords: basin, water quality, watershed, stream flow, hydrologic models
