Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC)

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1 Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) GRDC activities in the context of GEO/GEOSS Februar 2016 BfG, Koblenz Ulrich Looser

2 GRDC operational environment Operates under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on the advice of an International Steering Committee with the financial support of the Federal Republic of Germany within the Federal Institute of Hydrology

3 GRDC Main functions Acquisition and storage of global historical discharge data and associated metadata Dissemination of historical discharge data ( station-years) and derived products from currently ~ 9200 stations in 160 countries ( One-stop shop ) according to GRDC data policy, which is based on WMO Resolution 25 (Cg-XIII-1999) not GEO data sharing principles Support to the water and climate related programmes and projects of the United Nations and their specialised agencies Service to the international research community on global change and climate services Cooperation and participation in international projects and programmes such as: GCOS (Global Climate Observing System) UNESCO IHP FRIEND-Water (Flow Regime from International Experimental and Network Data) GEO (Group on Earth Observations) GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Exchanges) OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Hydrology Domain Working Group etc. The GRDC is not substituting the functions of the National Hydrological Services Ownership of the data remains with the original Data Provider

4 Status of the Global Runoff Database Global Coverage of 9252 GRDC Stations indicated by time series end > station years

5 GRDC activities in the context of GEO/GEOSS 2007-today 2007-today 2007-today 2007-today Numerous contributions to GEO work plans and programmes Participation and contributions to a number of GEO/GEOSS workshops, meetings and webinars GRDC data provisioning to several GEO/GEOSS initiatives such as the African Water Cycle Coordination Initiatives and GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilots (AIPs) Presentation of work at conferences, workshops and in journals on work that has been done with GRDC involvement in support of GEO/GEOSS

6 GRDC activities in the context of GEO/GEOSS (continued) 2007 Since 2007 GEO Secretariat is represented on the biennial GRDC Steering Committee Meetings 2007 GRDC poster presentation and contribution to the Progress Report on Early Achievements at the GEO- IV Ministerial Summit in Cape Town, South Africa 2010 GRDC flyers prepared for GEO-VII Ministerial Summit in Beijing, China Participation and preparation of several HARON ( Hydrological Applications and Run-Off Network ) proposals together with the GEO Secretariat for EU funding to upgrade the GTN-R network Successful participation in FP7 call for funding of the GEOWOW Project ( GEOSS interoperability for Weather, Ocean and Water )

7 GRDC activities in the context of GEO/GEOSS (continued) GEOSS interoperability for Weather, Ocean and Water (GEOWOW) (September 2011 August 2014) Lead: ESA Work Package 5 (Water) Partners: University of Bonn, BfG/GRDC, 52 N, Kisters Task 1: User Interface Water: Identification of user requirements Task 2: Standardisation of exchange of hydrological data Task 3: Use case deployment for interoperable hydrological data integration (including updating of Global Fresh Water Fluxes based on WaterGAP) Task 4: Contribution to cross-domain use cases Task 5: Preparation of hydrological data services for GCI integration

8 Registration of GRDC Services in the GEOSS Registry

9 Availability of GRDC Services in the GEOSS Portal (via BfG Geoportal & GDI-DE)

10 Global Terrestrial Network for River Discharge (GTN-R) Network Status as of 1 March Stations confirmed 160 Stations to be clarified

11 Global Terrestrial Network for River Discharge (GTN-R) Data access according to GEO data sharing principles

12 Global Freshwater Fluxes to the World Oceans 50 years data ( ) for 0.5 grid cell resolution based on WaterGAP results GIWA regions (UNEP - Global International Waters Assessment) 5 Cells along the coast lines 5 and 10 Latitude bands

13 Plans for future GRDC Operations Investigate and implement new operational system to support GRDC functionality Implementation of WMO/OGC HDWG developed standards Implement and improve web services for data provisioning Register more GRDC datasets and products with the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (Arctic-HYCOS stations, GRDC Watershed Boundaries etc.) Contribute to GEO Work Programme (CA-07 Integrated Water-cycle Products and Services and CA-12 River Discharge) Data acquisition Negotiate for more data to be available under GEO data sharing principles Institutionalisation of data provision Near real-time data for GTN-R Standardisation Standardisation of hydrologic data exchange formats and hydrologic feature models within the hydrological community in support of the WMO CHy and National Hydrological Services (results from WMO/OGC Hydrology Domain Working Group activities)

14 Partner Data Centres Precipitation: GPCC gpcc.dwd.de Global Precipitation Climatology Centre Offenbach, Germany Water Quality: GEMS/Water GEMStat Global Environment Monitoring System of UNEP DEWA Koblenz, Germany Groundwater: IGRAC International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre Delft, The Netherlands Lakes and Reservoirs: HYDROLARE International Centre on the Hydrology of Lakes and Reservoirs St. Petersburg, Russia

15 more than 27 Years GRDC Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) Ulrich Looser (Head) Irina Dornblut Thomas de Couet Johannes Pauler web: Thank you for your attention!