Title

Global Runoff Data Base (GRDC)

Date (Creation)

2022-08-25

Citation identifier

20782c33-a912-4160-b052-9cff4c4a7bbb

Abstract

World-wide repository of river discharge data for the exchange of hydrological data and information on the global scale.

The Global Runoff Data Base (GRDB) is built on an initial dataset collected in the early 1980s from the responses to a WMO request to its member countries to provide a global hydrological data set to complement a specific set of atmospheric data in the framework of the First Global GARP Experiment (FGGE). The initial dataset of monthly river discharge data over a period of several years around 1980 was supplemented with the UNESCO monthly river discharge data collection 1965-85. Today the database comprises discharge data of well over 10,000 gauging stations from all over the world.

Credit

Global Runoff Data Base

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
The Global Runoff Data Centre		grdc@bafg.de	Production Unit

Thèmes Sextant

• /Physical Environment/Terrestrial Hydrography

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Hydrography

Mission Atlantic - Resources

• Database

Mission Atlantic - Case Studies

• South Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Norwegian Sea

• Celtic Seas

• Atlantic Ocean

• Southern Benguela

• North Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Canary Current system

• South Brazilian Shelf

Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters

• /Cross-discipline/Fluxes

Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP)

• Spatial data products

Mission Atlantic - Work Package

• WP3 Pelagic Mapping

Use limitation

CC-BY-NC (Creative Commons - Attribution, No commercial usage)

Access constraints

Copyright

Use constraints

Copyright

Other legal constraints

The analysis and further processing of hydrological data as well as the use of statistical data products is permitted with an appropriate reference to the source of data as: "The Global Runoff Data Centre, 56068 Koblenz, Germany"

Spatial representation type

Grid

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	https://portal.grdc.bafg.de/	Access to the GRDC portal
WWW:LINK	https://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/01_GRDC/13_dtbse/database_node.html	GRDC website

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Metadata

File identifier

20782c33-a912-4160-b052-9cff4c4a7bbb

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2023-09-21T10:07:34.498Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Flanders Marine Institute	Patricia Martin-Cabrera	patricia.cabrera@vliz.be	Local service desk