BALTEX Hydrological Data Centre

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The Hydrological Data Centre for BALTEX (BALTEX HDC) is a Swedish contribution to the international BalticSea Experiment BALTEX as a part of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment GEWEX of the WCRP (World Climate Research Programme).

SMHI hosts the BALTEX Data Centre for hydrology with the main objective to collect, store and distribute hydrological data, and information, from the BALTEX region to the BALTEX scientific community. 

The BHDC data base today consists of :

• Daily runoff data from stations marked on the maps of respective country. An over view of the contribution from different countries for the years 1980-89 and 1990-04 is shown.
• Monthly runoff data from stations and areas marked on Map 1 . And the number of stations for 1990-2004 are shown are shown here.
• Gridded meteorological data calculated from synoptic stations, Map 2.
• Hydrological, meteorological and related data from the special study basins (Torne-Kalix, Daugava and Odra rivers).
• Extended network of daily runoff data according to special project, INTAS

The data collected by the BHDC is supplied mainly by the different national institutes in the countries participating in BALTEX. The structure of the daily runoff data base is identical to the one that SMHI currently use for the Swedish national runoff network. In that way BHDC can benefit from any progress being made to the current data base structure at SMHI.  Meta data and other hydrological data are stored in a different databases designed solely for these purposes. Detailed information on the contents of the BALTEX HDC, including data from dense networks in four specific basins, will continuously become available at  Search the data bank.

For climatological studies a few very long runoff records shall be collected by the BALTEX HDC.

Other hydrological data that will be collected are: snow equivalent of water, soil moisture, information on ground water, ice observations, lake levels, lake and river temperature. These data will be collected from the contributing national institutes as available.

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