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FRIEND-Water Program

What is needed to bridge the data knowledge gap in hydrology?

EURO FRIEND

EURO-FRIEND is the oldest regional group that started in 1985 around the construction of a comprehensive shared hydrological database.

Today, the group includes 31 european countries gathered around the UNESCO Centre ICWRGC (International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change).

The EURO-FRIEND regional group is fully in line with the priorities of the IHP (Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme) and is particularly committed to the 3rd priority "Bridging the data and knowledge gaps".

The activities are structured around 3 main research questions:

  • How can droughts in streamflow be predicted from weather data and soil moisture conditions?
  • Are global hydrological models able to cpature observed spatial and temporal changes in hydrological regimes and extremes?
  • How can experimental river catchment studies enhance our understanding of hydrological processes at different scales?

 

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES REGIONAL PROJECTS TRAINING EVENTS

The ICWRGC also coordinates several database networks:

  • Network of the global water data centres GTN-H, in partnership with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS).
  • The GEMStat database on global freshwater quality
  • The ISMN database, International Soil Moisture Network
  • The Global Runoff Data Centre is an international data centre operating under the auspices of the WMO.

Project 1: European Water Archive

  • 2014 EURO‐FRIEND‐Water decision to freeze EWA
  • Use of GRDC portal for easy access to data

Project 2: Low Flow and Drought

Project coordination: Kerstin Stahl & Michael Stölzle (will end in 2022)

Project 3: Large‐scale variations

Project coordination: Bastien Dippois (took over from Nico Massei in 2021)

  1. International German Summer School on Hydrology focusing on groundwater topics (7th to 21st September 2022)
  2.  Workshops/training series

Between April and December 2022.

  • Session 1 "What is needed to bridge the data knowledge gap in Hydrology" by Dr S. Dietrich (ICWRGC/UNESCO, Germany)
  • Session 2 "Improving Reproducibility and Efficiency ‐ Use Cases of R in Hydrology" by T. Recknagel (GRDC/BfG, Germany)
  • Session 3 "Climate analysis in R" by Dr. R. Benestad (NMI, Norway)
  • Session 4 “Constructing and Communicating Regional Climate Change Scenarios” by Prof T. Shepherd (University of Reading, UK).
  • Session 5 “A hydrologist guide to open science” by N.Dogolu (Independent Researcher).
  • Session 6 “Large‐sample hydrology: learning from hundreds to thousands of catchments” by Dr N. Addor (University of Exeter and Fathom, UK) on October 12th, 2022 (2pm UTC).

Regional Chair

International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change

Regional coordinator of EURO-FRIEND:

Dr. Stephan Dietrich - Deputy director & GTN-H Coordinator

Contact : icwrgc@bafg.de

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