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The <strong>BALTEX</strong> Hydrological Data Centre, BHDC<br />

Bengt Carlss<strong>on</strong><br />

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SE - 60176 Norrköping, Sweden, Bengt.Carlss<strong>on</strong>@smhi.se<br />

1. The <strong>BALTEX</strong> HDC<br />

SMHI in Norrköping, Sweden, hosts the <strong>BALTEX</strong><br />

Hydrological Data Centre. The main objective is to<br />

c<strong>on</strong>centrate specific types of hydrological data and<br />

informati<strong>on</strong> about this data at <strong>on</strong>e locati<strong>on</strong>.<br />

http://www.smhi.se/bhdc gives you all necessary<br />

informati<strong>on</strong> about what data is available and how to<br />

receive data from the BHDC<br />

The BHDC data base today c<strong>on</strong>sists of:<br />

Daily runoff data from runoff stati<strong>on</strong>s, Figure 1.<br />

M<strong>on</strong>thly runoff data from coast secti<strong>on</strong>s, Figure 2.<br />

Gridded meteorological data (1 deg. lat x 1 deg. l<strong>on</strong>g.)<br />

interpolated from synoptic stati<strong>on</strong>s, Figure 3.<br />

Hydrological and meteorological data from the special<br />

study Torne River basin and runoff data from the special<br />

study basins of the Daugava and Odra rivers.<br />

2. Data policy<br />

The regulati<strong>on</strong>s for the use of data are set through<br />

agreements between SMHI - <strong>BALTEX</strong> HDC and the<br />

providing institute, and user of the data and the SMHI -<br />

<strong>BALTEX</strong> HDC<br />

Data delivery by the <strong>BALTEX</strong> HDC is strictly limited to<br />

groups of scientists which are officially registered as<br />

<strong>BALTEX</strong> Data Users. The delivery of data from the<br />

supplying institute will be free of charge. The istributi<strong>on</strong><br />

costs at the <strong>BALTEX</strong> HDC will be covered by the user.<br />

3. Data management<br />

The data collected by the BHDC is supplied mainly by<br />

the different nati<strong>on</strong>al institutes in the countries<br />

participating in <strong>BALTEX</strong>. The structure of the daily<br />

runoff data base is identical to the <strong>on</strong>e that SMHI<br />

currently uses for the Swedish nati<strong>on</strong>al runoff network.<br />

In that way BHDC can benefit from any progress being<br />

made to the current data base structure at SMHI. Meta<br />

data and other hydrological data are stored in different<br />

data bases designed solely for these purposes. Data from<br />

the data base will be provided to <strong>BALTEX</strong> Data Users<br />

up<strong>on</strong> request<br />

4. Time periods of data<br />

The Warsaw hydrology workshop suggested including<br />

daily runoff data for the period 1980 and <strong>on</strong>wards in the<br />

archives of BHDC. The Status report 2003 describes the<br />

status of the data base today.<br />

M<strong>on</strong>thly runoff data is collected from 1950 and <strong>on</strong>wards.<br />

Other hydrological data will be collected depending <strong>on</strong><br />

their availability and specific requirements from the<br />

<strong>BALTEX</strong> modelling community. Most of these data are<br />

not measured routinely and are <strong>on</strong>ly available from<br />

specific experiments.<br />

Figure 1. Daily Runoff Stati<strong>on</strong>s in the Baltic Sea<br />

Drainage Basin

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