River discharge data from Global Data Runoff Center (GRDC)

[amotl]

Hi there,

@gutzbenj also wants to add acquisition features for hydrological data. What is outstanding here is the Global Data Runoff Center (GRDC) [1], the world-wide repository of river discharge data and associated metadata. It was formally established in 1988 at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) and operates under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

For Riv­er Dis­charge Da­ta, the station catalogue is available as well as data in formats like GRDC Export, WaterML2 and ZRXP is available at [2].

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[1] https://gcos.dwd.de/DWD-GCOS/EN/nationalcontributions/servicesforgcos/intdatacentres/grdc/grdc_node.html
[2] https://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/02_srvcs/21_tmsrs/riverdischarge_node.html

[changliao1025]

I am also interested using API to access GRDC data. But based on their website https://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/02_srvcs/21_tmsrs/210_prtl/faqs.html?nn=2862854#doc2862864bodyText12

Is there an API to get GRDC discharge data automatically?
Unfortunately, not. As an international data center working on behalf of WMO Member countries, GRDC is the custodian of discharge data from over one hundred Hydrological and Meteorological Services worldwide. This mandate obliges the GRDC to strictly implement the conditions for the data exchange of the WMO community set by the WMO Congress in order to protect the data ownership of national services. This requires an identified access to hydrological data, as well as an explicit acceptance of the general Terms of Use and Data Protection Regulations, and the GRDC Data Sharing Conditions by the user.