IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prochp/978-3-319-99654-7_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Hydrometeorological Time Series Management—A Case Study from the Western Balkans

In: Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

Author

Listed:
  • Michael Haase

    (Hydrometeorological Institute of Kosovo)

  • Bashkim Kastrati

    (Hydrometeorological Institute of Kosovo)

  • Angel Marcev

    (Montenegro Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology)

  • Gerrit Bodenbender

    (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH)

  • Günter Meon

    (TU Braunschweig, Leichtweiß-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources - Section Hydrology)

  • Gerhard Riedel

    (TU Braunschweig, Leichtweiß-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources - Section Hydrology)

  • Nirina Ravalitera

    (World Meteorological Organization)

Abstract

Hydrometeorological services carry out observations on climatological and hydrological parameters. Time series management systems help to manage and archive these data efficiently. Available commercial solutions offer a broad range of functions to be drawn on. However, some hydrometeorological services might not be able to afford these solutions, in particular in developing countries. This article introduces the Meteorological, Climatological and Hydrological Database Management System (MCH) which is promoted by WMO to its members as an open source/freeware product for data management in this context. It lays out how MCH is applied within the project “Climate Change Adaptation in Flood Risk Management in the Western Balkans” which is jointly implemented in Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Applications developed in this context are introduced for spatial drought monitoring utilizing the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), hydrometeorological reporting in a homogenized yearbook format as well as data compilation from spatially distributed online data sources for flow and flood forecasting.

Suggested Citation

  • Michael Haase & Bashkim Kastrati & Angel Marcev & Gerrit Bodenbender & Günter Meon & Gerhard Riedel & Nirina Ravalitera, 2018. "Hydrometeorological Time Series Management—A Case Study from the Western Balkans," Progress in IS, in: Hans-Joachim Bungartz & Dieter Kranzlmüller & Volker Weinberg & Jens Weismüller & Volker Wohlgemuth (ed.), Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics, pages 39-49, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-319-99654-7_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99654-7_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-319-99654-7_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.