Abstract:
In July 1999, a Workshop on Global Water Databases was held at the IUGG Congress in Birmingham, UK. The Workshop was convened by several IAHS Commissions (ICASVR, ICWQ, ICSW, ICCE), WMO, the IAHS-WMO Joint Working Group, and IGBP-BAHC. Its purpose was to review the current status of global water databases and how these information resources could be used in synthesis studies of the terrestrial
... water cycle and in water resources assessment.
Workshop participants also called for the creation of a WWWeb-based meta-data listing of key water-related data sets. This Web site represents the initial contents of the on-line meta-data repository. Currently, the individual listings represent data sets directly associated with the Workshop participants, but holdings are expected to grow as more data sets are located and information about these data sets mounted.
The data entries represent a broad spectrum of research in the water sciences and include both biophysical as well as socio-economic information resources. The listings presented here provide a summary of each individual entry, contact information, data parameters, and other data attributes. 
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