The GCOS Secretariat is pleased to announce that the Global Terrestrial Network for River Discharge (GTN-R) was accredited as a GCOS Affiliated Networks.
The Global Terrestrial Network for River Discharge (GTN-R) is the river discharge component of the Global Terrestrial Network - Hydrology (GTN-H) to support the Global Climate Observing system (GCOS) and the Hydrology and Water Resources Programme of the WMO (HWRP).
The GCOS Secretariat is pleased to announce that the Global Terrestrial Network for Rivers (GTN-R) was accredited as a GCOS Affiliated Networks.
GTN-R represents a subset of the Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC, hosted by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology and serving as a global hydrological data centre under the auspices of WMO since 1988) with more than 300 river discharge gauging stations near the mouth of World's major rivers, at the interface between the land and marine domains. The long-term dataset provided by GTN-R is fundamental for assessing water resources at global level and their changes due to climate variability and change. By providing freshwater flux data into the oceans, GTN-R also gives valuable information complementing ocean observations for what concerns, e.g., coastal salinity and ocean stratification.
The GTN-R application was carefully reviewed by the GCOS Network Manager and experts from the GCOS Panels, following the procedure for GCOS Networks Accreditation. The consistency with the GCOS Climate Monitoring Principles was acknowledged.
The GCOS Secretariat congratulates with the Global Terrestrial Network for Rivers for this achievement and is looking forward to further reinforcing the collaboration with the GTN-R as one of the key Global Terrestrial Networks for climate in-situ observations.
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- I would add the certificate as an attachment
- A figure could be added, like the one here below
- The related news could linked to the WMO website (if they agree) and also to:
https://community.wmo.int/en/governance/commission-membership/co/gcos-steering-committee/terrestrial-observation-panel-climate/global-terrestrial-network-river-discharge (see "Related News").
