After its 35th birthday last year, GRDC has achieved many successes in 2024. GRDC relies on the relationship with data providers and their support for the database. Building on this partnership, GRDC collected river discharge data from 44 countries last year. In 2024, 1772 stations could be updated so that the total number of stations in the GRDC database has grown to 10,836. In parallel, also the number of data requests from the data portal has constantly increased during the last years, reaching more than 13,000 downloads in 2024. The increase in downloads is reflected in the publication of scientific papers which include data from GRDC. Over the last five years, more than 100 papers have been published each year.
Building on the success of the WMO State of the Global Water Resources Report 2021 and 2022, GRDC has also supported the collection of discharge data for the 2023 report. In the last year, GRDC was able to further increase the number of participating countries to 54 and 713 stations in total. The report for the year 2023 can be accessed at: https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-water-resources-2023
With respect to outreach, GRDC was able to successfully present its activities to the public. The team was present at several international conferences and is currently involved in the preparation of different scientific articles. Highlights were also the release of the new website in September and the 15th Steering Committee meeting in June 2024. Since December, GRDC has also been conducting a user survey in order to improve its products in the future. The user survey is still active and can be accessed at: https://survey.lamapoll.de/GRDC-User-Survey
We at GRDC would like to express our sincere gratitude to our users and data providers. We are continuously working to improve relations with data providers for a better data exchange as well as to facilitate easier access to data and products to our users. GRDC is grateful for the high level of cooperation already achieved.
Together with the GRDC team, I personally wish you good health and all the best for 2025.
Simon Mischel
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