The following list contains peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, books and international conferences to which GRDC members have contributed in the past. As GRDC has a long history, this list is not complete yet and will be continuously updated.
Peer-reviewed journals
Färber, C., Plessow, H., Mischel, S. A., Kratzert, F., Addor, N., Shalev, G., and Looser, U.: GRDC-Caravan: extending Caravan with data from the Global Runoff Data Centre, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 4613–4625, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4613-2025, 2025.
Cerbelaud, A., David, C. H., Pavelsky, T., Biancamaria, S., Garambois, P.-A., Kittel, C., et al.: Satellite requirements to capture water propagation in Earth’s rivers. Reviews of Geophysics, 63, e2024RG000871. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RG000871, 2025.
Mischel. S.A., Zentis C. and Plessow, H.: The BALTEX dataset of the Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC): a dataset of river discharge draining into the Baltic Sea. Front. Environ. Sci. 13:1599188. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1599188, 2025.
Dorigo, W., Dietrich, S., Aires, F., Brocca, L., Carter, S., Cretaux, J., Dunkerley, D., Enomoto, H., Forsberg, R., Güntner, A., Hegglin, M. I., Hollmann, R., Hurst, D. F., Johannessen, J. A., Kummerow, C., Lee, T., Luojus, K., Looser, U., Miralles, D. G., Pellet, V., Recknagel, T., Vargas, C. R., Schneider, U., Schoeneich, P., Schröder, M., Tapper, N., Vuglinsky, V., Wagner, W., Yu, L., Zappa, L., Zemp, M., & Aich, V.: Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 102, E1897–E1935, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0316.1, 2021.
Santoro, M., Andres, V., Jirka, S., Koike, T., Looser, U., Nativi, S., Pappenberger, F., Schlummer, M., Strauch, A., Utech, M. and Zsoter, E.: Interoperability challenges in river discharge modelling: A cross domain application scenario. Computers & Geosciences, 115, 66-74, 2018.
Atkinson, R., Dornblut, I., and Smith, D.: An international standard conceptual model for sharing references to hydrologic features. Journal of Hydrology, 424, 24-36, 2012.
Lemon, D., Zaslavsky, I., and Looser, U.: WaterML 2.0: New Tool for Water Resource Management. GeoInformatics, 15(6), 28, 2012.
Whitfield, P. H., Burn, D. H., Hannaford, J., Higgins, H., Hodgkins, G. A., Marsh, T., and Looser, U.: Reference hydrologic networks I. The status and potential future directions of national reference hydrologic networks for detecting trends. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 57(8), 1562–1579. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2012.728706, 2012.
Fekete, B. M., U. Looser, A. Pietroniro, and R. D. Robarts: Rationale for Monitoring Discharge on the Ground. J. Hydrometeor., 13, 1977–1986, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-11-0126.1, 2012.
Hannah, D.M., Demuth, S., van Lanen, H.A.J., Looser, U., Prudhomme, C., Rees, G., Stahl, K. and Tallaksen, L.M.: Large-scale river flow archives: importance, current status and future needs. Hydrol. Process., 25: 1191-1200. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7794, 2011.
Books
Fekete, B.M. et al. (2021). Observations, Monitoring and Data Management. In: Bogardi, J.J., et al. Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60147-8_13