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The Mediterranean Hydrological Cycle Observing
System
- MED-HYCOS -
http // medhycos . com
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Mediterranean Hydrological Cycle Observing System
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World Hydrological Cycle Observing System

• WHYCOS

What is Whycos Why Whycos Where is Whycos
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WHY WHYCOS

• The need was recognized for a system which could
  provide accurate and reliable hydrological data
• To support national and river basin water
  resources development projects
• To support regional and global studies requiring
  water resources information

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WHAT IS WHYCOS

• The objectives
• Strengthen technical and institutional
  capabilities of Hydrological Services
• Establish a global network of key national
  stations
• Promote and facilitate dissemination and use of
  water-related information

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WHERE WHYCOS
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MED-HYCOS Phase I 1995-2000
http // medhycos . com
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MED-HYCOS Institutional Framework

• Regional Co-operating Group
• Initial Co-ordinating Group
• Pilot Regional Centre
• Regional Task Forces

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Regional Co-operation Group
Eligible Countries (15/25) ICG countries
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Initial Co-ordinating Group

• 9 countries
• Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Italy,
• Malta, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia
• 5 organisations
• WMO
• World Bank
• Friend-Amhy
• Medias-France
• IRD - ORSTOM

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MED-HYCOS Co-operation Network PHASE I -
1995-2000
PRC
DCP
Regional co-operation
National Hydrological Services
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MED-HYCOS PHASE I - 1995-2000Main Achievments

• Objective 1 Network of METEOSAT DCPs
• Objective 2 MED-HYCOS Information System
• Regional Data Base / Tools
• Web Site / CD-ROM
• Objective 3 Support to NHSs
• Computers and software
• Training material and sessions
• Objective 4 Co-operation infrastructure
• Initial Co-ordinating Group
• 9 countries, 5 organisations
• International Meetings
• Croatia, France, Lebanon, Malta, Tunisia

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OBJECTIVE 1 Installation of the DCPs network

• Hydrometeorological Data Collecting goals
• to survey the evolution of resources on main
  rivers and ground water tables
• to evaluate hydrological cycle variables on small
  scale representative catchments (Rainfall,
  Runoff, ETP, etc.)
• to monitor dams management and water transfer
  between catchments
• to contribute to the water sharing between users
• to evaluate pollution flows to the sea
• etc.

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MED-HYCOS Data Collecting Platforms
PM 46 CEIS-TM
Antenna
Air temperature
Rainfall Recorder
Data logger
Solar Panel
Water level sensor
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DCPs Basic Measurements
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DCPs specifications

• Multisensors
• water quantity and quality sensors
• meteorological sensors
• Self powered
• METEOSAT capacity / free of charge
• Data storage on site on flash memory
• Easy implementation, maintenance and operation

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Acquisition and transmission modes

• Acquisition
• Flash memory 2 Mo
• Sampling interval from 1 mn to 1 hour
• Water level threshold of 1 cm
• Representative periods from 1 mn to 1 day
• METEOSAT Teletransmission
• hourly pre-processed values
• emitting every 3 hours

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Water Quality Additionnal Sensors

• Water quality probes
• Water T
• Turbidity
• Conductivity
• Dissolved O2
• pH

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Meteorological additionnal sensors

• Meteorological sensors
• Wind speed and direction
• Air T
• Relative humidity
• Solar radiation
• Pressure

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Teletransmission System ...
and Data Flow
METEOSAT Satellite
Data Collecting Platforms
Direct Reception Meteosat Station
Ground Processing
EUMETSAT WEB SITE
Warning Monitoring
Data
Dissemination on INTERNET and CD-ROM
Tools
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Installation of a MED-HYCOS Data Collecting
Platform
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OBJECTIVE 2 MED-HYCOS Information System
MHIS aims

• At regional level to offer
• Information related to project activities
• Information on water resources in the
  Mediterranean
• Regional database and tools
• DCP real time hourly data
• Near real time daily data
• Historical daily and monthly data
• At national level to offer
• MED-HYCOS Support concerning
• data acquisition, management, and processing
• technologies

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Different types of software

• To administrate the Regional data base
• updating, management and maintenance
• To accede to the Regional data base
• through the Web site technologies
• To deal with data through the client-software

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Data Management in PRC

• ORACLE interfaced with Internet
• Data qualification
• validation by NHS
• Data standardisation
• according to WMO Standards
• Elaborated data by PRC
• simple statistical analysis, etc.

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Data Access and Processing

• WEB Data box
• On line simple graphical tools
• CGI Technology
• Html Documents
• - Graphic representations -
• Client Software
• Off Line Standalone Modules
• - Statistical, numerical, and
  cartographic processing -

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To deal with data trough the client software

• To evaluate the data set at disposal
• Data Inventory
• Graphic representation
• Comparison
• Data processing
• Simple statistical analysis
• Simple graphic representation
• Data Export towards commercial standard software
• Data Publication
• Cartographic tools to represent spatial
  hydrological parameters

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Hydrological Data available in MED-HYCOS PRC

• MED-HYCOS
• 113 stations
• 29 running DCPs with hydrometeorological data
• 4753 station-year
• GRDC hydrological data
• 518 stations (9630 station-year)
• Blue Plan hydrological series
• 12 stations (760 station-year)

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Med-Hycos Home Page
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Mapping Application
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Mapping Application
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Mapping Application
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Mapping Application
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Members corner
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Database Statistics
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Stations Inventory
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CD-ROM Version 3
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CD-ROM Version 3
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Mapping tool
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Mapping tool - Options
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Data access and cartographic tools
Digital elevation model and hydrographic networks
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Hydrographic networks
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MEDMAP Local Access database
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MEDMAP Mapping Tools
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Management and processing tools
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Eumetsat Web Site
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Statistic information
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Streamflow discharges visualisation
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Correlation between two variables
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DCP s state information

• Picture and RTF documents in the Database
• DCP s state information

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Monthly report on database
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MED-CLIM Data visualisation tool
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Monthly rainfall data spatial representation
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Monthly temperature data spatial representation
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Mountly Rainfall and Temperature Data
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Main Mediterranean streams and rivers
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OBJECTIVE 3 Improvement of the National
Hydrological Services

• Provision of acquisition and processing equipment
  
• Data collecting Platforms
• Computer, devices, commercial software
• Supply of hydrological software
• Organisation of training sessions
• Data acquisition, transmission, management
• processing and dissemination
• Welcome of experts from partner countries in
  PRC, etc.

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Improvement of the National Hydrological Services

• Provision of acquisition and processing equipment
  
• Data collecting Platforms
• Computer, devices, common software
• Supply of hydrological software
• Organisation of training sessions
• Data acquisition, transmission, management
• processing and dissemination
• Welcome of experts from partner countries in
  PRC, etc.

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TRAINING TOPICS

• Hydrometric measurement
• Data Acquisition and Transmission Technologies
• Data Processing Tools
• Data Base Conception and Management
• Data Dissemination
• Cartographic software
• WEB site Development and Maintenance, etc.

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TRAININGS
Toulouse, 1996
Croatia, 1997
Montpellier, 1998
Beyrouth, 1999
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New technologies
Montpellier September - October 2000
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MED-HYCOS Tools
Montpellier October 2000
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OBJECTIVE 4 Creation of a co-operation
infrastructure

• To reinforce the links between the partner
  countries favouring the exchange of capabilities
  and expertise
• To present the activities of the National
  Hydrological Services
• To favour the activities related to funds sinking
  
• To establish links with other networks and
  partners
• etc...

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Hycos Meetings
Malta, November 1997
Pacific-Hycos, October 1999 Fidji
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Information Infrastructure
Information Means

• Internet Web Site
• http//medhycos.mpl.ird.fr
• CD-ROM version 1.0 bundle
• Brochure publishing
• Contacts between the MED-HYCOS partners and with
  other initiatives
• GWP, IME, WMN, Blue Plan, etc .
• ESIMEAU

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Information Infrastructure
Information Products
Co-operation fields

• Project activities reports,
• Training aids,
• Elaborated Data,
• Technical Papers,
• Thematic Analysis,
• Software, Tools, etc.
• Demonstration projects

• Water quantity and quality assessment
• Watershed and Dam management, etc.

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Site Map
medhycos . com
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Website
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Website
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Website
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Website
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Website
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Website
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Website
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Website
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Website
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Water resources of Albania
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Water resources of Albania
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Prototype ActiveMap
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Prototype ActiveMap
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Mid Term Targets 2001
Targets

• At regional level, to supply a sound basis of
  hydrometeorological data and reliable information
  related to water assessment and management
• At national level, to extend the National
  Hydrological Services capabilities and know-how

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MED-HYCOS Project Phase II design

• The Mediterranean Water Resources Observatory

• At regional level
• Thematic Networks animated by
• Thematic Centres (ex Belgrade)
• At subregional level
• River Basin Projects (Drini, Struma,)
• At national level
• Support to NHS Activities
• MHIS / MHWS

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MED-HYCOS Objectives 2002-2005

• 1 - Mediterranean Hydrological Information System
• through the implementation of National
  Information Systems
• 2 - Improvement of Hydrometeorological Data
  Collecting Network
• through the installation of new DCP and NRT
  stations
• 3 - Dissemination of Water resources assessment
  products
• through the promotion of Thematic networks
  between NHS and research centres and universities

T R A I N I N G
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Phase 2 2002-2005 Main expected Outputs
To contribute to a sustainable water management
by providing

• Surface water resources survey for the major
  river basins
• Provision of consistent data for international
  river basins
• Variability of the water cycle components
• Diagnostics on wide droughts and floods
• Tools for water management in extreme situations
• Assessment of pollution at local and regional
  scales
• Evaluation of the impacts of climate /
  environment changes on water resources, etc.

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Phase 2 2002-2005 MED-HYCOS Products

• National Hydrological Services (NHS)
• Data on rivers discharges
• Statistical analysis of hydrological data
• NHS in relation with water managers
• Inventory of different water resources uses
  (storage, transfer, withdrawal and return flows)
• NHS in relation with other Projects / Networks
• Description and follow-up of the physical,
  biological and socio-economical environment of
  the river basins
• Streamflows modelling
• Elaboration and monitoring of water quality
  indexes, etc.

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MED-HYCOS - PHASE II - 2002-2005
NHS / TC
NIS
PRC
NIS
NIS
NIS
New DCP
DCP phase I
NIS / TC
Thematic Network
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About 60 of the surface of Mediterranean
catchments

• Some basins not covered
• Drini as the third European Mediterranean basin
• Large islands as Sardine, Sicily
• Aegean Cost
• North Africa except Tunisia
• Abundant Springs
• Dumanli in Turkey (50 m3/s)
• Stella in italy (37 m3/s)
• Fontaine de Vaucluse ( 25 m3/s), etc.

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Other criteria for the choice of new stations

• Stations with long hydrological series and good
  rating curves
• Rivers with non influenced regimes
• Rivers with extreme hydrological regimes
• Rivers with increasing anthropogenic influences
• deforestation
• urbanisation
• irrigation, etc.
• Transboundary and boundary rivers

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Links with others programs
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CONCLUSION
Thanks to a DCP network using modern
technologies, ...
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CONCLUSION
thanks to the implementation of an
open information system, and...
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CONCLUSION
thanks to an existing operational co-operation inf
rastructure
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CONCLUSION
MED-HYCOS Programme...
must offer the appropriate structure
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CONCLUSION

• to improve a Regional co-operation between
  hydrologists
• reinforcing their capabilities to produce high
  quality data,
• and favouring the exchange of expertise and
  capacities
• to start-up a Mediterranean Water Observatory
• offering reliable information to the
  international community
• and to support Scientific Research, Planning, and
  Management Programmes

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CONTACT
http// medhycos . com morell _at_ ird.fr
MED-HYCOS PRC c/o IRD BP 5045 AGROPOLIS 34032
Montpellier Tel [phone] Fax
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