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The Danube River Basin is shared by 19 countries and there is no river basin in the world shared by so many nations. Europe's second largest river basin with a total 2 area of about 800,000 km is also home to 83 million people of different cultures, languages and historical backgrounds. Management of common water sources and overcoming dif?culties caused by droughts and ?oods requires co-operation between the countries. In 1971 these c- mon interests stimulated the hydrologists of - at that time - eight Danube countries to begin regional co- operation in the framework of the International Hydrological Decade of UNESCO. The result of this research was The Hydrological Monograph of the Danube and its Catchment, which was published in 1986. Since 1975 this co-operation has continued under the umbrella of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO. In the past 20 years political turbulence has caused an increase in the number of countries, making the co-operation dif?cult at times.
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History and Results of the Hydrological Co-operation of the Countries Sharing the Danube Catchment (1971-2008).- The Danube River and its Basin Physical Characteristics, Water Regime and Water Balance.- Palaeogeography of the Danube and Its Catchment.- Danube River Basin Coding.- Characterization of the Runoff Regime and Its Stability in the Danube Catchment.- Coincidence of Flood Flow of the Danube River and Its Tributaries.- Basin-Wide Water Balance in the Danube River Basin.- Thermal and Ice Regimes of the Danube River and Its Tributaries.- Sediment Regime of the River Danube (1956-1985).- Training of the Danube River Channel.- The Fords of the Danube.- Forecast Uncertainties in the Operational Flood Forecasting of the Bavarian Danube Catchment.- Sarib.
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The Danube River Basin is shared by 19 countries and there is no river basin in the world shared by so many nations. Europe’s second largest river basin with a total 2 area of about 800,000 km is also home to 83 million people of different cultures, languages and historical backgrounds. Management of common water sources and overcoming dif?culties caused by droughts and ?oods requires co-operation between the countries. In 1971 these c- mon interests stimulated the hydrologists of – at that time – eight Danube countries to begin regional co- operation in the framework of the International Hydrological Decade of UNESCO. The result of this research was The Hydrological Monograph of the Danube and its Catchment, which was published in 1986. Since 1975 this co-operation has continued under the umbrella of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO. In the past 20 years political turbulence has caused an increase in the number of countries, making the co-operation dif?cult at times.
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“… Im neu erschienenen Buch werden die Ergebnisse der vielfältigen Kooperationen von der Zustanderfassung und der Modellierung über die Vorhersage bis hin zur Umsetzung der aktuellen politischen Rahmenvorgaben von einem Autorenkollektiv in 13 Einzelkapiteln dargestellt, womit dieses Buch auch zu einer wertvollen Bibliografie der Aktivitäten im Donau-Raum wird.“ (in: WasserWirtschaft, 2011, Vol. 101, Issue 5, S. 69)
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Aus den Rezensionen:
"... Im neu erschienenen Buch werden die Ergebnisse der vielfältigen Kooperationen von der Zustanderfassung und der Modellierung über die Vorhersage bis hin zur Umsetzung der aktuellen politischen Rahmenvorgaben von einem Autorenkollektiv in 13 Einzelkapiteln dargestellt, womit dieses Buch auch zu einer wertvollen Bibliografie der Aktivitäten im Donau-Raum wird." (in: WasserWirtschaft, 2011, Vol. 101, Issue 5, S. 69)
