The precondition of success in Iran’s water resources management: easy access to hydro-climatic data

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Easy access to hydro-climatic data is a necessary precondition for the progress and success of any water resources research project. Without (easy) access to these data, realistic and reliable assessment of a catchment under study is impossible. The aim of this note is not to discuss the importance of the collection of hydro-climatic data but to emphasise the worthiness of easy access to such data. Briefly alluding to authors' personal experiences of data access issues, a few suggestions are made in order to develop a comprehensive online database of Iran's hydro-climatic data and water resources information easily accessible to the water research community, i.e. both national and international researchers.

• Author: Ali Torabi Haghighi; Sina Khatami; Mahdi Zarghami; Hossein Hashemi
• Department/s: Division of Water Resources Engineering; Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES); MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Iran-Water Resources Research
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
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• Document type: Journal article (letter)
• Publisher: Iranian Water Resources Association
• Topic: Water Engineering
• Keywords: hydro-climatic data; data access; data; open-access data; water resources management; Iran; water resources; hydrology; hydro-climatology; water research community
• Status: Published