Hungarian national report on IAHS 2003–2006

Abstract

Hydrological research in Hungary is carried out mainly by the recently renamed Environmental Protection and Water Resources Research Institute (in Hungarian by the old acronym of VITUKI) and several other organizations, such as the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), the National Meteorological Service (NMS), the Pannon University (PU), the University of Miskolc (UM), and the University of Western Hungary (UWH), among others. This report aims to list (without striving to be exhaustive) major hydrologyrelated research and development that took place in the 2003–2006 reporting period in Hungary by the above listed institutions, putting an emphasis on the leading institution, VITUKI. In 2003 VITUKI started to build a new program, called MAHAB (Hungarian Hydrological Database), designed to facilitate data handling, storage and share of hydrology-related information. The National Hydrological Forecasting Service (NHFS within VITUKI) opened a new web-page (www.hydroinfo.hu) where historical and daily actual stage measurements are available to the public for selected gauging stations along the Danube (Nagymaros, Budapest, Mohacs) and Tisza (Vasarosnameny, Szeged) as well as on Lake Balaton (Siofok) going back to 1901. Also, NHFS has performed a complete recalibration of its Operational Hydrological Forecasting Model for the entire