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Hydrology is a data driven science. Its birth as a science in the late seventeenth century is asserted by the measurements of rainfall and river flow in France establishing the first experimental relation between these two physical quantities. Today highly sophisticated models mimicking the atmosphere-soil-vegetation interactions are used to simulate the flows but its proper calibration depends on good hydrometeorological data. New measuring techniques, like satellite or radar rainfall estimation or Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) for river flow determination, have enhanced the spatial resolution of both estimates allowing, at the same time, a more real-time insight into the rainfall-runoff phenomena. Data storage and dissemination capabilities are also evolving, allowing on-line data transfer between people, institutions and countries. This latter capability combined with the real-time perception of the water status in wide areas coming from hydrometeorological data measurements, improves the capacity for better and faster water management decisions to be taken. Portugal and Spain have signed a treaty in 1998 on Shared Waters which is still being improved steered by new data findings and its sharing. The present paper tackles the issue of what the experience of using new data gathering and transmission brought to the water management coordination between Spain and Portugal (e.g. on flood and drought management), as a good example on finer water-related collaboration.
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I would like to acknowledge the spirit of cooperation and invaluable contribution that my Spanish counterpart, Luiz Perez, made in resolving so many difficult flood situations upstream, which having been always so thoroughly mitigated, sometimes did not even produce upsets or shock downstream. I would also like to recall his frank manner of approaching each difficult scenario that invariably began by the point-of-situation’s reporting with his famous exclamation “vamos a ver …”
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Rodrigues, R.R. (2023). Bridging the Water Gap Between Neighboring Countries Through Hydrometeorological Data Monitoring and Sharing. In: Chastre, C., Neves, J., Ribeiro, D., Neves, M.G., Faria, P. (eds) Advances on Testing and Experimentation in Civil Engineering. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05875-2_14
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