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BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL INTEGRATED METEOROLOGICAL SYSTEM (SIMIN) AND ITS HYDROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS Allen Gerard, Bryce Ford Lockheed Martin – location: Syracuse, NY USA gerry.allen@lmco.com The Romanian National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (INMH) has implemented a program to modernize the national meteorological and hydrological infrastructure. The […]
BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 FLOOD POTENTIAL IN ALBANIA Agim Selenica Institute of Hydrometeorlogy of Albania, Rr. Durresit 219, Tirana, ALBANIA a.selenica@voila.fr The most important floods in the rivers of Albania are caused mainly from the intensive rainfall during the period December- March. Occasionally snowmelt have some contribution on flood […]
BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 EMPOWERMENT OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS IN COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION: LAKE PEIPSI (ESTONIA-RUSSIA) CASE STUDY Margit Säre Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation Aleksandri 9, 51004 Tartu, ESTONIA margit@ctc.ee Last decade has been for decision makers an intensive period for exploring new directions […]
BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 WATERSHED REGULATION AND MANAGEMENT OF METROPOLITAN CITY OF ISTANBUL Ahmet Demir, Mehmet Emin Birpinar, Gürdal Kanat Yýldýz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY kanat@yildiz.edu.tr Istanbul is one of the world’s most important cities in terms of history, culture, trade and tourism. Annual population increase is approximately 400.000. […]
BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ISTANBUL Gurdal Kanat1, Mehmet Emin Birpinar1, Ahmet Demir2 1Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY 2Yildiz Technical University, Environmental Engineering Department, 34349 Besiktas, Istanbul, TURKEY kanat@yildiz.edu.tr In recent years, mainly due to densely urbanization and migration to the cities, the cost of […]
BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 A SURVEY OF RISK PERCEPTION OF DRINKING WATER AND BOTTLED WATER USE Gurdal Kanat, Mehmet Emin Birpinar Yildiz Technical University, Environmental Engineering Department, 34349 Besiktas, Istanbul, TURKEY kanat@yildiz.edu.tr Public concerns about quality of drinking water have arisen as a result of increased awareness about environmental […]
BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT – AN EXAMPLE Werner Lahmer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) P.O.Box 60 12 03 – D-14412 Potsdam, GERMANY wernerlahmer@onlinehome.de Climate changes and various anthropogenic pressures on the environment have large impacts on the regional water cycle (water […]
BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 INFORMATICS SERVER FOR IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENT DATA – COLLECTING DATA FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES AND BUILD WARNING PROCEDURES ABOUT NORMAL AND EXTREME VALUE OF DATA DISTRIBUTION OVER A LARGE REGION Boris Sekirarski Hydrometeorological Service Skupi bb, 1000 Skopje, Republic of MACEDONIA bsekirarski@meteo.gov.mk Windows based solutions, without any […]
BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 OVERVIEW ON DIATOMS FROM OHRID LAKE A. Miho1, H. Lange-Bertalot2 1Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Tirana University, ALBANIA 2Botanisches Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Siesmayerstrasse 70, D-60323 Frankfurt/M, GERMANY amiho@icc-al.org Ohrid Lake represents a real treasure of biodiversity even considering microscopic algae, which […]
BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004 DROUGHT PERIODS DURING XXTH CENTURY Ekaterina Koleva, Vesselin Alexandrov, Nikola Slavov National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology Tzarigradsko shosse, 66 Sofia, BULGARIA Ekaterina.Koleva@meteo.bg The drought problem always exists somewhere in the world so that the economy of some nation or nations is always being adversely […]