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Datasets

HydroATLAS

Domain: Hydrology; Stream Characteristics

Variables: Hydro-environmental attributes; Elevation; Flow direction, Flow accumulation; Flow length

Spatial Resolution: 15-arc second

Temporal Frequency: NA

Temporal Coverage: NA

Spatial Extent: Global

Source: Academic Institution(s)

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Description:

HydroATLAS is a comprehensive database gathering and presenting a wide range of hydro-environmental attributes from existing global datasets in a consistent and organized manner. HydroATLAS is divided in two datasets, BasinATLAS and RiverATLAS, which represent sub-basin delineations (polygons) and the river network (lines), respectively. HydroATLAS offers attributes grouped in seven categories: hydrology; physiography; climate; land cover & use; soils & geology; and anthropogenic influences. In its first version, HydroATLAS contains 56 hydro-environmental variables, partitioned into 281 individual attributes.

Citation:

Linke, S., Lehner, B., Ouellet Dallaire, C., Ariwi, J., Grill, G., Anand, M., Beames, P., Burchard-Levine, V., Maxwell, S., Moidu, H., Tan, F., Thieme, M., 2019, Global hydro-environmental sub-basin and river reach characteristics at high spatial resolution, Scientific Data 6: 283, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0300-6