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GSCD

Global Streamflow Characteristics Dataset

Overview

The Glob­al Stream­flow Char­ac­ter­is­tics Dataset (GSCD) con­sists of glob­al maps of 17 stream­flow char­ac­ter­is­tics, such as base­flow index, runoff coef­fi­cient, and flow per­centiles, pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion about runoff behav­ior for the entire land sur­face includ­ing ungauged regions.
The maps are unique in that they were derived using a data-dri­ven (top down) approach based on stream­flow obser­va­tions from thou­sands of catch­ments around the globe, as opposed to a phys­i­cal­ly-based (bot­tom up) process mod­el. For more infor­ma­tion, see the fol­low­ing open-access papers: 

Download

The lat­est ver­sion of the GSCD (ver­sion 2.0) can be down­loaded here (372 MB). See the tech­ni­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion for the ver­sion his­to­ry. The data are released under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license and thus may not be used for com­mer­cial pur­pos­es. If the dataset forms a key com­po­nent of your research, we kind­ly ask that you give us the oppor­tu­ni­ty to com­ment on your results pri­or to pub­li­ca­tion. By using the GSCD in any pub­li­ca­tion you agree to cite the above-men­tioned papers. 

Acknowledgements

The fol­low­ing orga­ni­za­tions are thanked for pro­vid­ing stream­flow and/or catch­ment bound­ary data: the Unit­ed States Geo­log­i­cal Sur­vey (USGS), the Glob­al Runoff Data Cen­tre (GRDC), the Brazil­ian Agen­cia Nacional de Aguas, EURO-FRIEND-Water, the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion Joint Research Cen­tre (JRC), the Water Sur­vey of Cana­da (WSC), the Aus­tralian Bureau of Mete­o­rol­o­gy (BoM), and the Chilean Cen­ter for Cli­mate and Resilience Research (CR2, CONICYT/FONDAP/15110009).