Useful Links

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Want to have a one-stop page for useful datasets, links, and other resources.

Datasets

Global Data

  • Global Surface Water dataset gridded, TIFF
    • Remote-sensing-based surface water coverage statistics at 30m resolution from 1984 to 2021. (Citation)
  • Global Long-term River Width (GLOW) shapefile
    • Landsat-based global river width dataset for 1984-2020. (Citation)
  • GloFAS-ERA5 streamflow, gridded, netCDF
    • 0.1 degree (and 0.05 degree for V4) daily time step global routed streamflow from 1979 to near-real-time, ERA5 runoff + LISFLOOD river discharge. (Citation)
  • GRFR Runoff streamflow, runoff, gridded, netCDF
    • Global Reach-level Flood Reanalysis(GRFR). We sometimes call it “Ming Pan’s runoff”. It is well-calibrated 0.05 degree VIC output at daily and 3-hrly resolution from 1980 to 2019. It includes both runoff and streamflow. (Citation)
  • LORA Runoff runoff, gridded, netCDF
    • Linear Optimal Runoff Aggregate (LORA). A global gridded runoff product available at monthly timescales, and includes time-variant uncertainty, for the period 1980–2012 on a 0.5 degree grid. (Citation)
  • Dominant River Tracing (DRT) gridded, ASCII
    • Global eight-direction flow network developed by Huan Wu, ranging from 1/16th deg to 2 deg. (Citation)
  • ICOLD Database dam
    • International Commission On Large Dams (ICOLD) provides global dam information
  • GRanD Database dam, shapefile
    • The initial version 1.1 of Global Reservoir and Dam Database (GRanD) contains 6,862 records of reservoirs and their associated dams with a cumulative storage capacity of 6,197 km3. (Citation)
  • US Army Corps Reservoir Visualizer dam
    • A website that visualizes U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Reservoir Data
  • LEGOS Water Level Database time series
    • LEGOS provides water level time series (approx. 2000-2013) for large rivers, lakes and wetlands around the world.
  • GIEMS Data inundation, gridded, netCDF
    • Global Inundation Extent from Multi-Satellites (GIEMS) is a high-resolution global inundation map at a pixel size of 15 arc-seconds (approximately 500 meter at the equator). (Citation 1, Citation 2)
  • GSIM Discharge Data streamflow, point
    • Global Streamflow dataset that combines data from different resources. (Citation)
  • continuing
    • https://public.yoda.uu.nl/geo/UU01/T7TVTQ.html
    • GRDC
    • TRMM
    • GPM https://gpm.nasa.gov/data
    • HydroSHEDS, GLWD, etc. https://wp.geog.mcgill.ca/hydrolab/data/
    • Hydro1k https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Data:HYDRO1k

Regional Data

  • USGS National Water Information System streamflow, time series, point, US
    • Where you download USGS gauge data
  • Colorado River Data dam, time series, Colorado
    • Colorado River water related information such as water level in major reservoirs
  • SMAP-HydroBlocks soil moisture, CONUS
    • It is a hyper-resolution satellite-based surface soil moisture product at 30-m resolution over the continental United States (2015-2019). (Citation)
  • R-ArcticNET streamflow, time series, point, Arctic
    • Pan-Arctic streamflow data with various time coverage
  • GridMet climatology, gridded, netCDF, CONUS
    • It is a dataset of daily high-spatial resolution (~4-km, 1/24th degree) surface meteorological data covering the contiguous US from 1979-yesterday. (Citation)
  • AKTEMP temperature, time series, point, Alaska
    • It is a cloud-based database platform for storing and accessing stream and lake temperature monitoring data across Alaska.
  • NID dam, point, US
    • National Inventory of Dams (NID) provides >90,000 dams information in the US
  • TGW climatology, gridded, netCDF, CONUS
    • Thermodynamic Global Warming Simulations (TGW) provide 40-year historical (1980-2019) as well as four 80-year future simulations (2020-2099) over the U.S. The future simulations are split into near (2020-2059) and far future (2060-2099) segments. The future scenarios were developed using a thermodynamic global warming approach where past events are replayed under a range of future warming conditions.
  • UCLA Snow Reanalysis snow, gridded, netCDF, Western US
    • Daily snow water equivalent (SWE), fractional snow-covered area (fSCA) and snow depth (SD) at 16 arc-second (~500 m) resolution from water years 1985 to 2021 over the Western US.
  • UA Snow Data snow, gridded, netCDF, CONUS
    • Daily snow water equivalent (SWE) and snow depth (SD) data at 4km resolution from water years 1981 to 2021 over the US.
  • Livneh Dataset climatology, runoff, gridded, netCDF, US
    • Daily climate forcing data as well as VIC derived runoff at 1/16 degree from 1950-2013 and later extended to 2018. (Citation)
  • UW Columbia River Basin Streamflow Data streamflow, point, time series, Columbia
    • Daily simulated streamflow 1950-2100 at CRB river gauges. Each gauge has at least two RCPs, two downscaling techniques, and two hydrological models.
  • BPA Columbia River Basin NRNI Data streamflow, point, time series, Columbia
    • Daily streamflow starting from early 20th century across CRB’s river gauge locations. They provides modified streamflow by removing dam regulation and/or irrigation depletions.
  • Continuing
    • IBT https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-01935-4

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