Monthly Time Series of Precipitation, Air Temperature, and Net Radiation for 2,673 Gaged River Basins Worldwide
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Resource Abstract:
This is the first of two datasets containing derived data necessary to reproduce the results of the associated journal article:
"On the Sensitivity of Annual Streamflow to Air Temperature." This first dataset contains basic basin characteristics of 2,673
gaged basins worldwide, along with associated monthly time series of basin-mean precipitation, air temperature, and net radiation.
The streamflow data themselves are available directly from the Global Runoff Data Centre. From the inventory of discharge
data holdings of the Global Runoff Data Centre, 2,673 stream gages were selected for which (1) at least 25 complete calendar
years of monthly data overlapped in time with available climate data; (2) 500-m-resolution basin shapefiles were available
from Global Runoff Data Centre; (3) the Global Reservoir and Dam database listed no artificial reservoirs located within the
drainage basin; and (4) mean reported discharge did not exceed either of two estimates of basin precipitation by more than
a factor of 10. Monthly precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, both precipitation and temperature
from University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, and net radiation data from NASA, all on 0.5-degree grids, were areally
averaged over the basins.
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Title Monthly Time Series of Precipitation, Air Temperature, and Net Radiation for 2,673 Gaged River Basins Worldwide
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purpose:
The purpose of the dataset is to support subsequent computations aiming to quantify the sensitivity of streamflow to air temperature
at 2,673 gages around the world and to evaluate a theory for predicting that sensitivity.