Quality check of river flow data worldwide

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• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Derived variable; Discharge; stream; unspecified; Arctic; Canada; Huntington; Hallet; ArcticNet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2611858

Quality characteristics for 21586 river flow time series from 13 datasets worldwide. The 13 datasets are: the Global Runoff Database from the Global Runoff Data Center (GRDC), the Global River Discharge Data (RIVDIS; Vörösmarty et al., 1998), Surface-Water Data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), HYDAT from the Water Survey of Canada (WSC), WISKI from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Hidroweb from the Brazilian National Water Agency (ANA), National data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Spanish river flow data from the Ecological Transition Ministry (Spain), R-ArcticNet v. 4.0 from the Pan-Arctic Project Consortium (R-ArcticNet), Russian River data (NCAR-UCAR; Bodo, 2000), Chinese river flow data from the China Hydrology Data Project (CHDP; Henck et al., 2010, 2011), the European Water Archive from GRDC - EURO-FRIEND-Water (EWA), and the GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment (GAME) – Tropics dataset provided by the Royal Irrigation Department of Thailand. Quality characteristics are based on availability, outliers, homogeneity and trends: overall availability (%), longest availability (%), continuity (%), monthly availability (%), outliers ratio (%), homogeneity of annual flows (number of statistical tests agreeing), trend in annual flows, trend in one month of the year. Bodo, B. (2000) Russian River Flow Data by Bodo. Boulder CO: Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. Retrieved from http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds553.1/ Henck, A. C., Huntington, K. W., Stone, J. O., Montgomery, D. R. & Hallet, B. (2011) Spatial controls on erosion in the Three Rivers Region, southeastern Tibet and southwestern China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 303(1–2), 71–83. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.038 Henck, A. C., Montgomery, David R., Huntington, K. W. & Liang, C. (2010) Monsoon control of effective discharge, Yunnan and Tibet. Geology 38(11), 975–978. doi:10.1130/G31444.1 Vörösmarty, C. ...