📈 Hydrological Modelling Data

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ERA5-Land Hourly Data from 1950 to Present

A global hourly reanalysis dataset from 1950 to the present providing meteorological forcing and land-surface variables for hydrological modelling, including precipitation, temperature, wind, radiation, evapor…

Provider Copernicus Climate Change Service

Resolution Native ERA5-Land resolution: approximately 9 kilometres on the TCo1279 reduced Gaussian grid Climate Data Store distribution grid: 0.1° × 0.1°, approximately 9–11 kilometres depending on latitude

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GLDAS Noah Land Surface Model L4 3-Hourly 0.25° V2.1

A global 0.25-degree land-surface modelling dataset providing 36 three-hourly hydrological, meteorological and energy variables, including precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, surface runoff, base…

Provider NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center

Resolution 0.25° × 0.25°, with a grid of 1,440 longitude cells by 600 latitude cells; approximately 25–28 kilometres at the equator

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Global Historical Climatology Network Daily — Version 3

A global station-based archive of quality-controlled daily precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature, snowfall, snow depth and additional meteorological observations from more than 100,000 stations across…

Provider NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Resolution Point observations from more than 100,000 meteorological stations; this is not a regular gridded dataset

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Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Applications — HDMA Global Database

A global topography-derived hydrological database containing digital elevation, flow direction, flow accumulation, slope, compound topographic index, stream networks, catchment boundaries and processing units…

Provider U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center

Resolution Approximately 3 arc-seconds, or about 90 metres at the equator, for most areas south of 60°N Approximately 7.5 arc-seconds, or about 250 metres, for most areas north of 60°N 30 arc-seconds, or approximately 1 kilometre

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HydroSHEDS Core Global Hydrological Data Layers Version 1.1

A near-global collection of hydrologically conditioned elevation, drainage-direction, flow-accumulation, upstream-area, flow-length and land-mask raster layers at resolutions from 3 arc-seconds to 6 arc-minute…

Provider HydroSHEDS

Resolution Multiple raster resolutions: 3 arc-seconds — approximately 90 metres at the equator 15 arc-seconds — approximately 500 metres at the equator 30 arc-seconds — approximately 1 kilometre at the equator 5 arc-minutes — a

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MSWX Global Multi-Source Weather

An operational global meteorological forcing dataset providing three-hourly precipitation, air temperature, humidity, surface pressure, wind and radiation at 0.1-degree resolution from 1979 to near real time,…

Provider GloH2O — Global Hydrology and Climate Data

Resolution 0.1° × 0.1°, approximately 11 kilometres at the equator Global raster dimensions: 1,800 latitude rows 3,600 longitude columns

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SoilGrids 2.0 Global Soil Property Maps

Global machine-learning soil-property maps at 250-metre resolution for six standard depth intervals from the surface to 200 centimetres, including sand, silt, clay, bulk density, coarse fragments, organic carb…

Provider ISRIC, SoilGrids, SoilGrids 2.0, global soils, soil properties, digital soil mapping, soil texture, clay, sand, silt, bulk density, coarse fragments, soil organic carbon, carbon density, carbon stock, soil pH, cation exc

Resolution 250 metres nominal grid-cell resolution

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WHOS Global Hydrological Observations and Time-Series Data

A global federated hydrological-data service providing discovery, visualisation and access to observed river discharge, water level and other hydrometeorological time series shared through national, regional a…

Provider World Meteorological Organization — Hydrological Observing System

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