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CAMELS (US)

Catchment Attributes and Meteorology for Large-sample Studies. 671 minimally disturbed US catchments.

Daily streamflow, three sets of meteorological forcing (Daymet, Maurer, NLDAS) and a set of topographic, climatic, soil, vegetation and geological attributes. The benchmark for large-sample and machine-learning hydrology.

Source
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Resolution
Catchment (lumped)
Data type
Catchment time series
Time span
1980–2014
Temporal
Daily
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
Text, Shapefile
Coverage
Conterminous United States (-125, 24, -66, 50)
Licence
See provider terms
Provider page
gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d629001/

Cite as. Addor, N., Newman, A. J., Mizukami, N., Clark, M. P. (2017). The CAMELS data set. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21, 5293–5313. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5293-2017

Access

linkDataset page on the NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d629001/

curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/camels-us/links?bbox=-96.5,36,-94.5,38" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

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