Watershed Boundaries of Global Runoff Data Centre Stations

Watershed Boundaries of approx. 7500 GRDC Stations generated on the basis of the HydroSHEDS drainage network (Lehner et al., 2008). The "Watershed Boundaries of GRDC Stations" are provided in GeoJSON format.

Citation proposal
. Watershed Boundaries of Global Runoff Data Centre Stations. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9357c527-3952-4083-b404-d748f67ec42c

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Alternate title: Watershed Boundaries of GRDC Stations

Date ( Creation ): 2025-03-06

Identifier: https://registry.gdi-de.org/id/de.bund.bfg.csw/9357c527-3952-4083-b404-d748f67ec42c

Identifier: M39610400007

Status: completed Completed

Point of contact

Federal Institute of Hydrology - GRDC (M4 )

Am Mainzer Tor 1 Koblenz 56068 Germany

+49 (0)261 1306 5224

Maintenance and update frequency: Irregular

Maintenance note: Maintained if coordinates or catchment area are updated

Keywords

Global Runoff Data Centre
GRDC
Hydrology
Watershed Boundaries
Station Catchment
Station Basin
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Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Es gelten keine Bedingungen.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: { "id": "cc-by/4.0", "name": "Creative Commons Namensnennung – 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)", "url":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "quelle": "Recommended citation: Global Runoff Data Centre (2011): Watershed Boundaries of GRDC Stations / Global Runoff Data Centre. Koblenz, Germany: Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG)." }

Metadata language: ger English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Distribution format

shapefile (inapplicable )
geojson (inapplicable )

OnLine resource: https://grdc.bafg.de/products/basin_layers/watershed_boundaries/

OnLine resource: https://grdc.bafg.de/downloads/GRDC_Watersheds_geojson.zip

OnLine resource: https://grdc.bafg.de/downloads/GRDC_Watersheds_shp.zip

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Based on HydroSHEDS drainage network (Lehner et al., 2008) Lehner, B., Verdin, K., Jarvis, A. (2008): Hydrological data and maps based on Shuttle elevation derivatives.

Description

Yamazaki D., D. Ikeshima, J. Sosa, P.D. Bates, G.H. Allen, T.M. Pavelsky

MERIT Hydro: A high-resolution global hydrography map based on latest topography datasets

Water Resources Research, vol.55, pp.5053-5073, 2019, doi: 10.1029/2019WR024873