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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Citation

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

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Maintenance information

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
  • opendata

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{ "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
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Distribution

Distribution

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  • 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  
 

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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.

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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

Citation

Date ( Publication )
2019-06-10
Identifier
doi: 10.1029/2019WR024873
 

Metadata

Metadata

File identifier
9357c527-3952-4083-b404-d748f67ec42c   XML
Metadata language
ger English
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Hierarchy level name
environment climate
Date stamp
2025-06-18
Metadata standard name
ISO 19139
Metadata standard version
2003/Cor.1:2006

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