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Updated MERIT Hydro shapefiles for North America


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Created: Nov 10, 2022 at 8:38 p.m.
Last updated: Nov 10, 2022 at 9:34 p.m. (Metadata update)
Published date: Nov 10, 2022 at 9:34 p.m.
DOI: 10.4211/hs.ee4a497fbac2422d95b45e193c06cdc5
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Abstract

This resource contains the ESRI shapefiles used during basin delineation of the CAMELS-spat database. CAMELS-spat contains a collection of river basins in the United States and Canada that can be used for model evaluation and improvement. These shapefiles are provided here to increase reproducibility of the data set creation process.

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Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
North America
North Latitude
83.0950°
East Longitude
-52.6700°
South Latitude
7.2083°
West Longitude
-177.9975°

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Description

Uncompressed, this resource has two top-level folders: basins and rivers. These each contain an ESRI shapefile showing the location of river basins and river networks on the North American continent. Both shapefiles use the EPSG:4326 Coordinate Reference System.

Derivation

This resource is derived from shapefiles published by Lin et al. (2019; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025287). Those shapefiles were updated by Martyn Clark as part of his work on improving coastal hillslope representation in this data set.

Licensing

This resource is derived from shapefiles published by Lin et al. (2019; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025287). Those shapefiles are not accompanied by a formal license but "are made publicly available for research purposes". We have assigned a Creative Commons Attribution-NoCommerical-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) to this Hydroshare resource because this license seems closest in spirit to the intent of Lin et al. (2019).

Related Resources

The content of this resource is derived from Lin, P., Pan, M., Beck, H. E., Yang, Y., Yamazaki, D., Frasson, R., et al. (2019). Global reconstruction of naturalized river flows at 2.94 million reaches. Water Resources Research, 55, 6499–6516. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025287

Credits

Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
Global Water Futures

How to Cite

Knoben, W. J. M., M. P. Clark (2022). Updated MERIT Hydro shapefiles for North America, HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.ee4a497fbac2422d95b45e193c06cdc5

This resource is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA.

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