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- Augmented Monthly Flow Rates of World Rivers (except former Soviet Union)
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Dai, A. and K.E. Trenberth, 2003: New Estimates of Continental
Discharge and Oceanic Freshwater Transport. Proceedings of the
Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in
Weather and Climate, 83rd Annual AMS Meeting, Amer. Meteor. Soc.,
Long Beach, CA, 1-18.
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This dataset contains monthly river flow rates for 4,425 locations
around the world except for the former Soviet Union. This dataset
combines the UNESCO set [https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds552.0/]
plus 3,455 gauges, thus improving spatial coverage over much of the
world with major gains in Brazil, Australia and Argentina. The "new"
gauges have not been subjected to the rigorous comparisons of the
benchmark UNESCO portion. Their locations, names, and drainage areas
have been edited, and obvious errors (e.g. egregious extremes,
replicates) removed from flow rates. Data sources and the edits are
documented.
The USGS offers a CDROM "Hydro-Climatic Data Network: Streamflow
Data Set, 1874-1988". This consists of streamflow data measured at
1659 sites throughout the US and its territories. Daily mean,
monthly mean, annual mean, minimum and maximum values of discharge
are given for each water year. Stations selected distinguish human
influences.
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