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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3847-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3847-2021
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06 Aug 2021
Data description article |  | 06 Aug 2021

CAMELS-AUS: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 222 catchments in Australia

Keirnan J. A. Fowler, Suwash Chandra Acharya, Nans Addor, Chihchung Chou, and Murray C. Peel

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This paper presents the Australian edition of the Catchment Attributes and Meteorology for Large-sample Studies (CAMELS) series of datasets. CAMELS-AUS comprises data for 222 unregulated catchments with long-term monitoring, combining hydrometeorological time series (streamflow and 18 climatic variables) with 134 attributes related to geology, soil, topography, land cover, anthropogenic influence and hydroclimatology. It is freely downloadable from https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.921850.
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