Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4435-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4435-2022
Data description paper
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29 Sep 2022
Data description paper |  | 29 Sep 2022

Streamflow data availability in Europe: a detailed dataset of interpolated flow-duration curves

Simone Persiano, Alessio Pugliese, Alberto Aloe, Jon Olav Skøien, Attilio Castellarin, and Alberto Pistocchi

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For about 24000 river basins across Europe, this study provides a continuous representation of the streamflow regime in terms of empirical flow–duration curves (FDCs), which are key signatures of the hydrological behaviour of a catchment and are widely used for supporting decisions on water resource management as well as for assessing hydrologic change. FDCs at ungauged sites are estimated by means of a geostatistical procedure starting from data observed at about 3000 sites across Europe.
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