Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1151-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1151-2024
Data description paper
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01 Mar 2024
Data description paper |  | 01 Mar 2024

A global dataset of the shape of drainage systems

Chuanqi He, Ci-Jian Yang, Jens M. Turowski, Richard F. Ott, Jean Braun, Hui Tang, Shadi Ghantous, Xiaoping Yuan, and Gaia Stucky de Quay

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The shape of drainage basins and rivers holds significant implications for landscape evolution processes and dynamics. We used a global 90 m resolution topography to obtain ~0.7 million drainage basins with sizes over 50 km2. Our dataset contains the spatial distribution of drainage systems and their morphological parameters, supporting fields such as geomorphology, climatology, biology, ecology, hydrology, and natural hazards.
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