Features of Italian large dams  and their upstream catchments

Evangelista, Giulia; Mazzoglio, Paola; Ganora, Daniele; Pianigiani, Francesca; Claps, Pierluigi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1407-2025

Articles | Volume 17, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1407-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1407-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 4

Data description paper

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08 Apr 2025

Data description paper |

| 08 Apr 2025

Features of Italian large dams and their upstream catchments

Giulia Evangelista, Paola Mazzoglio, Daniele Ganora, Francesca Pianigiani, and Pierluigi Claps

Data sets

Italian Large Dams Giulia Evangelista et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12818297

Italian Large Dams Giulia Evangelista et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14698223

Short summary

This paper presents the first comprehensive dataset of 528 large dams in Italy. It contains structural characteristics of the dams, such as coordinates, reservoir surface areas and volumes, together with a range of geomorphological, climatological, extreme rainfall, land cover and soil-related attributes of their upstream catchments.