GRDC-Caravan: extending Caravan with data from the Global Runoff Data Centre

Färber, Claudia; Plessow, Henning; Mischel, Simon A.; Kratzert, Frederik; Addor, Nans; Shalev, Guy; Looser, Ulrich

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4613-2025

Articles | Volume 17, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4613-2025

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4613-2025

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

Articles | Volume 17, issue 9

Data description paper

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19 Sep 2025

Data description paper |

| 19 Sep 2025

GRDC-Caravan: extending Caravan with data from the Global Runoff Data Centre

Claudia Färber, Henning Plessow, Simon A. Mischel, Frederik Kratzert, Nans Addor, Guy Shalev, and Ulrich Looser

Data sets

GRDC-Caravan: extending the original dataset with data from the Global Runoff Data Centre Claudia Färber et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15349031

Model code and software

Caravan - A global community dataset for large-sample hydrology Frederik Kratzert https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15529786

GRDC Flow Tools GRDC https://github.com/bafg-bund/GRDCFlowTools

Short summary

Large-sample datasets are essential in hydrological science to support modelling studies and advance process understanding. Caravan is a community initiative to create a large-sample hydrology dataset of meteorological forcing data, catchment attributes and discharge data for catchments around the world. This dataset is a subset of hydrological discharge data and station-based watersheds from the Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC), which are covered by an open data policy.