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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2026-685</article-id>
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<article-title>A benchmark dataset of null-calibrated streamflow spectral-memory diagnostics for five CAMELS-family archives, with open rainfall-runoff model outputs for CAMELS-GB v2</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ren</surname>
<given-names>Lijian</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1629-4368</ext-link>
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<addr-line>School of Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China</addr-line>
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<day>04</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
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<lpage>13</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Lijian Ren</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>This article describes a reusable benchmark dataset, rather than a standalone methods paper, of streamflow spectral-memory diagnostics computed from daily discharge records in five CAMELS-family archives (CAMELS-US, CAMELS-GB v2, CAMELS-BR v1.2, CAMELS-AUS v2 and CAMELS-DK; 3,010 gauges in total). For each gauge the release provides the positive-integral autocorrelation time of discharge anomalies, local spectral-slope curves on the raw frequency axis and on the release-defined memory-normalized coordinate De =&lt;em&gt;&amp;tau;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;acf&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;em&gt;f&lt;/em&gt;, dispersion statistics with gauge- and region-cluster uncertainty, and matched stochastic reference products. For CAMELS-GB v2 it also provides the outputs of three open rainfall-runoff models and two seasonal references under a common chronological split. The De coordinate and the null-calibration ladder are operational fields and reference products defined for this release from standard signal processing and transparent simulations; they are not presented as previously validated, universal techniques. The archive-level characterization is intentionally bounded: memory scaling reduces cross-catchment spectral-curve dispersion in US, GB and BR (24.0 %, 14.7 % and 11.8 %), is weak and uncertain in AUS (7.7 %, region-cluster 95 % interval -0.7&amp;ndash;27.6 %), and shows no reduction in the lowland DK archive (-4.7 %, -20.2&amp;ndash;11.1 %). The matched references quantify how much alignment can arise from serial correlation alone. A CAMELS-GB worked reuse case, based on three independent models and 544 gauges (308 disagreement gauges), does not support spectral distance as a universal model-selection rule (median decision delta +0.124, bootstrap 95 % CI +0.085 to +0.163). The release is intended for catchment-scale spectral characterization, frequency-specific model comparison and reproducible benchmark construction; it does not establish a storage mechanism or a cross-archive ranking rule. The curated dataset is available from Zenodo at &lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22055294&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22055294&lt;/a&gt; (Ren, 2026).</p>
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