Articles | Volume 21, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5293-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5293-2017
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20 Oct 2017
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The CAMELS data set: catchment attributes and meteorology for large-sample studies

Nans Addor, Andrew J. Newman, Naoki Mizukami, and Martyn P. Clark

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (21 Aug 2017) by Fuqiang Tian
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We introduce a data set describing the landscape of 671 catchments in the contiguous USA: we synthesized various data sources to characterize the topography, climate, streamflow, land cover, soil, and geology of each catchment. This extends the daily time series of meteorological forcing and discharge provided by an earlier study. The diversity of these catchments will help to improve our understanding and modeling of how the interplay between catchment attributes shapes hydrological processes.