The Global River Discharge (RivDIS) data set contains monthly discharge measurements for 1018 stations located throughout the world. The period of record varies widely from station to station, with a mean of 21.5 years. These data were digitized from published UNESCO archives by Charles Voromarty, Balaze Fekete, and B.A. Tucker of the Complex Systems Research Center (CSRC) at the University of New Hampshire.
River discharge is typically measured through the use of a rating curve that relates local water level height to discharge. This rating curve is used to estimate discharge from the observed water level. The rating curves are periodically rechecked and recalibrated through on-site measurement of discharge and river stage.
Specific information about the original sources of the RivDIS data set are not available.
The following RivDIS resources are maintained by the ORNL DAAC:
Get RivDIS Data
Find and order data sets:
- See list of data sets and download data
- Browse RivDIS Data Holdings by selected attributes
- Retrieve RivDIS data by FTP browse
- Search RivDIS Data Set Metadata (Mercury)
Related RivDIS Links
Information related to the RivDIS Project can be found at the following links: