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Description

The Global Monthly River Discharge Data Set (RivDIS) contains monthly averaged discharge measurements for 1,018 stations located throughout the world from 1807-1991. The period of record varies widely from station to station with a mean of 21.5 years. The data are derived from the published UNESCO archives for river discharge, and checked against information obtained from the Global Runoff Center in Koblenz, Germany through the U.S. National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Product Summary

Platforms
STREAMFLOW STATION
Instruments
STREAM GAUGES
Spatial Extent
N: 72.12 S: -47.35 E: 176.73 W: -178.5
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1807-01-01 to 1991-09-30
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2756230785-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Discharge/Flow

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Vorosmarty, C. J., Fekete, B. M., & Tucker, B. A. (1998). Global River Discharge, 1807-1991, V[ersion]. 1.1 (RivDIS) (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/199 Date Accessed: 2025-10-21

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Climate evolution in the Mediterranean Sea from an ocean circulation model
Interannual changes of the summer circulation and hydrology in the East China Sea: A modeling study from 1981 to 2015
An observing system experiment framework for the tropical Indian Ocean salinity: A case study using a constellation of three satellites
The use of GRDC gauging stations for calibrating large-scale hydrological models
Introduction to Ocean Circulation and Modeling
Understanding the entropy-based morphological variability and energy expenditure mechanism of a large braided river system
Past and future trends of Egypt's water consumption and its sources
Long-term mean river discharge estimation with multi-source grid-based global datasets
Drivers of the decadal variability of the North Ionian Gyre upper layer circulation during 1910-2010: a regional modelling study
Simulation of near-bottom water warming in the Laptev Sea
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