Hydrology, Rivers, Drainage Basins Data

HydroSHEDS --hole filled SRTM, drainage basins, and stream networks.
https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/national-hydrography/nhdplus-high-resolution
USGS NHD--National Hydrography Dataset
NHDPlus Version 2.1: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5669a79ee4b08895842a1d47, https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5b92790be4b0702d0e809fe5

Hydrography90m

Amatulli, G., Garcia Marquez, J., Sethi, T., Kiesel, J., Grigoropoulou, A., Üblacker, M., Shen, L., and Domisch, S.: Hydrography90m: A new high-resolution global hydrographic dataset, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-9, in review, 2022.

https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2022-9/

Vector and raster, download at https://public.igb-berlin.de/index.php/s/agciopgzXjWswF4

Lin, Peirong; Pan, Ming; Wood, Eric F.; Yamazaki, Dai; Allen, George H (2021): A new vector-based global river network dataset accounting for variable drainage density. Sci Data. 2021 Jan 26;8(1):28. figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5052635.v1

https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/A_new_vector-based_global_river_network_dataset_accounting_for_variable_drainage_density/5052635

Messager, M. L., Lehner, B., Cockburn, C., Lamouroux, N., Pella, H., Snelder, T., Tockner, K., Trautmann, T., Watt, C. & Datry, T. (2021). Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03565-5

https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Global_prevalence_of_non-perennial_rivers_and_streams/14633022

Rivers and drainage basins

Global subnational river borders: https://zenodo.org/record/3906567#.X1gr8nlKj8A
GRDC, WMO (must register to download data)
NHD--National Hydrologic Dataset
https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/nhdplus-national-hydrography-dataset-plus
River width from Landsat
- North American River Width Data Set (NARWidth): http://gaia.geosci.unc.edu/NARWidth/index.html Shapefile, 300 MB download uncompresses to 1.28 GB, or tiles. [Allen, G. H., Pavelsky T.M., (2015), Patterns of river width and surface area newly revealed by the satellite-derived North American River Width data set. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1002/2014GL062764]
- Global: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2018/06/27/science.aat0636.DC1?_ga=2.168226150.61222774.1581090653-893679277.1581090653, https://zenodo.org/record/1297434#.Xj2IyDFKhaQ,
River color
- River Surface Reflectance Database (RiverSR) https://zenodo.org/record/4304567#.YD7XDWhKj8B created 2020
- John R. Gardner Xiao Yang Simon N. Topp Matthew R. V. Ross Elizabeth H. Altenau Tamlin M. Pavelsky, 2020, The Color of Rivers, GRL, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088946
- https://cuahsi.shinyapps.io/RiverColor/ interactive, online display

Last revision 5/27/2022