Catchment attributes and hydro-meteorological time series for large-sample studies across hydrologic Switzerland (CAMELS-CH)
Authors/Creators
- 1. Eawag, Switzerland
- 2. University of Bern, Switzerland
- 3. ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 4. University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 5. Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
- 6. University of Exeter, United Kingdom
- 7. WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
- 8. University of Melbourne, Australia
- 9. WSL, Switzerland
Description
This is a pre-release, while the dataset and corresponding publication is under revision.
CAMELS-CH (Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for large-sample Studies - Switzerland) is a large-sample hydro-meteorological data set for hydrological Switzerland in Central Europe that covers 331 basins within Switzerland and neighboring countries (Austria, France, Germany and Italy). CAMELS-CH comprises dynamic hydro-meteorological variables and static catchment attributes.
The data set covers 40 years of data between 1st January 1981 and 31st December 2020 for each catchment: daily time series of stream flow and water levels, of meteorological data such as precipitation and air temperature and of daily snow water equivalent data. Additionally, CAMELS-CH encompasses annual time series of land cover change and glacier evolution per catchment. The static catchment attributes comprise the following categories: location and topography, climate, hydrology, soil, hydrogeology, geology, land use, human impact and glaciers.
# Updates:
- Update version 0.3: renaming single files/entries in "Caravan_extension_CH" to start with "camelsch" as unique Caravan extension identifier
- Update version 0.2: CH extension to Caravan (https://zenodo.org/record/7540792#.ZFtShM5By70) added