Example for basinex

This is the river Elbe with one gauge at Decin. Needed files are facc.asc with the flow accumulation and fdir.asc with the flow direction. In addition, we cut out a NetCDF file containing precipitation.

Just execute the basin extractor in this directory:

basinex

Data sources

DEM related

The two DEM derivatives (fdir and facc) are based on upscaled terrain elevation data, that was collected from USGS EROS Archive—Digital Elevation—Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010), available at: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/usgs-eros-archive-digital-elevation-global-multi-resolution-terrain-elevation.

Precipitation

Sample ERA5 meteo file, available at: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=overview

Hersbach, H., Bell, B., Berrisford, P., Hirahara, S., Horányi, A., Muñoz‐Sabater, J., Nicolas, J., Peubey, C., Radu, R., Schepers, D. and Simmons, A., 2020. The ERA5 global reanalysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146(730), pp.1999-2049

Gauge

Gauge IDs are obtained from the GRDC database: https://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/Home/homepage_node.html