Dataset
ESA River Discharge Climate Change Initiative (RD_cci): River width based River Discharge product, v1.0
Abstract
This dataset comprises the river-width-based river discharge (RD-WIDTH) Climate Research Data Package (CRDP), derived from optical satellite imagery within the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) River Discharge project (RD_cci).
It provides long-term satellite river discharge (RD) time series at specified locations. River discharge (in m³/s) corresponds to the water volume passing through the river cross-section per unit of time. In this dataset, discharge is estimated from multi-mission satellite imagery river width time series using a Non-Parametric Quantile Mapping (NPQM) approach. Monte Carlo simulations are used to account for uncertainties in both discharge and river width, and the resulting non-parametric mapping provides river discharge estimates together with their associated uncertainties.
Details
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| Access rules: |
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_river_discharge_terms_and_conditions.pdf When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data were produced by the River Discharge CCI project, and supplied to CEDA for archiving as part of the CCI Open Data Portal. |
| Data Quality: |
For information on data quality see the project documentation
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| File Format: |
Data are in NetCDF and CSV format
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Process overview
| Title | Computation for the ESA River Discharge Climate Change Initiative (RD_cci): River width based River Discharge product, v1.0 |
| Abstract | Long-term satellite river discharge (RD) time series have been derived at specified locations, utilizing the methodology outlined in detail in the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document. For more information see the attached documentation. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- units: m3.s-1
- var_id: water_volume_transport_in_river_channel
- long_name: River discharge from satellite imagery width time series
- units: m3.s-1
- var_id: water_volume_transport_in_river_channel_uncertainty
- long_name: River discharge uncertainty
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- long_name: latitude
- var_id: lat
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- long_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- long_name: time
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- units: seconds
Temporal Range
1984-03-01T00:00:00
2026-01-24T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |