Synthetic Global River Discharge Data for Satellite Altimetry Mission Orbits

A global synthetic dataset of river discharge, created to study the impact of satellite sampling on discharge characterization. The data corresponds to input and output files from a study published in Water Resources Research in 2021. It was produced by researchers including Md. Safat Sikder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the impact of different satellite orbit sampling strategies on river discharge estimates based on the synthetic data generation method.
• Testing and validating the RRR software for river discharge retrieval based on the dataset's stated purpose.
• Benchmarking algorithms for spaceborne discharge characterization using the provided synthetic river network and flow simulations.

Strengths

• Dataset is linked to a peer-reviewed publication in Water Resources Research, providing academic context.
• Versioning is documented, with a specific version (V2.1) produced to facilitate software testing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Collection Method

Synthetic generation based on global river network and RAPID flow simulations from prior research.

Geography

Global