Gridded Meteorological and Ancillary Data for Central European River Basins, 1980-2024

A spatially resolved gridded dataset covering five complete river basins in central Europe: upper Danube, Elbe, Oder, Rhine, and Weser. Marc Aurel Vischer compiled daily meteorological forcings and ancillary data on soil, rock, land cover, and orography from 1980 to 2024, harmonized to a regular 9 km × 9 km grid. The dataset is intended to facilitate end-to-end rainfall streamflow modeling and comparisons between different model types.

Use Cases

• Training neural network-driven hydrological models based on spatially resolved meteorological and ancillary data.
• Comparing lumped versus distributed catchment modeling approaches based on the provided gridded data.
• Conducting hydrological impact studies for central European river basins based on the 44-year daily time series.
• Combining the dataset with public river discharge data for end-to-end streamflow prediction modeling.

Strengths

• Data is fully spatially resolved and harmonized to a consistent 9 km × 9 km grid.
• Covers five major central European river basins with a daily temporal resolution from 1980 to 2024.
• Includes a variety of ancillary information on soil, rock, land cover, and orography alongside meteorological forcings.
• Accompanied by code to combine the dataset with publicly available river discharge data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the selected central European river basins.

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode, compiled by Marc Aurel Vischer.

Collection Method

Compiled meteorological forcings and ancillary information from various sources, harmonized to a regular grid.

Time Range

1980 to 2024

Freshness

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Geography

Five river basins in central Europe: upper Danube, Elbe, Oder, Rhine, and Weser.