Water residence time and Damköhler number for DOC cycling in global watersheds

The relative capacity for watersheds to eliminate or export reactive constituents has important implications on aquatic ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry. Removal efficiency depends on factors that affect either the reactivity or advection of a constituent within river networks. In this dataset, we characterized instream water residence time and Damköhler number (Da) for dissolved organic carbon (DOC) uptake in global watersheds.