CCDB - catchment characteristics data base Germany

This repository provides geoinformation data, natural and anthropogenic characteristics of 1386 catchments across Germany.
The characteristics include information on topography, land cover, lithology, soils, climate, hydrology, population density and nutrient sources and heterogeneity.
The calculated catchment characteristics base on various publicly available and published resources referenced in the metadata of this repository.
The data from this repository were created for the study Ebeling et al. (2021).

This repository includes:

1.) Data table with catchment characteristics
2.) Metadata with the description of each catchment characteristic and references to original publications and data resources.
3.) Shapefile with delineated catchment polygons
4.) Shapefile with stations.

Note:
- water quality metrics are provided in another, linked repository (https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.9b4deeca259b4f7398ce72121b4e2979). Both repositories use the same unique identifier OBJECTID for each water quality station.
- the stations do not always fall within the delineated catchments as the catchment outlets were adapted according the stream network and the topographic flow accumulation.

Reference:
Ebeling, P., Kumar, R., Weber, M., Knoll, L., Fleckenstein, J. H., & Musolff, A. (2021). Archetypes and Controls of Riverine Nutrient Export Across German Catchments. Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR028134. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028134

Conditions: Please, reference both the original data publisher and this repository for correct acknowledgements, when using the provided data.