Dataset files corresponding to : Enhancing Continental-Scale River Discharge Estimates with Wide-Swath Satellite Data Assimilation

Corresponding submitted paper :

This dataset corresponds to all the input and output files that were used in the study reported in:

Oubanas, H., David, C., H., Collins, E., Wade, J., Emery, C., Allen, G., H., Cerbelaud, A., Yang, Z.-L., and Gierach, M. Enhancing Continental-Scale River Discharge Estimates with Wide-Swath Satellite Data Assimilation. (Submitted to WRR). 

When utilizing any of the files in this dataset, please ensure that you cite both the referenced article and the dataset provided here.

Input datasets

This dataset was developed with contributions from and built upon the following datasets:

MERIT-Basins (version 1.0) derived from MERIT-Hydro (version 0.7) available under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. https://www.reachhydro.org/home/params/merit-basins

GLDAS VIC Land Surface Model L4 monthly 1.0 x 1.0 degree (V2.0) available under a CC0 license. https://science.nasa.gov/spd-41/. DOI: 10.5067/ZRIHVF29X43C

GLDAS Noah Land Surface Model L4 monthly 1.0 x 1.0 degree (V2.0) available under a CC0 license. https://science.nasa.gov/spd-41/. DOI: 10.5067/QN80TO7ZHFJZ

GLDAS Catchment Land Surface Model L4 monthly 1.0 x 1.0 degree (V2.0) available under a CC0 license. https://science.nasa.gov/spd-41/. DOI: 10.5067/SGSL3LNKGJWW

Files included in this version

All CSV files corresponding to the hydrography of the pfaf_level_74 region of MERIT-Hydro v0.7 Basins v1.0:

k_pfaf_74_nrm.csv

rapid_catchment_pfaf_74.csv

rapid_connect_pfaf_74.csv

riv_bas_id_pfaf_74_topo.csv

x_pfaf_74_nrm.csv

rapid_coupling_pfaf_74_GLDAS.csv

sort_pfaf_74_topo.csv

xfac_pfaf_74_0.1.zip

All netCDF4 files with combined daily lateral inflows, converted from 3-hourly data (based on the GLDAS data above), as well as the corresponding error covariance matrix, corresponding to the pfaf_level_74 before and after bias correction:

m3_riv_pfaf_74_20000101_20091231_GLDAS_3H_utc_err_R771_D.zip

m3_riv_pfaf_74_20000101_20091231_GLDAS_3H_utc_err_R771_D_BC_insituCAL.zip

m3_riv_pfaf_74_20000101_20091231_GLDAS_3H_utc_err_R771_D_BC_wideswath.zip

Daily discharge observation and MERIT reach IDs files of gauges in CSV formats : 

obs_tot_id_2000-01_2009-12_pfaf_74.csv

Qobs_pfaf_74_2000_2009_insitu.csv

Daily discharge observation files for 80% of gauges corresponding to the calibration dataset (CAL) in CSV formats : 

obs_use_id_2000-01_2009-12_pfaf_74_CAL.csv

Qobs_pfaf_74_2000_2009_insitu_CAL.csv

Daily discharge observation files for synthetic wide-swath discharge at the CALVAL orbit, in CSV formats : 

obs_use_id_2000-01_2009-12_wide-swath.csv

Qobs_pfaf_74_2000_2009_wide-swath.csv

NetCDF4 files with daily simulated corrected/uncorrected open loop and analysis discharge, using Kalman Filter data assilimation of the calibration in-situ gauges:

Qout_pfaf_74_GLDAS_D_2000-01_2009-12_OL.zip

Qout_pfaf_74_GLDAS_D_2000-01_2009-12_OL_BC_insituCAL.zip

Qout_pfaf_74_GLDAS_D_2000-01_2009-12_A_BC_insituCAL.zip

NetCDF4 files with daily simulated corrected open loop and analysis discharge, using Kalman Filter data assilimation of SWOT-like discharge (with and witout the application of bias correction) :

Qout_pfaf_74_GLDAS_D_2000-01_2009-12_OL_BC_wideswath.zip

Qout_pfaf_74_GLDAS_D_2000-01_2009-12_A_BC_wideswath.zip

Qout_pfaf_74_GLDAS_D_2000-01_2009-12_A_wideswath.zip