FlowClimate
GloFAS River Discharge Reanalysis
Global Flood Awareness System (Copernicus Emergency Management Service). Daily modelled river discharge on a 0.05° grid since 1979.
River discharge simulated by the LISFLOOD model forced with ERA5 meteorology. It fills gaps where no gauge exists and is widely used for flood frequency and trend analysis at continental scale.
- Source
- Copernicus Programme (European Union), European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- Resolution
- 0.05° (about 5 km)
- Data type
- Raster
- Time span
- 1979–present
- Temporal
- Daily
- Access type
- API (external) · Copernicus Early Warning Data Store account
- Formats
- GRIB2, NetCDF
- Coverage
- Global land (-180, -60, 180, 90)
- Licence
- Copernicus licence (free, attribution required)
- Provider page
- ewds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/cems-glofas-historical
Cite as. Harrigan, S., et al. (2020). GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979–present. Earth System Science Data, 12, 2043–2060. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2043-2020
Access
linkcems-glofas-historical in the Early Warning Data Store
https://ewds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/cems-glofas-historical
curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/glofas-reanalysis/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
-H "Accept: application/json"import cdsapi # pip install cdsapi
c = cdsapi.Client(url="https://ewds.climate.copernicus.eu/api", key="YOUR_KEY")
c.retrieve("cems-glofas-historical", {
"system_version": ["version_4_0"],
"hydrological_model": ["lisflood"],
"product_type": ["consolidated"],
"variable": ["river_discharge_in_the_last_24_hours"],
"hyear": ["2020"],
"hmonth": ["01"],
"hday": ["01", "02", "03"],
"data_format": "netcdf",
"area": [5, -75, -20, -50],
}, "glofas_2020.nc")const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/glofas-reanalysis/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record
