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Spatially Resolved Meteorological and Ancillary Data in Central Europe for Rainfall Streamflow Modeling

arXiv:2506.03819 - [arXiv,PDF]
Authors
  • Name
    Marc Aurel Vischer
  • Name
    Noelia Otero
  • Name
    Jackie Ma
  • Affiliation
    Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Applied Machine Learning Group, 10587 Berlin, Germany
We present a dataset for rainfall streamflow modeling that is fully spatially resolved with the aim of taking neural network-driven hydrological modeling beyond lumped catchments. To this end, we compiled data covering five river basins in central Europe: upper Danube, Elbe, Oder, Rhine, and Weser. The dataset contains meteorological forcings, as well as ancillary information on soil, rock, land cover, and orography. The data is harmonized to a regular 9km times 9km grid and contains daily values that span from October 1981 to September 2011. We also provide code to further combine our dataset with publicly available river discharge data for end-to-end rainfall streamflow modeling.