GRDC major river basins of the world#

grdc-major-river-basins · theme hydro · live

The major river and lake basins of the world (GRDC, 2nd revised edition), distributed through the World Bank data catalog.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier
data = esd.hydro.basins.grdc_major(aoi)

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Sources#

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world-bank (default)

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global

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zipped shapefile read in place

Where each route points#

world-bank — World Bank zip live

https://datacatalogfiles.worldbank.org/ddh-published/0041426/DR0051689/major_basins_of_the_world_0_0_0.zip

Provenance#

Licence · Open (attribution)

Cite the data as

GRDC (2020). Major River Basins of the World / Global Runoff Data Centre, 2nd rev. ext. ed. Koblenz: BfG.

Documentation

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