kratzert
commented
1 year ago Hi Jesús,
thanks for contributing data to Caravan, much appreciated. I downloaded the data from Zenodo and had a quick look at it and here are a few things that I noticed.
- Naming of the extension: On Zenodo the dataset is named CAMELS-ES, but all extension folders are named
es(rather than e.g.camelses. No problem from our side, just something I witnessed. - No matter which extension name you pick, one thing that needs to be changed is that all gauge_ids in e.g. the attribute files and the shape files, but also the timeseries files, should always be
{extension_name}_{national_id}. In your case, these are currently just what I assume is the national station id. This is important, because these national ids are not unique across the glob and otherwise it could happen that you have the same gauge_id for a gauge in Spain and e.g. Austria. So it would be great if you could rename the time series files and also make sure that all the gauge_ids in the attribute files and shape files are renamed. Depending on your choice in the previous point, this would e.g. bees_1103.nc, instead of1103.ncas of now. - Regarding compatibility with the rest of Caravan, can you maybe remove all but the gauge_id field from the shape file? And strictly speaking, also the station shape file is not required, as this could be loaded from the
attributes_other_es.csvfile (which would also include the river name, country etc. - The name of the basin shape file does not match the pattern we usually use in Caravan. Could you maybe rename the file to
{extension}_basin_shapes.shp({extension}depends on point 1).
Let me know what you think and/or once you updated the Zenodo repository.
casadoj
Basin prefix
es
Zenodo DOI
10.5281/zenodo.8373021
Number of catchments
269
Location of catchments
Spain
For which periods are streamflow records available in your dataset?
1st October 1991 to 30th September 2020
Please list any sources of the data you contributed.
The discharge records are taken from the "Anuario de Aforos" (https://ceh.cedex.es/anuarioaforos/default.asp), a public repository of hydrological records in Spain curated by CEDEX (Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas) and supported by the gauging networks of the several water agencies in the country.
The European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) version 5.0 is part of the Copernicus Emergency Management Services (https://emergency.copernicus.eu/)
HydroATLAS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International Licence (https://www.hydrosheds.org)
ERA5-Land hourly data is publicly available in the Copernicus Climate Data Store (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-land?tab=overview)
The processing of HydroATLAS and ERA5 data was done using the Caravan GitHub repository (https://github.com/kratzert/Caravan.
License
CC BY 4.0
Additional context
The official network of gauging stations contains 1074 points. A selection has been made to remove stations with less than 8 years of data in the period 1991-2020, and those whose records show a clear alteration caused by the presence of reservoirs upstream. Unfortunately, after filtering, the distribution of catchments around the country is uneven, representing mostly the central and northern Spain. In the future I will explore the data sets from the water agencies, both to cover a larger part of the country and to explore if it would be possible to increase the temporal resolution of the time series.
In addition to the usual attributes and time series that the Caravan notebooks generate, I have added new attributes and the simulated discharge from the recently released EFAS version 5 (European Flood Awareness System).
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