CAMELS-BR: 897 catchments in Brazil (Sextant/Ifremer record)
CAMELS-BR: daily observed streamflow from 3,679 gauges, meteorological forcing (precipitation, evapotranspiration, temperature) for 897 selected catchments, and 65 attributes spanning topography, climate, hydrology, land cover, geology, soil and human intervention. Catalogued on the Sextant (Ifremer) geonetwork data catalogue.
sextant.ifremer.fr
At a glance
- Region
- Brazil (South America)
- Coverage
- 897 catchments (Brazil)
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Research Institute
- Last updated
- 2020
What's inside
- streamflow
- meteorological forcing
- catchment attributes
- time series
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: streamflow
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Design storms
Build rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves for drainage design.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
- 02
Ungauged basins
Combine with catchment data to estimate flow where there is no gauge.
- 03
Downscaling
Turn coarse rainfall grids into field or ward scale estimates.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
GeoNetwork CSW / records API at sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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