China Hydrology Data Project (Oberlin College)
Academic project digitizing historical Chinese hydrology station records - daily discharge, total suspended sediment, rainfall and evaporation measured at Chinese gauging stations through 1987 - made freely available for research.
www2.oberlin.edu
At a glance
- Region
- China (Asia)
- Coverage
- China (historical)
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Academic
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- Discharge
- Suspended sediment
- Rainfall
- Evaporation
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: Discharge
- 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.
Because it has: Rainfall
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.
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