Copernicus Early Warning Data Store: GloFAS River Discharge
Global Flood Awareness System historical river discharge and related data from the Copernicus Early Warning Data Store, openly downloadable gridded streamflow produced by forcing LISFLOOD with ECMWF reanalysis.
ewds.climate.copernicus.eu
At a glance
- Region
- EU (Global)
- Coverage
- Global (incl. Europe)
- Access
- Free
- Category
- International
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- river discharge
- streamflow reanalysis
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: river discharge
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
Because it has: streamflow reanalysis
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
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
EWDS download + CDS-API style programmatic access
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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