Living Handbook CAMELS-DE Showcase (NFDI4Earth, Germany)
NFDI4Earth Living Handbook showcase documenting the CAMELS-DE German hydrometeorological dataset, its FAIR data-publication workflow, structure and access to daily discharge and catchment attributes for German catchments.
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At a glance
- Region
- Germany (Europe)
- Coverage
- 1555-1582 German catchments
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Research
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- streamflow
- river discharge
- catchment attributes
- meteorological forcing
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
Model calibration
Calibrate and test catchment models against observed flow.
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
Automatic QC
Flag gauge errors, shifts and gaps before they reach a report.
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- CAMELS-CH Reproducibility Guide and Dataset (Switzerland)Europe | Free
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