Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially distributed analysis (CAMELS-SPAT): Streamflow observations, forcing data and geospatial data for hydrologic studies across North America

Knoben, Wouter J. M.

https://ror.org/03yjb2x39

University of Calgary

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8301-3787

Keshavarz, Kasra

https://ror.org/03yjb2x39

University of Calgary

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7093-3928

Torres-Rojas, Laura

https://ror.org/00hx57361

Princeton University

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7319-2355

Thébault, Cyril

https://ror.org/03yjb2x39

University of Calgary

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4259-0497

Chaney, Nathaniel W.

https://ror.org/00py81415

Duke University

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7120-1713

Pietroniro, Alain

https://ror.org/03yjb2x39

University of Calgary

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5792-9177

Clark, Martyn P.

https://ror.org/03yjb2x39

University of Calgary

2025-03-11T15:20:13Z

2025-03-11T15:20:13Z

2025-03-11

https://doi.org/10.20383/103.01216

https://www.frdr-dfdr.ca/repo/dataset/fef15147-940a-4a7d-86c3-373ec7d67ec4

This resource contains the CAMELS-SPAT data set. CAMELS-SPAT provides data that can support hydrologic modeling and analysis for 1426 streamflow measurement stations located across the United States and Canada.

The area upstream of each station has been divided into various subbasins. The provided data include: (1) shapefiles outlining the location of each basin and its subbasins, (2) streamflow observations at daily and hourly resolution at the outlet of each basin, (3) meteorological data from 4 different data sets (RDRS, EM-Earth, ERA5, Daymet), at their native gridded resolution as well as averaged to the basin and subbasin level, (4) geospatial data from 11 different data at their native gridded resolution, and (5) statistical summaries (i.e. catchment attributes) calculated from the streamflow, meteorological and geospatial data at the basin and subbasin level.

Data set structure is described in the README found in this repository. Data set development is described in Knoben et al (to be submitted). When using the CAMELS-SPAT data, please follow the attribution guidelines provided in Section 6 in this paper (briefly, individual attribution of any data set included in CAMELS-SPAT is requested if this data is used). BibTeX entries for the individual data sources aggregated in CAMELS-SPAT are provided in the citation.bib file found in this repository.

Reference:
Knoben, W. J. M., Keshavarz, K., Torres-Rojas, L., Thébault, C., Chaney, N. W., Pietroniro, A. & Clark, M. P. (to be submitted). Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially distributed analysis (CAMELS-SPAT): Streamflow
observations, forcing data and geospatial data for hydrologic studies across North America.

Federated Research Data Repository / dépôt fédéré de données de recherche

This dataset is made available under a custom license. Some of the files are available under variety of CC licenses, while others are either open or available under the Public domain, Open Government License, Copernicus Data License, and Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Server End-Use License. 
Please see the LICENSE.txt for the full terms of use and data_citation.bib for data references in standard bibtex format.

large-sample hydrology

meteorological data

streamflow data

geospatial data

North America

Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially distributed analysis (CAMELS-SPAT): Streamflow observations, forcing data and geospatial data for hydrologic studies across North America

f163c1b3-9c88-42f6-a7bb-5839ed6c4063

/1/published/publication_1211/

2025

Dataset

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00973-0

https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3803

https://doi.org/10.20383/102.0547

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4917-2021

https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025287

https://doi.org/10.5065/D6MW2F4D

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3047/

https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/0c121878-ac23-46f5-95df-eb9960753375

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/water-overview/quantity/monitoring/survey/data-products-services/reference-hydrometric-basin-network.html

https://nwis.waterservices.usgs.gov/docs/dv-service/daily-values-service-details/

https://nwis.waterservices.usgs.gov/docs/instantaneous-values/instantaneous-values-details/

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/water-overview/quantity/monitoring/survey/data-products-services/national-archive-hydat.html

https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/services/links_e.html

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112165

https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD15A2H.061

https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1868

https://doi.org/10.5067/COMMUNITY/LGRIP/LGRIP30.001

https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac46ec

https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13603

https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024873

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-217-2021

https://doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000526

https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL059856

https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5086

26.9512499999999946 -142.2745833333333394 69.3579166666666680 -52.8079166666666566

North America;-;-;Canada

North America;-;-;United States

https://ror.org/02z5nhe81

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NA22NWS4320003

RDF1050799

Earth and related environmental sciences

Hydrology

Hydrology, not elsewhere classified

Sciences de la Terre et sciences de l'environnement connexes

Hydrologie

Hydrologie, non classé ailleurs