Caravan CAMELS-CL

Caravan is an open community dataset of meteorological forcing data, catchment attributes, and discharge data for catchments around the world. Additionally, Caravan provides code to derive meteorological forcing data and catchment attributes in the cloud, making it easy for anyone to extend Caravan to new catchments. The vision of Caravan is to provide the foundation for a truly global open source community resource that will grow over time.

The Caravan dataset that was released together with the paper. Since Version 1.6, the dataset is published in two different Zenodo repositories, depending on the filetype of the timeseries data.

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10.63253/zv3vwih1
Kratzert, F., Nearing, G., Addor, N., Erickson, T., Gauch, M., Gilon, O., Gudmundsson, L., Hassidim, A., Klotz, D., Nevo, S., & others. (2023). Caravan—A global community dataset for large-sample hydrology. Scientific Data, 10(1), 61.
Published: 2025-07-11 | Publisher: UNESCO

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DOI https://doi.org/10.63253/zv3vwih1
Resource type Spatial data set
Date of creation 2025-07-11
Date of last revision 2025-07-11
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Metadata identifier Caravan-CAMELS-CL
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Name of the dataset creator (Legacy) Kratzert, F., Nearing, G., Addor, N., Erickson, T., Gauch, M., Gilon, O., Gudmundsson, L., Hassidim, A., Klotz, D., Nevo, S., & others
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Identifier of the dataset creator (Legacy) Caravan
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