Auxiliary Material for Paper 2008GC002356


Land2Sea database of river drainage basin sizes, annual water discharges, and suspended sediment fluxes


Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Also at Laboratoire d’Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale, Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, CNES, UPS, IRD, CNRS, Toulouse, France


Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B. (2009), Land2Sea database of river drainage basin sizes, annual water discharges, and suspended sediment fluxes, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q06014, doi:10.1029/2008GC002356.


Introduction:

The Land2Sea data set (Data Set S1) contains data on drainage basins sizes, annual water discharge (runoff) and suspended sediment loads for up to 1527 rivers draining into the ocean as well as the Aral and Caspian Seas.  Individual data, referenced to their sources, and "best estimates" are listed.  Note that lines 927-974 (large-scale [Graham et al., 1999, 2000] drainage region number 9) of the data table contain data for smaller islands of Oceania.  These values refer to the entire island, not individual river basins on these islands.

1. 2008gc002356-ds01.txt
Data Set S1. Land2Sea.TAB  Drainage basin sizes, annual water discharges (runoff) and suspended sediment fluxes.
1.1. Column "RIVER", name(s) of river. Variations in spelling are indicated in parentheses.
1.2. Column "ID", numeric number (1 to 19) of the large-scale drainage regions as defined by Graham et al. [1999, 2000].
1.3. Column "COUNTRY", name of country/countries where river drains into the ocean/inland sea.
1.4. Column "Ad", square kilometers, best estimates of drainage basin area, usually the median area estimate. Subscript "d" refers to the fact that these estimates are based on empirical data, not models.
1.5. Colums "REF", number of reference listed in the reference list below. Reference refers to data in the column to the right, indicated by a ">" sign. Multiple references for a single estimate indicate that the respective estimate is listed in more than one source.
1.6. Columns "A", square kilomaters, individual data on drainage basin size.
1.7. Column "Sd", million metric tons per year, best estimates of annual suspended sediment fluxes, usually the median or the pre-dam flux estimate. Subscript "d" refers to the fact that these estimates are based on empirical data.
1.8. Columns "S", million metric tons per year, individual data on annual suspended sediment flux.
1.9. Columns "Qd", cubic kilometers per year, best estimates of annual water discharges (runoff), usually the median of all individual estimates unless pre-human or pre-dam estimates are available. Subscript "d" refers to the fact that these estimates are based on empirical data.
1.10. Columns "Q", cubic kilometers per year, individual data on annual water discharge (runoff).

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