Identification

Title

High-resolution global topographic index values

Abstract

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. The topographic index is a hydrological quantity describing the propensity of the soil at landscape points to become saturated with water as a result of topographic position (i.e. not accounting for other factors such as climate that also affect soil moisture but are accounted for separately). Modern land surface models require a characterisation of the land surface hydrological regime and this parameter allows the use of the TOPMODEL hydrological model to achieve this .This Geographic Information System layer is intended for use as topographic ancillary files for the TOPMODEL routing model option within the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) land surface model. The topographic index variable here is directly comparable to the compound topographic index available from United States Geological Survey's Hydro1K at 30 sec resolution. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ce391488-1b3c-4f82-9289-4beb8b8aa7da

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ce391488-1b3c-4f82-9289-4beb8b8aa7da

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Hydrography

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-180

East bounding longitude

180

North bounding latitude

90

South bounding latitude

-90

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-01-01

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2014-11-30

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

The GA2 algorithm has been used to calculate these topographic index values, using base data layers provided by the HydroSHEDS suite of GIS layers. All files were generated using FORTRAN 90 at 15 arc-sec resolution (cells circa 450 m x 450 m at the Equator).

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title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

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explanation

Data format

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NetCDF

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Constraints related to access and use

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Limitations on public access

Superseded

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Limitations on public access

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Limitations on public access

© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Marthews, T.R., Dadson, S.J., Lehner, B., Abele, S., Gedney, N. (2014). High-resolution global topographic index values. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ce391488-1b3c-4f82-9289-4beb8b8aa7da

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email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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McGill University

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enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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organisation name

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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custodian

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enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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publisher

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email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

UK

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

web address

https://eidc.ac.uk/

name: EIDC website

description: The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences.

function: information

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-04-18T16:41:54

Metadata language