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Global hydrological dataset of daily streamflow data from the Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN), 1863 - 2022

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

The Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN) dataset is a global hydrological dataset containing publicly available daily flow data for 2,386 gauging stations across the globe which have natural or near-natural catchments. Metadata is also provided alongside these stations for the Full ROBIN Dataset consisting of 3,060 gauging stations. Data were quality controlled by the central ROBIN team before being added to the dataset, and two levels of data quality are applied to guide users towards appropriate the data usage. Most records have data of at least 40 years with minimal missing data with data records starting in the late 19th Century for some sites through to 2022. ROBIN represents a significant advance in global-scale, accessible streamflow data. The project was funded the UK Natural Environment Research Council Global Partnership Seedcorn Fund - NE/W004038/1 and the NC-International programme [NE/X006247/1] delivering National Capability Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3b077711-f183-42f1-bac6-c892922c81f4

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
3b077711-f183-42f1-bac6-c892922c81f4
Extent (Latitude)
90° to -90°
Extent (Longitude)
-180° to 180°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2024-05-28
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Turner, S., Hannaford, J., Barker, L.J., Suman, G., Armitage, R., Killeen, A., Griffin, A., Davies, H., Kumar, A., Dixon, H., Albuquerque, M.T.D., Almeida Ribeiro, N., Alvarez-Garreton, C., Amoussou, E., Arheimer, B., Asano, Y., Berezowski, T., Bodian, A., Boutaghane, H., Capell, R., Dakhaoui, H., Daňhelka, J., Do, H.X., Ekkawatpanit, C., El Khalki, E.M., Fleig, A.K., Fonseca, R., Giraldo-Osorio, J.D., Goula, A.B.T., Hanel, M., Hodgkins, G., Horton, S., Kan, C., Kingston, D.G., Laaha, G., Laugesen, R., Lopes, W., Mager, S., Markonis, Y., Mediero, L., Midgley, G., Murphy, C., O'Connor, P., Pedersen, A.I., Pham, H.T., Piniewski, M., Rachdane, M., Renard, B., Saidi, M.E., Schmocker-Facker, P., Stahl, K., Thyler, M., Toucher, M., Tramblay, Y., Uusikivi, J., Venegas-Cordero, N., Vissesri, S., Watson, A., Westra, S., Whitfield, P.H. (2024). Global hydrological dataset of daily streamflow data from the Reference Observatory of Basins for INternational hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN), 1863 - 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/3b077711-f183-42f1-bac6-c892922c81f4
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); Polytechnic University/CERNAS (author); University of Évora (author); Center for Climate and Resilience Research (author); University of Parakou (author); Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (author); University of Tokyo (author); Gdansk University of Technology (author); Gaston Berger University (author); Badji Mokhtar - Annaba University (author); Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (author); Université Tunis El Manar (author); Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (author); Nong Lam University – Ho Chi Minh City (author); Tohoku University (author); Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (author); Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (author); Institute of Earth Science (IES), University of Évora (author); Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (author); University of Abobo-Adjamé (author); Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (author); United States Geological Survey (author); University of Canterbury, Christchurch (author); Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (author); University of Otago, Dunedin (author); University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) (author); Bureau of Meteorology, Canberra (author); National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA) (author); University of Otago (author); Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (author); Stellenbosch University (author); Maynooth University (author); University of Danang (author); Warsaw University of Life Sciences (author); Cadi Ayyad University (author); Aix Marseille University (author); University of Freiburg (author); University of Adelaide (author); South African Environmental Observation Network (author); Research Institute for Development (IRD) (author); Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) (author); Chulalongkorn University (author); University of Saskatchewan (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng