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FullHydro data
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Global hydrography products computed by the FullHydro tools, served at
https://data.fullhydro.org and browsable at https://fullhydro.org/downloads/.

Layout
  <source grid>/<tool>/<version>/<files>

  source grid   the flow-direction data a product is computed on
                  merit-hydro-90m     MERIT Hydro, 3 arc-seconds, global
                  hydrosheds-v2-30m   HydroSHEDS v2, 1 arc-second, released continents
  tool          the FullHydro tool that computed the product
                  flowdivide   basins, regions and basin groups
                  flowtopo     the depth-first order of every basin
                  flowmorph    upstream shape attributes of every pixel
  version       the release of that product (v1.0, v1.1, ...)

Every folder has a README. The version README lists its files with sizes and
SHA-256 checksums, what changed from the previous version, and which code
version produced it.

FullBasin is the name of the combined dataset: the FlowDivide, FlowTopo and
FlowMorph layers on one source grid.

How to cite    see the README of each source grid and tool
License        by layer, given in the README of each tool:
                 FlowDivide and FlowMorph products   CC BY 4.0
                 FlowTopo on MERIT Hydro             ODbL 1.0 (MERIT Hydro terms)
                 FlowTopo on HydroSHEDS v2           CC BY 4.0
Contact        Lulu Jiang, https://lulujiang.me

Reading without downloading
  Every file is served with HTTP range requests, so GDAL, rasterio, pandas
  and DuckDB can read a window or a table straight off the network:

    import rasterio
    url = "https://data.fullhydro.org/merit-hydro-90m/flowdivide/v1.1/bsn_global_90m.tif"
    with rasterio.open(url) as src:
        basin_id = next(src.sample([(-60.0, -3.0)]))[0]

    import pandas as pd
    bat = pd.read_csv("https://data.fullhydro.org/hydrosheds-v2-30m/flowdivide/v1.0/"
                      "south-america/bat_south-america_30m_ge1km2.csv.gz")

Every release

Source gridToolVersionFilesSizeReleasedStatus
merit-hydro-90mflowdividev1.08673 MB2026-05 (with the ESSD submission)files here
merit-hydro-90mflowdividev1.115902 MB2026-09-20, files rebuilt 2026-09-28files here
merit-hydro-90mflowtopov1.02026-05 (with the ESSD submission)on Zenodo
merit-hydro-90mflowtopov1.1in preparationin preparation
merit-hydro-90mflowmorphv1.02026-05 (with the ESSD submission)on Zenodo
merit-hydro-90mflowmorphv1.1in preparationin preparation
hydrosheds-v2-30mflowdividev1.0462.0 GB2026-09-23, basin tables updated 2026-09-28files here
hydrosheds-v2-30mflowtopo—not yet computed
hydrosheds-v2-30mflowmorph—not yet computed

Folders

NameSizeUpdatedDescription
merit-hydro-90m/1.6 GBMERIT Hydro · 90 m · 23 files
hydrosheds-v2-30m/2.0 GBHydroSHEDS v2 · 30 m · 46 files
README.txt2.0 kBwhat this folder holds

The same folder on the data server: https://data.fullhydro.org/

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