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FullBasin

Based on HydroSHEDS v2 (Lehner et al., 2022), the 1 arc-second flow directions, about 30 m at the equator.

The basin mask and the region masks of FullBasin, computed on HydroSHEDS v2 at 30 m, one continent at a time. Every land pixel is assigned to a basin; whole basins are grouped into regions that fit in memory, in four different partitions, and every later step works one region at a time. Tables carry the 30 m numbers; the maps draw the same masks, simplified. Licence CC BY 4.0.

Where this stands

Step 0 of the FullBasin release, at 30 m. The 90 m collection goes on to a per-pixel upstream index and sixteen upstream attributes; at 30 m those are not computed yet. What is here is the division of North America and South America into basins and regions, complete, with the tables that describe every basin above 1 km² and every region of the four partitions. HydroSHEDS v2 has released the Americas; the other continents follow when it does.

Resolution
1 arcsec, about 30 m; maps simplified
North America
424,800 × 277,200 pixels; 30,077,037 basins, 105,581 of them above 1 km² in the table; regions: level 3 (48), 160 deg² (106), 80 deg² (201), 40 deg² (404)
South America
219,600 × 259,200 pixels; 7,383,055 basins, 38,510 of them above 1 km² in the table; regions: level 3 (33), 160 deg² (59), 80 deg² (99), 40 deg² (213)
Layers
basin mask · region masks · basin table · region tables · simplified polygons
Licence
CC BY 4.0
The steps

What is in the release

Step 0Basin and region mask

The basin mask: every basin numbered by area, basin 1 the largest. The region masks: four partitions of the same basins, the HydroBASINS level-3 units and three capacity partitions of 160, 80 and 40 square degrees. Map on the left, the released tables on the right, with their own columns; a basin's own region is its level-3 one. The continent is chosen on the page.

Steps 1–3Where does a pixel drain to · what drains into it · what is it like upstream

The per-pixel upstream index and the upstream attributes of the 90 m collection, not yet computed at 30 m.

Every file, both continents rasters at 30 m · tables · simplified vectors and tiles · licence CC BY 4.0
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