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GloRiC Global River Classification

River reach types from HydroRIVERS. Hydrologic, physio-climatic and geomorphic river classes.

Every HydroRIVERS reach assigned to a class from its hydrology (discharge and flow variability), physio-climatic setting and geomorphology, for comparing and stratifying rivers worldwide. A Canadian version is published alongside.

Source
HydroSHEDS (WWF and McGill University), McGill University
Resolution
Lines (HydroRIVERS reaches)
Data type
Lines
Time span
Static (v1.0)
Temporal
Static
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
Shapefile, File geodatabase
Coverage
Global land (-180, -56, 180, 84)
Licence
HydroSHEDS licence (free, attribution required)
Provider page
www.hydrosheds.org/products/gloric

Cite as. Ouellet Dallaire, C., Lehner, B., Sayre, R., Thieme, M. (2019). A multidisciplinary framework to derive global river reach classifications at high spatial resolution. Environmental Research Letters, 14, 024003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad8e9

Access

filesGloRiC v1.0 downloads

curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/gloric/links.txt?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  | xargs -n 1 curl -fLO

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record