This data set provides geoinformation data, natural and anthropogenic characteristics of 1386 catchments across Germany as part of the QUADICA data set.
The attributes include information on topography, land cover, lithology, soils, climate, hydrology, population density and nutrient sources and heterogeneity. The calculated catchment attributes base on various publicly available and published resources referenced in the metadata of this repository. This repository combines the two existing CCDB repositories for the German catchments (Ebeling, 2021: https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.0fc1b5b1be4a475aacfd9545e72e6839; Ebeling & Dupas, 2021: https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.c7d4df3ba74647f0aa83ae92be2e294b).
The provided geoinformation includes the delineated catchments, stations and the data used for delineation.
The data set is decribed in detail in a corresponding paper "Water quality, discharge and catchment attributes for large-sample studies in Germany - QUADICA" by Ebeling et al. (https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-6).

This repository includes:

1.) Data table with catchment attributes
2.) Metadata with the description of each catchment attribute and references to original publications and data resources.
3.) GIS-data:
- Shapefile of delineated catchment polygons
- Shapefile of stations.
- Shapefile of modified station locations consistent with the flow accumulation raster using a 100m snapping distance.
- Shapefile of modified river network after manual adaptations used for burning into DEM
- Raster of DEM 100m
- Raster of flow direction used for catchment delineation
- Raster of flow accumulation
4.) Readme for further explanation of the included GIS data

Water quality and quantity data, as well as meteorological and N surplus time series are available in the "QUADICA - water quality, discharge and catchment attributes for large-sample studies in Germany" repository (https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.0ec5f43e43c349ff818a8d57699c0fe1). All repositories use the same unique identifier OBJECTID for each water quality station.

Note: the station locations (stations.shp) do not always fall within the delineated catchments as the catchment outlets were adapted (stations_mod.shp) according the stream network and the topographic flow accumulation grid.

Conditions: Please, reference both the original data publisher and this repository/corresponding paper Ebeling et al. for credits, when using the provided data. Note that the provided data were created with greatest care, but we cannot guarantee correctness of the data.