Hydro-climatic data for 74 Alpine catchments for a period before and after reservoir construction

Author: Manuela Brunner
Owner: Manuela Brunner
Last update: 23.06.2022

This dataset provides daily streamflow, precipitation, temperature, and glacier mass balance changes for 74 catchments in the Central Alps, which are influenced by reservoir regulation. 
Data are provided for a period before and a period after reservoir construction.
This dataset accompanies the manuscript by Brunner and Naveau (accepted for publication in HESS) and is needed to reproduce their results

Dataset components:

(1) Shapefile of 74 catchment boundaries: catchments.shp
The shapefile meta data contains information on: 
- catchment ID (ID, used as a reference for the data files in(2))
- Country
- Region
- Catch: catchment outlet
- River: river name
- Area: catchment area in km2
- Elev: catchment elevation in m.a.s.l.
- Glacier: glacier cover percentage []
- Constr: date of first reservoir constructed in the catchment
(2) Daily data on streamflow, precipitation, temperature, and glacier mass balance changes:
(a) Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
(b) Discharge (mm/d)
(c) YYYY: year
(d) glacier: glacier mass balance changes (per year) interpolated from annual time series derived from the simulations by Compagno et al. (2021)
(e) P: precipitation (mm/d) derived from the gridded E-OBS dataset
(f) T: temperature derived (mm/d) from the gridded E-OBS dataset

Related publications:
Brunner and Naveau (2023). Spatial variability in Alpine reservoir regulation: deriving reservoir operations from streamflow using GAMs. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
​Compagno, L., Eggs, S., Huss, M., Zekollari, H., & Farinotti, D. (2021). Brief communication: Do 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0° C matter for the future evolution of Alpine glaciers? Cryosphere, 15(6), 2593–2599. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2593-2021 
​Cornes, R. C., van der Schrier, G., van den Besselaar, E. J. M., & Jones, P. D. (2018). An ensemble version of the E-OBS temperature and precipitation data sets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(17), 9391–9409. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028200