The Global River Discharge (RivDIS) data set contains monthly discharge measurements for 1018 stations located throughout the world. The period of record varies widely from station to station, with a mean of 21.5 years. The data were digitized from published UNESCO river archives by Charles Vorosmarty, Balazs Fekete, and B. A. Tucker of the Complex Systems Research Center (CSRC) at the University of New Hampshire.

See the RIVDIS Campaign Document.

Further your exploration of the RivDIS Project using the following on-line resources:

• RivDIS Data Set Documents
• RivDIS Bibliography

Find and order data sets:

• See list of data sets
• Browse by attributes

Download data sets directly:

• FTP site

Search for related data:

• Mercury search system

The overall characteristics and availability of this data collection are summarized below.

• Spatial: gauging stations located on major rivers throughout the world
• Temporal: station-specific, ranging from 1807 to 1991
• Data Themes: river discharge
• Project Status: final
• Data Availability: The data are available as a single file containing all stations or as separate files for individual stations. Plots and tables summarizing individual station data are available and may be viewed on-line. The station data are organized by country, river, and station.