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A Brief Overview of the GLObal RIver Chemistry Database, GLORICH

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Over the last decade the number of regional to global scale studies of river chemical fluxes and their steering factors increased rapidly, entailing a growing demand for appropriate databases to calculate mass budgets, to calibrate models, or to test hypotheses. We present a short overview of the recently established GLObal RIver CHemistry database GLORICH, which combines an assemblage of hydrochemical data from varying sources with catchment characteristics of the sampling locations. The information provided include e.g. catchment size, lithology, soil, climate, land cover, net primary production, population density and average slope gradient. The data base comprises 1.27 million samples distributed over 17,000 sampling locations.

Source: Procedia Earth and Planetary Science

DOI: 10.1016/j.proeps.2014.08.005

Authors: Jens Hartmann, Ronny Lauerwald, Nils Moosdorf

Institutions: Universität Hamburg, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace

Language: English

Topic: Water Quality and Resources Studies

Subfield: Water Science and Technology

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Awards: G1634086166, LabEx Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL): Understand climate and anticipate future changes, G7240651115, G7376787254