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<dc:title>ESA River Discharge Climate Change Initiative (RD_cci):  Altimetry-based River Discharge product, v1.0</dc:title>
<dc:subject>CCI</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>River Discharge</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Altimeter</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>orthoimagery</dc:subject>
<dc:description>This dataset comprises the altimetry-based river discharge (RD-ALTI) Climate Research Data Package (CRDP), derived from nadir radar altimeter missions by the ESA CCI River Discharge precursor project (RD_cci). It provides long-term satellite river discharge (RD) time series at specified locations (defined in the "Selection of river basins" document, available at https://climate.esa.int/documents/2189/D2_CCI-Discharge-0004-RP_WP2_v1-1.pdf). River discharge (in m3/s) corresponds to the water volume passing through the river cross-section per unit of time. In this dataset, it is computed from a rating curve applied to long-term satellite altimeter water surface elevation (WSE) from https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c5f0aa806ec444b4a4209b49efc4bb65. The rating curve is obtained by fitting the relationship between in-situ discharge and altimeter WSE with a power law following a Bayesian approach.</dc:description>
<dc:type>series</dc:type>
<dc:identifier>44c930e1388f40728884fbdf7e28c109</dc:identifier>
<dc:language>eng</dc:language>
<dc:coverage>-90.0 -180.0 90.0 -180.0 90.0 180.0 -90.0 180.0 -90.0 -180.0</dc:coverage>
<dc:rights>Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users. http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/noLimitations</dc:rights>
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