HydroPenIndia: A catalogue of streamflow metrics, meteorological time series and catchment attributes of Peninsular India

HydroPenIndia, a catalogue of streamflow metrics, hydro-meteorological time series and landscape attributes of 204 catchments of Peninsular India is introduced. This catalogue consists of daily hydro-meteorological time series (rainfall, soil moisture, potential evapotranspiration, actual evapotranspiration, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, longwave radiation, shortwave radiation, wind speed and humidity) for a period of 36 years from 1980-2015. The time series of 26 streamflow metrics, 13 topographic metrics, 12 climate indices, 15 hydrologic signatures, 8 land cover descriptors, 6 geologic characteristics, 6 soil characteristics (see table 8) and 13 human intervention indices are also included in this dataset. HydroPenIndia is an initiative to encourage hydrologists to advance knowledge of hydrological processes by contributing to fundamental research questions on Indian catchments. Free availability of the dataset will provide access to global users to represent India in large-sample hydrology studies. HydroPenIndia is derived from multiple databases to help researchers start their research without wasting time on collecting and processing datasets. This catalogue will motivate researchers to solve pertinent issues related to water management, quantification and risk assessment of hydrologic extremes, unravelling regional scale hydrologic functioning and climate change impact assessment over Peninsular India.