RRR input and output files corresponding to "Global patterns in river water storage dependent on residence time"

Corresponding peer-reviewed publication This dataset corresponds to all the RRR input and output files that were used in the study reported in: Collins, E. L., C. H. David, R. Riggs, G. H. Allen, T. M. Pavelsky, P. Lin, M. Pan, D. Yamazaki, R. K. Meentemeyer, and G. M. Sanchez (2024), Global patterns in river water storage dependent on residence time. When making use of any of the files in this dataset, please cite both the aforementioned article and the dataset herein. Input datasets The dataset herein benefited from and was built upon other datasets: MERIT-Basins (version 1.0) derived from MERIT-Hydro (version 0.7) available under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. https://www.reachhydro.org/home/params/merit-basins GLDAS VIC Land Surface Model L4 monthly 1.0 x 1.0 degree (V2.0) available under a CC0 license. https://science.nasa.gov/spd-41/. DOI: 10.5067/ZRIHVF29X43C GLDAS Noah Land Surface Model L4 monthly 1.0 x 1.0 degree (V2.0) available under a CC0 license. https://science.nasa.gov/spd-41/. DOI: 10.5067/QN80TO7ZHFJZ GLDAS Catchment Land Surface Model L4 monthly 1.0 x 1.0 degree (V2.0) available under a CC0 license. https://science.nasa.gov/spd-41/. DOI: 10.5067/SGSL3LNKGJWW Known bugs and limitations in this dataset or the associated manuscript In the original files for MERIT-Basins (version 1.0) derived from MERIT-Hydro (version 0.7), as obtained from the pfaf_level_02 zip files, two river reaches do not have a corresponding catchment: COMID=31000001 and COMID=61000003. These two river reaches were removed from our analysis, hence bringing the total number of river reaches used from 2,938,143 to 2,938,141, the same value as the total number of catchments. In the original files for MERIT-Basins (version 1.0) derived from MERIT-Hydro (version 0.7), as obtained from the pfaf_level_02 zip files, the attribute table for the river reach with COMID=67072432 contains only four upstream reaches (COMID=64072433, COMID=64072735, COMID=64073772, and COMID=64073786), while the reach actually has five upstream reaches on the map (those above and COMID=64073793). This was modified herein because all connectivity in this dataset was created by associating upstream and downstream nodes rather than using the attribute table. Our monthly dataset of river gauges with 95% daily data availability for 1980–2009 and with average discharge greater than or equal to 100 m3/s contains 1,148 stations. After mapping gauges to the MERIT Hydro river network using a joint criteria of 1) w