Global floodplains

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Maximum extent of the 200-year floodplains

Details

Geomorphological deliniation of global historical floodplains. This dataset was derived with topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital terrain model.

Subdatasets

extent | Mask of occurence of 200-year floodplains
content description
value_range 0…1

masDMT query

# data call without specifying subdataset and resolution
list_data("GFPLAIN")

# data call for specific subdataset 
list_data("GFPLAIN/extent")

# data call to subdataset with a specific resolution
list_data("GFPLAIN/extent/300m")

References

(bibtex)

[1] Nardi, Annis, Di Baldassarre, Vivoni, and Grimaldi (2019)