Caravan
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The open global large-sample hydrology dataset — thousands of catchments with forcing, attributes and streamflow.
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rnrfa
StableR client for the UK National River Flow Archive — catalogue, gauged daily flows and catchment metadata.
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- GPL-3
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- R
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
install.packages("rnrfa")About rnrfa
rnrfa wraps the UK National River Flow Archive's API in R: search the station catalogue by location or river, retrieve gauged daily flows and catchment properties, and get everything back as tidy objects ready for FEH-adjacent statistics and trend work.
UK flood hydrology leans heavily on NRFA records, and rnrfa makes their retrieval scriptable and reproducible — the difference between a one-off spreadsheet and an auditable analysis when the review letter arrives.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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