Physiographic maps

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• Bathymetry

  ETOPO2, a global database, with a horizontal grid spacing of 2 arc minutes (approximately 4km). Source http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html Download etopo2.nc.gz

• Lakes

  A 1 km global database. Source http://nwpi.krc.karelia.ru/flake/ Documentation http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/aladin/IMG/pdf/FULL-3.pdf Download Original database (from Kourzeneva 2010)
  GlobalLakeDepth.hdr.gz GlobalLakeDepth.dir.gz GlobalLakeStatus.hdr.gz GlobalLakeStatus.dir.gz LAKE_LTA_NEW.nc.gz (...)

• Land use

  Serie ECOCLIMAP 1 (global, 215 covers) Note : ECOCLIMAP v1.1 is also known as ecoclimats_v2 (name used in NWP applications). ECOCLIMAP v1.0 is no more used. ECOCLIMAP v1.1, a 1 km global database for land use Download ECOCLIMAP_I_GLOBAL_V1.1.hdr.gz ECOCLIMAP_I_GLOBAL_V1.1.dir.gz ECOCLIMAP (...)

• Soil texture

  FAO at 10 km (global). Source: http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/dsmw.htm Download: clay_fao.hdr.gz clay_fao.dir.gz sand_fao.hdr.gz sand_fao.dir.gz HWSD at 1 km, v1.10 (global). Source: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/External-World-soil-database/HTML/ Warning: files recently renamed. (...)

• Topography

  GTOPO30, a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). Source http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30_info Download gtopo30.hdr.gz and gtopo30.dir.gz HYDRO1K: a global topographic index was (...)