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SUBMITTER: Nardi F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6335616 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nardi F F Annis A A Di Baldassarre G G Vivoni E R ER Grimaldi S S
Scientific data 20190115
Identifying floodplain boundaries is of paramount importance for earth, environmental and socioeconomic studies addressing riverine risk and resource management. However, to date, a global floodplain delineation using a homogeneous procedure has not been constructed. In this paper, we present the first, comprehensive, high-resolution, gridded dataset of Earth's floodplains at 250-m resolution (GFPLAIN250m). We use the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital terrain model and set of terra ...[more]