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Boundary Data of the Koshi River Basin


ZHANG Yili1,2WU Xue1,2GAO Jungang3LI Bingyuan1
1 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,CAS,Beijing 100101,China2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China3 Texas A & M University,Texas 76502,USA

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2022.10.03.V1

Published:Oct. 2022

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Key Words:

Koshi River Basin,boundary,Mount Xixabangma,Mount Qomolangma,Pumqu,Yairuzangbo,Xizang

Abstract:

Koshi River Basin refers to the catchment area of Koshi River and its tributaries. Koshi River originates from the Dasuopu Glacier on the north slope of Xixabangma in the central Himalayas. The Koshi River Basin is located between 25°20′45″N and 29°08′23″N, 85°01′25″E and 88°56′59″E, across three countries: China, Nepal and India. The Koshi River Basin has a total area of 87,723.17 km². The basin has a largest elevation drop in the world from Mt. Qomolangma 8848.86 m to the lowest only 33 m above sea level, where the elevation drop reaches to 8815 m within the basin. The boundary data of the basin is developed based on ASTER-DEM 30 m and Google Earth images. The dataset includes the boundary data both the Koshi River Basin and its subregions. The dataset is archived in both .kmz and .shp formats, and consists of 30 data files with data size of 22.7 MB (Compressed into three files with 9.61 MB).Browse

Foundation Item:

Ministry of Science and Technology of P. R. China (2019QZKK0603); Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA20040201); National Nature Sciences Foundation of China (41371120, 41761144081)

Data Citation:

ZHANG Yili, WU Xue, GAO Jungang, LI Bingyuan. Boundary Data of the Koshi River Basin[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2022.10.03.V1.

ZHANG Yili, WU Xue, GAO Jungang, et al. Boundary data of the Koshi River basin [J]. Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery, 2022, 6(4): 656–658.

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0Datapaper_KoshiRiverBasin&sub.pdf1387.00kbDownLoad
1 KoshiRiverBasin&subshp.rar 5594.09KB
2 KoshiRiverBasin.kmz 1906.10KB
3 KoshiRiverBasin_sub.kmz 2348.54KB
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