Data underlying the publication: Comparing Global Violations of Environmentally Critical Groundwater Discharge Thresholds

Summary

We conducted a global comparison of three methods of estimating environmentally critical flow over the historic period 1960-2010 to evaluate the influence of including groundwater contributions to streamflow in global environmental flow assessments. This methodological study uses modelled groundwater discharge and streamflow data from natural and human-impacted runs to calculate environmental flow thresholds and violations of these thresholds. The data provided here has been processed from the monthly, gridded, simulated output to river basin scales. The analyses were performed using R, and thus the data included here is meant to be assessed in the same manner.