Global system of rivers: Its role in organizing continental land mass and defining land‐to‐ocean linkages | Semantic Scholar
@article{Vrsmarty2000GlobalSO,
title={Global system of rivers: Its role in organizing continental land mass and defining land‐to‐ocean linkages},
author={Charles J. V{\"o}r{\"o}smarty and Bal{\'a}zs M. Fekete and Michel Meybeck and Richard B. Lammers},
journal={Global Biogeochemical Cycles},
year={2000},
volume={14},
pages={599 - 621},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:129463497}
}The spatial organization of the Earth's land mass is analyzed using a simulated topological network (STN‐30p) representing potential flow pathways across the entire nonglacierized surface of the globe at 30‐min (longitude × latitude) spatial resolution. We discuss a semiautomated procedure to develop this topology combining digital elevation models and manual network editing. STN‐30p was verified against several independent sources including map products and drainage basin statistics, although…