Table 1 Data categories and descriptions.
Categories | Scale | Descriptions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
DEM | 1Â km | Digital Elevation Model | Geospatial Data Cloud (http://www.gscloud.cn/) |
Soil | 1:1,000,000 | Soil types and distribution | National Cryosphere Desert Data Center (http://www.ncdc.ac.cn/) |
Land Use | 30 m | China’s National Land Use and Cover Change | Chinese Academy of Sciences (https://english.cas.cn/) |
NDVI | 2021–2023, 250 m | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index for Extracting Vegetation Coverage | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (https://www.nasa.gov/), United States Geological Survey (https://www.usgs.gov/) |
Meteorology | 1 km | Rainfall at approximately 500 stations in the Yellow River Basin | China Meteorological Data Service Center (https://data.cma.cn/) |
Socioeconomic | 2021–2023, yearly | Urban and rural population, livestock and poultry output, using cubic spline interpolation to fill in a small amount of missing data | China Rural Statistical Yearbook, China Statistical Yearbook, China Urban Statistical Yearbook, Statistical Bulletin |
Runoff | 2021–2023, monthly | Runoff in TNH, XHY, BGYL, SHHK, LM, TG, XY, SK in nine hydrographic station | The Yellow River Network (http://61.163.88.227:8006/hwsq.aspx) |
Water quality | 2021–2023, daily | Averages of TN and TP concentrations in nine hydrographic station | Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China (https://www.mee.gov.cn/) |
Administrative Divisions | 2021–2023 | Nine provinces, cities, and counties with three-level administrative divisions | National Geomatics Center of China |
