Meteorological and geographic driving data for modelling in the Kaidu River Basin, Northwestern China, Central Asia

Meteorological data:17 Long-Term (1961-2011) Weather Stations around the Kaidu River Basin were provided, including rain, sunhours, tmax,tmean and tmin, wind speed, rhum.Shp file:Shp files of the boundary and the location of the weather stations.DEM: The HydroSHEDS void-filled digital elevation model (approximately 90 m 3 90 m resolution) of the Kaidu Basin.Landuse data: A land use/land cover (LULC) data set was created using Landsat TM/ETM1 satellite imagery by unsupervised classification followed by classification based on the interpretation of Google Earth imagery (overall accuracy 89%).Soil classification: soil map (1:1,000,000)