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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- river water level report index (DMC Sri Lanka) · water level & rainfall report index · flood warning report index (e.g. Maha Oya, Deduru Oya) · links to source PDF reports (url_pdf)
- Coverage llm-inferred
- Sri Lanka (inferred from lk_dmc prefix and dmc.gov.lk source URLs) · 2025-06-10 to 2026-10-15 (date_str range shown in dataset viewer)
- Resolution llm-inferred
- Report-level: each row is one timestamped bulletin (time_str e.g. 09:30, 23:50); no station-level or gridded resolution stated
- Update frequency llm-inferred
- Irregular; several reports on some dates (e.g. six on 2025-09-27 in the sample rows); no cadence stated
- Formats docs-verified
- parquet
- Access llm-inferred
- Public Hugging Face dataset; no auth or licence stated in ENTRY or DOCS
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Event-date lookup: find DMC water level and rainfall reports for a flood event in a Sri Lankan river basin (e.g. Deduru Oya, Maha Oya) · Flood warning timeline assembly for a post-event review, ordered by date and time_str · Index of gauge bulletins linked to source PDFs for an overseas flood risk benchmarking study
- Audience llm-inferred
- flood consultants · hydrologists · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Index of PDF report links: the schema has no numeric water level or rainfall columns, so values must be read from the linked PDFs · Sri Lanka data; does not cover UK catchments despite ENTRY regions 'Global' · Single train split of 888 rows, under 1K in size; no per-station or gridded fields · Source PDFs are hosted on dmc.gov.lk; links may move or break (maintenance risk) · No licence stated; reuse terms for the DMC material need checking · ENTRY description is generic and categories are empty
- Licence
- Unknown — check provider terms
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Verified 2026-10-15 via HF API: exists; 1070 downloads/30d, 0 likes.
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: manual-2026-10-15 (Hugging Face datasets)