Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-79-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-79-2022
Data description paper
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13 Jan 2022
Data description paper |  | 13 Jan 2022

A Landsat-derived annual inland water clarity dataset of China between 1984 and 2018

Hui Tao, Kaishan Song, Ge Liu, Qiang Wang, Zhidan Wen, Pierre-Andre Jacinthe, Xiaofeng Xu, Jia Du, Yingxin Shang, Sijia Li, Zongming Wang, Lili Lyu, Junbin Hou, Xiang Wang, Dong Liu, Kun Shi, Baohua Zhang, and Hongtao Duan

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Water clarity annual dynamics dataset across China (1990-2018) Hui Tao, Kaishan Song, Ge Liu, Qiang Wang, and Zhidan Wen https://doi.org/10.11888/Hydro.tpdc.271571

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During 1984–2018, lakes in the Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau had the clearest water (mean 3.32 ± 0.38 m), while those in the northeastern region had the lowest Secchi disk depth (SDD) (mean 0.60 ± 0.09 m). Among the 10 814 lakes with > 10 years of SDD results, 55.4 % and 3.5 % experienced significantly increasing and decreasing trends of SDD, respectively. With the exception of Inner Mongolia–Xinjiang, more than half of lakes in all the other regions exhibited a significant trend of increasing SDD.
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