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Lake-TopoCat: a global lake drainage topology and catchment database
Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
George H. Allen
Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Yongwei Sheng
Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dai Yamazaki
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Chunqiao Song
Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing (UCASNJ), Nanjing, China
Meng Ding
Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
Jean-François Crétaux
Laboratoire d'Études en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), Toulouse, France
Tamlin M. Pavelsky
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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We introduce Lake-TopoCat to reveal detailed lake hydrography information. It contains the location of lake outlets, the boundary of lake catchments, and a wide suite of attributes that depict detailed lake drainage relationships. It was constructed using lake boundaries from a global lake dataset, with the help of high-resolution hydrography data. This database may facilitate a variety of applications including water quality, agriculture and fisheries, and integrated lake–river modeling.
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