GloLakes: water storage dynamics for 27&thinsp;000 lakes globally from 1984 to present derived from satellite altimetry and optical imaging

Hou, Jiawei; Van Dijk, Albert I. J. M.; Renzullo, Luigi J.; Larraondo, Pablo R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-201-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-201-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-201-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 1

Data description paper

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11 Jan 2024

Data description paper |

| 11 Jan 2024

GloLakes: water storage dynamics for 27 000 lakes globally from 1984 to present derived from satellite altimetry and optical imaging

Jiawei Hou, Albert I. J. M. Van Dijk, Luigi J. Renzullo, and Pablo R. Larraondo

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-201-2024-supplement

Data sets

GloLakes: Global historical and near real-time lake storage dynamics from 1984-present Jiawei Hou, Albert I. J. M. Van Dijk, Luigi J. Renzullo and Pablo R. Larraondo https://doi.org/10.25914/K8ZF-6G46

Soil moisture gridded data from 1978 to present, v201912.0.0 W. Dorigo, W. Preimesberger, C. Reimer, R. Van der Schalie, A. Pasik, R. De Jeu, and C. Paulik https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/satellite-soil-moisture?tab=overview

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The GloLakes dataset provides historical and near-real-time time series of relative (i.e. storage change) and absolute (i.e. total stored volume) storage for more than 27 000 lakes worldwide using multiple sources of satellite data, including laser and radar altimetry and optical remote sensing. These data can help us understand the influence of climate variability and anthropogenic activities on water availability and system ecology over the last 4 decades.