Global Lake Evaporation Volume (GLEV) dataset

Data available at: Zenodo

Data description: This global dataset contains the monthly surface area and evaporation volumes for 1,427,687 lakes and reservoirs from Jan 1985 to Dec 2018.

Related publication: Zhao, G., Y. Li, L. Zhou, H. Gao (2022), Evaporative water loss of 1.42 million global lakes, Nature Communications, 13, 3686. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31125-6

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Note: Newer version from 1984 to 2020 is available upon request.

Global reservoir surface area dataset (GRSAD)

Data available at: Texas Data Repository (v2), Google Drive (v3)

Data description: This dataset contains the time series of area values for 7246 global reservoirs (with an integrated capacity of 6810 km3) from 1984 to 2020 (updated). It was based on the dataset by Pekel et al. (2016), with the contaminations from clouds, cloud shadows, and terrain shadows corrected automatically.

Related publication: Zhao, G. and H. Gao (2018), Automatic correction of contaminated images for assessment of reservoir surface area dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078343

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