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Pre SWOT Hydrology Global Lake/Reservoir Surface Inland Water Area Extent V2
The Global Lake/Reservoir Surface Inland Water Extent Mask Time Series are derived from the MODIS instruments. The purpose of this dataset is to provide surface water dynamics for several hundred lakes and reservoirs throughout the globe, with a base temporal resolution of 8 days and a spatial resolution of 500 meters. With the exception of periods of low-quality input data, these time series will extend across the lifespan of the MODIS multispectral reflectance products, from roughly 2000 to present. These time series will allow us to satisfy the project goal to produce ESDRs of suitable quality to support long-term trend analysis and global water dynamics models for the longest length possible (in most cases, about 20 years, the length of the altimetry record) of key measures of surface water storages and fluxes. This product should be accessible and of direct use to both water managers and the scientific community worldwide, and will allow for improved assessment and modeling of human impact on the global water cycle. These pre SWOT data are derived from satellites to provide hydrological measurements. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will have hydrology as one of its objectives. This dataset does not have the same variables as SWOT, but does provide hydrological measurements with typical quality flagging typical of satellite data. Not only does it provide science information, it can also assist hydrological users new to satellite data with the satellite data formats and variables before SWOT launches.
3D-LAKES: A Three-Dimensional Global Lake and Reservoir Bathymetry Utilizing ICESat-2 Altimetry and Landsat Imagery
<p>This study introduces the 3D-Global Lakes (3D-LAKES) dataset, which includes the area-elevation (A-E) relationship and three-dimensional bathymetry for 510,530 global lakes and reservoirs, representing 98.9% of global surface water storage capacity. In this Zenodo, Level 1 (L1) and Level 2 (L2) A-E relationships are provided. L1 products were created using ICESat-2 and Landsat satellites, while L2 products, apply interpolation and extrapolation to L1 products, may contain errors. For detailed structure and format information, please read the "README" file included in the repository.</p> <p>Furthermore,</p> <p>You can view the A–E relationships and 3D bathymetry maps interactively through the Google Earth Engine (GEE) application. Please visit <a href="https://planet-test-projectchi.projects.earthengine.app/view/d-lakes" target="_new" rel="noreferrer">this link</a>.</p> <p>For downloading the 3D Bathymetry maps, please visit either the <strong><a href="https://code.earthengine.google.com/071edead921f56ae44f67888528f854c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Earth Engine (GEE) code</a></strong> or the <strong><a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15yRD3E06zmsm4tAF-mBz-DhHvIKNq1Lh?usp=drive_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Python version</a></strong> of the code.</p> <p>For detailed methodology and validation, see Huang (2025)*.</p> <p>Huang, C.H., Zhang, S., Shah, D. <em>et al.</em> 3D-LAKES: Three-Dimensional Global Lake and Reservoir Bathymetry from ICESat-2 Altimetry and Landsat Imagery. <em>Sci Data</em> <strong>12</strong>, 1625 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05911-y</p> <p> </p>
Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database, Version 1
The Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database contains freeze and thaw/breakup dates as well as other descriptive ice cover data for 865 lakes and rivers in the Northern Hemisphere. Of the 542 water bodies that have records longer than 19 years, 370 of them are in North America and 172 are in Eurasia. 249 lakes and rivers have records longer than 50 years, and 66 have records longer than 100 years. A few water bodies have data available prior to 1845. This database, with water bodies distributed around the Northern Hemisphere, allows for the analysis of broad spatial patterns as well as long-term temporal patterns.
Dataset for "Global dominance of seasonality in shaping lake surface extent dynamics" (in review)
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High Mountain Asia Near-Global Multi-Decadal Glacial Lake Inventory V001
This data set contains polygons of glacial lake extent on a near-global scale, averaged over five multi-year periods between 1990 and 2018.
Dataset for "Global dominance of seasonality in shaping lake surface extent dynamics" (in review)
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Deoxygenation Exacerbates Nitrous Oxide Emissions Evidenced from Global Lakes and Reservoirs
<p>This is a dataset for describing global N2O from lakes and reservoirs.</p>
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International Brain Laboratory public data
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OpenNeuro
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