Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-669-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-669-2019
Research article
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06 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 06 Feb 2019

A global lake and reservoir volume analysis using a surface water dataset and satellite altimetry

Tim Busker, Ad de Roo, Emiliano Gelati, Christian Schwatke, Marko Adamovic, Berny Bisselink, Jean-Francois Pekel, and Andrew Cottam

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Database for Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI) C. Schwatke, D. Dettmering, W. Bosch, and F. Seitz http://dahiti.dgfi.tum.de/en/

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This paper estimates lake and reservoir volume variations over all continents from 1984 to 2015 using remote sensing alone. This study improves on previous methodologies by using the Global Surface Water dataset developed by the Joint Research Centre, which allowed for volume calculations on a global scale, a high resolution (30 m) and back to 1984 using very detailed lake area dynamics. Using 18 in situ volume time series as validation, our volume estimates showed a high accuracy.