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Research article
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19 Jul 2022
Research article |
| 19 Jul 2022
| 19 Jul 2022
Remotely sensed reservoir water storage dynamics (1984–2015) and the influence of climate variability and management at a global scale
Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National
University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Albert I. J. M. van Dijk
Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National
University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Hylke E. Beck
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, United States of America
Luigi J. Renzullo
Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National
University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Yoshihide Wada
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg,
Austria
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Short summary
We used satellite imagery to measure monthly reservoir water volumes for 6695 reservoirs worldwide for 1984–2015. We investigated how changing precipitation, streamflow, evaporation, and human activity affected reservoir water storage. Almost half of the reservoirs showed significant increasing or decreasing trends over the past three decades. These changes are caused, first and foremost, by changes in precipitation rather than by changes in net evaporation or dam release patterns.
We used satellite imagery to measure monthly reservoir water volumes for 6695 reservoirs...
