metadata
license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: HydroLAKES
tags:
- hydrology
- limnology
- lakes
- geospatial
task_categories:
- other
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HydroLAKES
50,000 lake polygons (of ~1.4 million globally) with attributes, validated geometries, standardized area/perimeter fields and coordinate system.
Source & Citation
Messager, M.L., Lehner, B., Grill, G., Nedeva, I., Schmitt, O. (2016). Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach. Nature Communications, 7, 13603. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13603
License
CC BY 4.0.