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Water level-volume changes of African large lakes from 2003 to 2022 (WatLVoLL_Africa_100km_2003-2022)
Dataset Overview
Production for Water level-volume changes of African large lakes from 2003 to 2022 (WatLVoLL_Africa_100km_2003-2022). The data product contains lake levels and volumes changes for 29 African lakes over 100km². Statistics are output in CSV format.
Dataset Details
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Product Number: XDA19090201_009
Create Institution: ext_enOrganizationName
Created By: Chunqiao Song; Tan Chen; Shuangxiao Luo; Ye Feng
Creation Date: 2024-09-27 14:17:24
File Size: 1
Data Format: CSV
Type Of Data: text;
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Naming Convention
This product is based on the EGM2008 reference plane, and the output file format is CSV. The water level of each lake is stored as
a CSV, and the rate of change of water level and rate of change of water volume for all lakes are stored as CSVs, with the rate of change of water level in m/yr and the rate of change of water volume in Gt/yr.
Paper Citation
Shuangxiao Luo, Chunqiao Song, Linghong Ke, Pengfei Zhan, Chenyu Fan, Kai Liu, Tan Chen, Jida Wang, and Jingying Zhu. 2022.Satellite laser altimetry reveals a net water mass gain in global lakes with spatial heterogeneity in the early 21st century. Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (3):e2021GL096676.https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2021GL096676.
Ye Feng, Leiku Yang, Pengfei Zhan, Shuangxiao Luo, Tan Chen, Kai Liu, and Chunqiao Song. 2023. Synthesis of the ICESat/ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 observations to reconstruct time series of lake level. International Journal of Digital Earth 16 (1):183-209.https://doi.org/10.1 080/17538947.2023.2166134.
Lijuan Song, Chunqiao Song, Shuangxiao Luo, Tan Chen, Kai Liu, Yunlin Zhang, and Linghong Ke. 2023. Integrating ICESat-2 altimetryand machine learning to estimate the seasonal water level and storage variations of national-scale lakes in China. Remote Sensing of Environment 294:113657.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023. 113657
Data Citation
Chunqiao Song. Water level-volume changes of African large lakes from 2003 to 2022 (WatLVoLL_Africa_100km_2003-2022), Beijing:International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), 2023. DOI:10.12237/casearth.64e01505819aec27a589e7af.
Data Licence Agreement
Users of this data product shall clearly indicate the source and the authors of "Water level-volume changes of African large lakes from 2003 to 2022 (WatLVoLL_Africa_100km_2003-2022)" in all forms of their research output (including, but not limited to, published and unpublished papers/reports, theses, monographs, data products, and other academic output) generated by using this data product, and shall cite the corresponding references. The data producers shall not be liable for any loss arising from the use of this data product. The boundaries and masks used in the maps do not represent an official opinion or endorsement by the data producers.
