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  • The Extended Global Lake area, Climate, and Population Dataset (GLCP)
  • Meyer, Michael F; U.S. Geological Survey
    Brousil, Matthew R; Colorado State University
    Das, Pratyush K; Asian Institute of Technology
    Virdis, Salvatore GP; Asian Institute of Technology
    Yang, Xiao; Southern Methodist University
    Cramer, Alli N; University of Washington
    McClure, Ryan P; Carnegie Institutes for Science
    Katz, Stephen L; Sharper Informatics Solutions
    Hampton, Stephanie E; Carnegie Institution for Science
  • 2024-02-21
  • Meyer, M.F., M.R. Brousil, P.K. Das, S.G. Virdis, X. Yang, A.N. Cramer, R.P. McClure, S.L. Katz, and S.E. Hampton. 2024. The Extended Global Lake area, Climate, and Population Dataset (GLCP) ver 7. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-28).
  • A changing climate and increasing human population necessitate understanding global freshwater availability and temporal variability. To examine lake freshwater availability from local-to-global and monthly-to-decadal scales, we created the Global Lake area, Climate, and Population (GLCP) dataset, which contains annual lake surface area for 1.42 million lakes with paired annual basin-level climate and population data. Building off an existing data product infrastructure, the next generation of the GLCP includes monthly lake ice area, snow basin area, and more climate variables including specific humidity, longwave and shortwave radiation, as well as cloud cover. The new generation of the GLCP continues previous FAIR data efforts by expanding its scripting repository and maintaining unique relational keys for merging with external data products. Compared to the original version, the new GLCP contains an even richer suite of variables capable of addressing disparate analyses of lake water trends at wide spatial and temporal scales.

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