ReservoirsFlow
HydroLAKES
Global lakes and reservoirs larger than 10 ha. 1.4 million lake polygons with depth and volume estimates.
Shorelines of all lakes and reservoirs of at least 10 ha, with estimated mean depth, volume, residence time and the pour point linking each lake to the HydroRIVERS network.
- Source
- HydroSHEDS (WWF and McGill University)
- Resolution
- Polygons
- Data type
- Polygons
- Time span
- Static (v1.0)
- Temporal
- Static
- Access type
- Direct download (external)
- Formats
- Shapefile, File geodatabase
- Coverage
- Global (-180, -90, 180, 90)
- Licence
- HydroSHEDS licence (free, attribution required)
- Provider page
- www.hydrosheds.org/products/hydrolakes
Cite as. Messager, M. L., et al. (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
Access
linkDownloads
curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/hydrolakes/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
-H "Accept: application/json"import requests
r = requests.get("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/hydrolakes/links",
params={"bbox": "-75,-20,-50,5"})
for group in r.json()["groups"]:
for link in group["links"]:
print(link["url"])const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/hydrolakes/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record
