A dataset for reservoir-catchment characteristics for 3254 Chinese reservoirs, i.e., Res-CN

A total of 512 attributes are provied for 3254 Chinese reservoirs. --These attributes are provided at reservoir upstream catchment-level, containing 1) two types of reservoir upstream catchments (i.e., full catchment and intermediate catchment), 2) catchment topography, 3) anthropogenic activity, 4) climate, 5) land cover & use, and 6) soil & geology. -----> we also generate time series of 15 meteorological variables. ----> We also provide an extensive data set on reservoir storage anomaly (data available for 92% of the 3,254 reservoirs), water level ( 20%), --evaporation (98%)--, -- water area (99%)-- from multisource satellites -- radar/laser satellite altimeters + satellite images from Landsat + Sentinel-2. Validation_figures record all validations, time series of figures, and statistical metrics for water level, water area and storage variations. Currently, our manuscript is submitted to Earth System Science Data for review. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-422