Data of essd-2021-470

How to cite: Shen, Y., Liu, D., Jiang, L., Nielsen, K., Yin, J., Liu, J., and Bauer-Gottwein, P.: High-resolution water level and storage variation datasets for 338 reservoirs in China during 2010–2021, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 5671–5694, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5671-2022, 2022.

If you have any difficulty in downloading these datasets, please feel free to contact the first author, yjshen2020@gmail.com.  All references and acknowledgements can be found in our datasets and paper.

This is a new version for 338 reservoir in China. We provide reservoir water level from sentinel-3a, cryosat-2, sentinel-3b, saral/altika, jason-3 and icesat-2. We provide reservoir water area from landsat and sentinel-2. we provide monthly storage change.

In our dataset, you can find shapefiles for all 338 reservoirs containing all remotely-sensed datasets, and also shapefile of our collecetd 93 reservoirs with in situ data for validation. All these reservoirs' attributes such as main use and dam heights are available in reservoir attribute.xlsx.

In the "reservoir water level", we provide two modes: standard-measurement from each satellite altimetry and enhanced-measurement by fusing all satellite altimetry for a specific reservoir if available.

In the "reservoir water area". we provide monthly water area time series

In the "storage change", we provide two types of reservoir water storage.