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Development and validation of a global database of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands
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The Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD) as mentioned in this paper was created by combining the best available sources for lakes and wetlands on a global scale and the application of Geographic Information System (GIS) functionality enabled the generation of a database which focuses in three coordinated levels on (1) large lakes and reservoirs, (2) smaller water bodies, and (3) wetlands.About:
This article is published in Journal of Hydrology.The article was published on 2004-08-20. It has received 1938 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water storage & Wetland.read more
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High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes
TL;DR: Using three million Landsat satellite images, this globally consistent, validated data set shows that impacts of climate change and climate oscillations on surface water occurrence can be measured and that evidence can be gathered to show how surface water is altered by human activities.
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Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate
Lars J. Tranvik,John A. Downing,James B. Cotner,Steven Loiselle,Robert G. Striegl,Thomas J. Ballatore,Peter J. Dillon,Kerri Finlay,Kenneth Fortino,Lesley B. Knoll,Pirkko Kortelainen,Tiitt Kutser,Soren H. H. Larsen,Isabelle Laurion,Dina M. Leech,S. Leigh McCallister,Diane M. McKnight,John M. Melack,Erin P. Overholt,Jason A. Porter,Yves T. Prairie,William H. Renwick,Fábio Roland,Bradford Sherman,David W. Schindler,Sebastian Sobek,Alain Tremblay,Michael J. Vanni,Antoine M. Verschoor,Eddie von Wachenfeldt,Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer +30 more
TL;DR: The role of lakes in carbon cycling and global climate, examine the mechanisms influencing carbon pools and transformations in lakes, and discuss how the metabolism of carbon in the inland waters is likely to change in response to climate.
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Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research
David P. Roy,Michael A. Wulder,Thomas R. Loveland,Curtis E. Woodcock,Richard G. Allen,Martha C. Anderson,Dennis L. Helder,James R. Irons,Daniel M. Johnson,Robert E. Kennedy,Ted Scambos,Crystal B. Schaaf,John R. Schott,Yongwei Sheng,Eric Vermote,Alan Belward,Robert Bindschadler,Warren B. Cohen,Feng Gao,James D. Hipple,Patrick Hostert,Justin L. Huntington,Christopher O. Justice,Ayse Kilic,V. Kovalskyy,Zhongping Lee,Leo Lymburner,Jeffrey G. Masek,Joel McCorkel,Yanmin Shuai,Ricardo Trezza,James E. Vogelmann,Randolph H. Wynne,Zhe Zhu +33 more
TL;DR: Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave, and thermal infrared as mentioned in this paper.
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Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters
Peter A. Raymond,Jens Hartmann,Ronny Lauerwald,Ronny Lauerwald,Sebastian Sobek,Cory P. McDonald,Mark Hoover,David Butman,David Butman,Robert G. Striegl,Emilio Mayorga,Christoph Humborg,Pirkko Kortelainen,Hans H. Dürr,Michel Meybeck,Philippe Ciais,Peter L. Guth +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report regional variations in global inland water surface area, dissolved CO2 and gas transfer velocity, and obtain global CO2 evasion rates of 1.8(-0.25) and 0.52 Pg C yr(-1) from lakes and reservoirs, where the upper and lower limits are respectively the 5th and 95th confidence interval percentiles.
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The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments
John A. Downing,Yves T. Prairie,Jonathan J. Cole,Carlos M. Duarte,Lars J. Tranvik,Robert G. Striegl,William H. McDowell,Pirkko Kortelainen,Nina F. Caraco,John M. Melack,Jack J. Middelburg +10 more
TL;DR: This article used new data sources, enhanced spatial resolution, and new analytical approaches to provide new estimates of the global abundance of surface-water bodies and showed that the global extent of natural lakes is twice as large as previously known.
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Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems
TL;DR: The Ontogeny of Inland Aquatic Ecosystmes: Understanding is Essential for the Future References Appendix Index as discussed by the authors The ontogeny is essential for the future.
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A land use and land cover classification system for use with remote sensor data
TL;DR: The framework of a national land use and land cover classification system is presented for use with remote sensor data and uses the features of existing widely used classification systems that are amenable to data derived from re-mote sensing sources.
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Northern Peatlands: Role in the Carbon Cycle and Probable Responses to Climatic Warming.
TL;DR: Satellite-monitoring of the abundance of open water in the peatlands of the West Siberian Plain and the Hudson/James Bay Lowland is suggested as a likely method of detecting early effects of climatic warming upon boreal and subarctic peatland environments.
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Development of a global land cover characteristics database and igbp discover from 1 km avhrr data
Thomas R. Loveland,Bradley C. Reed,Jesslyn F. Brown,Donald O. Ohlen,Zhiliang Zhu,Limin Yang,James W. Merchant +6 more
TL;DR: The IGBP DISCover global land cover product as mentioned in this paper is an integral component of the Global Land Cover database, which provides a unique view of the broad patterns of the biogeographical and ecoclimatic diversity of the global land surface and presents a detailed interpretation of the extent of human development.