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The HydroLAKES database provides a seamless high-resolution map of the world’s
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lakes and their main characteristics in support of a broad range of global-scale
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assessments and analyses, with a focus on improving users’ ability to model the
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important roles that lakes play in the global environment. The current version
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contains the polygons for 1.5 million individual lakes.
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HydroLAKES aims to be as comprehensive and consistent as possible at a global
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scale and contains both freshwater and saline lakes, including the Caspian Sea,
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as well as human-made reservoirs and regulated lakes. HydroLAKES achieves
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virtually full completion for lakes above 35 ha in area and close to full
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completion for lakes between 10 and 35 ha.
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HydroLAKES is publicly available for download at
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http://www.hydrosheds.org and is free for scientific, educational, and
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other uses. The data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
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4.0 International License (see section 4). By downloading and using the data
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the user agrees to the terms and conditions of this license. The copyright
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© of HydroLAKES is held by the authors, 2016, all rights reserved.
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Citations and acknowledgements of the HydroLAKES database should be made as
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follows:
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Messager, M.L., Lehner, B., Grill, G., Nedeva, I., Schmitt, O. (2016):
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Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a
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geo-statistical approach.
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Nature Communications: 13603. doi: 10.1038/ncomms13603.
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Data is available at www.hydrosheds.org
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