Status and progress in global  lake database developments

Toptunova, Olga; Choulga, Margarita; Kurzeneva, Ekaterina

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-16-57-2019

Articles | Volume 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-16-57-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-16-57-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16

21 May 2019

| 21 May 2019

Status and progress in global lake database developments

Olga Toptunova, Margarita Choulga, and Ekaterina Kurzeneva

Data sets

dataset and technical documentation GLDB http://www.flake.igb-berlin.de/ep-data.shtml

Short summary

Lakes affect local weather and climate. This influence should be taken into account in NWP models through parameterization. For the atmospheric simulation, global coverage of lake depth data is essential. To provide such data Global Lake Database (GLDB) has been created. More than 3 thousand in-situ lake depths all over the globe have been added. However over 83 % of newly added data have not been found on global ecosystem map ECOCLIMAP2.