Global surface water history

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Historical metrics on Surface water dynamics

Details

This dataset provides historical metrics on the global behavior of surface water measured between 1984 and 2020. The original data, provided at a 30-m resolution, was aggregagted up to a 300-m through averaging.

Subdatasets

maxExtent | Maximum recorded extent (%)
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value_range 0…100
occurrence | Intra and inter-annual water cover instability (%)
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value_range 0…100
recurrence | Inter-annual water return frequency (%)
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value_range 0…100

masDMT query

# data call without specifying subdataset and resolution
list_data("GSW_history")

# data call for specific subdataset 
list_data("GSW_history/maxExtent")

# data call to subdataset with a specific resolution
list_data("GSW_history/maxExtent/300m")

References

(bibtex)

[1] Pekel, Cottam, Gorelick et al. (2016)