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Lake water levels from 1992 to present derived from satellite observations

This dataset provides lake water levels for 311 selected lakes on four continents derived from satellite radar altimetry. Lake water level information is traditionally obtained via ground-based observation systems and networks that suffer from well-known inherent problems: high cost, sparse coverage (often limited to political local/national instead of geographical/hydrological boundaries), slow dissemination of data, heterogeneous temporal coverage, destruction of the stations during floods, ab

Source details

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Evidence quality: 27.5

Listed in cds public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/catalogue/v1/collections/satellite-lake-water-level
• https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-lake-water-level

Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.