Global lakes and wetlands database levels 1 and 2 polygons as geojson. Development and validation of a global database of lakes. The files have been compressed using winzip and are 46 mb in total size. A new global lakes database for a remote sensing program studying climatically sensitive large lakes. It is available for download as three separate arcview layers two polygon shapefiles and one grid. Glwd global lakes and wetland database lernhard and doll, 2004, however the. R client for the global lakes and wetlands database jstaglwdr. Drawing upon a variety of existing maps, data and information, a new global lakes and. The combination of best available sources for lakes and wetlands on a global scale 1. Geographic information system gis software has been used to overlay the best available, spatiallydisaggregated global data on freshwater marsh, global lakes and wetlands database glwd coastal wetlands and brackishsaline wetlands, with the inundation zones projected for 1m slr. Peatlands play important ecological, economic and cultural roles in human wellbeing. The global lake and wetland database glwd was compiled 11 based on seven gis databases gathered from the 1990s. Although considered sensitive to climate change and anthropogenic. A new world lakes database for global hydrological modelling.
Global lakes and wetlands database glwd r client github. Development and validation of a global database of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands bernhard lehnera,b, petra do. Download scientific diagram global lakes and wetlands database glwd. Global lakes and wetlands database glwd bernhard lehner. The global lakes and wetlands databaseglwd has been created on the basis of existing maps, data and information, such as the digital chart of the world, world conservation monitoring centre wcmc and others. Glwd abbreviation stands for global lakes and wetlands database. Glwd3 may serve as an estimate of wetland extents for global hydrology and climatology models, or to. Glwd 3 may serve as an estimate of wetland extents for global hydrology and climatology models, or to identify largescale wetland distributions and important wetland complexes.
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