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## Databases

### International
[Wikipedia Lists of Lakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_lakes) [:package:](https://github.com/jsta/wikilake)

[HydroLAKES](https://www.hydrosheds.org/pages/hydrolakes) [:package:](https://github.com/lawinslow/hydrolinks)

[HydroATLAS](https://www.hydrosheds.org/page/hydroatlas)

[World Lake Database](http://wldb.ilec.or.jp/)

[GloboLakes: high-resolution global limnology dataset](http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/6be871bc-9572-4345-bb9a-2c42d9d85ceb)

[Global Lakes and Wetlands Database](https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/global-lakes-and-wetlands-database) [:package:](https://github.com/jsta/glwdr) (GLWD)

[Global Lake area, Climate, and Population dataset](https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/834e2d4e8ee7eb2fa9a5a5b32d759683) (GLCP)

[Global Reservoir and Dam Database](https://doi.org/10.7927/H4HH6H08) (GranD)

[Dams, lakes and reservoirs database](http://wwdrii.sr.unh.edu/) (World Water Development Report II)

[Database for Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters](http://dahiti.dgfi.tum.de/en/) (DAHITI) [:package:](https://github.com/DHI-GRAS/dahiti)

[StreamPULSE: High frequency stream metabolism data](https://data.streampulse.org/)

[GEMS-GLORI world river discharge database](https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.804574)

[Greenhouse gas emissions from lakes and impoundments (Delsontro et al. 2018)](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5220001)

[Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database](https://nsidc.org/data/lake_river_ice/)

[Global Surface Water Dataset](https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20584) (GSW)

[Global Reservoir Surface Area Dataset](https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/DF80WG) (GRSAD)

[Global Reservoir Geometry Database](https://zenodo.org/record/1322884#.XCzl4lxKiUk) (ReGeomData)

[Near-global environmental information for freshwater ecosystems in 1km resolution](https://www.earthenv.org/streams) (EarthEnv)

[Reservoir and Lake Surface Area Timeseries](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4118463) (ReaLSAT)

[Global River Chemistry Database](https://www.geo.uni-hamburg.de/en/geologie/forschung/aquatische-geochemie/glorich.html) (GLORICH)

[Global Water Chemistry Database](https://www.geo.uni-hamburg.de/en/geologie/forschung/aquatische-geochemie/glowachem.html) (GLOWACHEM)

[Global Reservoirs and Lakes Monitor](https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/global_reservoir/) (G-REALM)

[Time series of water levels in the rivers and lakes around the world](https://www.theia-land.fr/en/hydroweb/) (Hydroweb)

[Global Georeferenced Database of Dams](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4648214.v1) (GOODD)

[Global River Widths from Landsat Database](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1269594) (GRWL)

[River and Reservoir Watch](https://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/)

[Simulated Topological Networks](https://wsag.unh.edu/Stn-30/stn-30.html) (STN)

[Lake origin/formation classifications (Sharma and Bryne. 2011)](https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL049577) See supplement(s)

[Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive](https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.887470) (GSIM)

[Geonames](http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/)

[Global River Water Quality Archive](https://doi.org/10.23673/re-273) (GRQA)

[Global Lake Level Database](https://github.com/ESIPFed/Global-Lake-Level-Database) (GLLD)

[Global database on dissolved carbon in soil solution](https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911161) (Langeveld et al. 2020)

[the Global Lakes Bathymetry Dataset](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5243309.v1) (GLOBathy)

[Georeferenced global Dams And Reservoirs](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6163412) (GeoDAR)

[The global river database of methane concentrations and fluxes](https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-346) (GRiMeDB)

[Hydrography90m](https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4525-2022)

[ASTER Global Water Bodies Database](https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/astwbdv001/) (ASTWBD)

[Global Lakes Database](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7016548) (GLAKES)

[The Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset](https://doi.org/10.18739/A2C824F9X) (BAWLD)

[The pan-Arctic catchment database](https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-541-2023) (ARCADE)

[Wetland Area and Dynamics for Methane Modeling](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5553187) (WAD2M)

[Water bodies for the tundra and boreal biomes in North America](https://doi.org/10.11888/Hydro.tpdc.271021) (WBD-NAHL)

[circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake database](https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.868349) (PeRL)

[A database of chlorophyll and water chemistry in freshwater lakes](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00648-2)

[the SWOT River Database](http://gaia.geosci.unc.edu/SWORD/) (SWORD)

[Global Dam Tracker](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02008-2) (GDAT)

[Global lake drainage topology and catchment database](https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3483-2023) (Lake-TopoCat)

[Water storage dynamics for 27 000 lakes globally](https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-201-2024) (GloLakes)

[Surface water temperature observations and ice phenology estimations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114164) (LakeTEMP)

[Global Reservoir Inventory of Lost Storage by Sedimentation](https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/W4UG8) (GRILSS)

### USA

[USA National Lakes Assessment](https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/nla) [:package:](https://github.com/jsta/nlaR) (NLA)

[USA National Eutrophication Survey](https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2017-52) [:package:](https://github.com/jsta/nesRdata) (NES)

[USA National Hydography Dataset](https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/national-hydrography-dataset) [:package:](https://github.com/jsta/nhdR) (NHD)

[USA National Inventory of Dams](https://nid.sec.usace.army.mil/#/) [:package:](https://github.com/jsta/dams) (NID)

[USA National Water Information System](https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis) [:package:](https://github.com/USGS-R/dataRetrieval) (NWIS)

[USA Geographic Names Information System](https://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/) (GNIS)

[American Rivers Dam Removal List](https://www.americanrivers.org/threats-solutions/restoring-damaged-rivers/dam-removal-map/)

[USGS Dam Removal Science Database](https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IGEC9G)

[A Reservoir Morphology Database for the Conterminous United States](https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0RQZ)

[National Water-Quality Assessment Program](http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2005/152) (NAWQA)

[The Hydro Network-Linked Data Index](https://github.com/ACWI-SSWD/nldi-services/blob/master/README.md) (NLDI)

[Dam Metrics Representing Stream Fragmentation and Flow Alteration](https://doi.org/10.5066/F7FN14C5)

[National Anthropogenic Barrier Dataset](https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/56a7f9dce4b0b28f1184dabd) (NABD)

[National Surface Water Survey](https://archive.epa.gov/emap/archive-emap/web/html/els.html) [:package:](https://github.com/jsta/nsws) (NSWS)

[Changes in anthropogenic influences on streams and rivers in the conterminous U.S. over the last 40 years](https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XW4J1J)

[Lotic Intersite Nitrogen eXperiment II (LINX II): nitrate uptake and retention in 72 streams across 8 different biomes (2003 – 2006).](https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/eac34b6c1cfb0268dd76ef68a7a90bfc)

[AquaSat: A Data Set to Enable Remote Sensing of Water Quality for Inland Waters](https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/AquaSat/8139383)

[CAMELS: Large-Sample Hydrometeorological Dataset](https://ncar.github.io/hydrology/datasets/CAMELS_timeseries)

[SPARROW: simulated streamflow, nutrient and suspended-sediment loads in the United States](https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/sparrow-mappers?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects)

[Database for hydrometeorological modeling of 14,425 North American watersheds](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12600281.v1) (HYSETS)

[Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow](https://doi.org/10.3133/70046617) (GAGES-II)

[Hydropower Infrastructure - LAkes, Reservoirs, and RIvers](https://doi.org/10.21951/HILARRI/1781642) (HILARRI)

[CAMELS with Atmospheric and Stream Water Chemistry Data](https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2022-81) (CAMELS-Chem)

[Historical reservoir operations in the contiguous United States](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5367382) (ResOpsUS)

[Benchmark dataset for lake water quality time series and vertical profiles](https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3141-2025) (LakeBeD-US)

### Canada

[Canada Hydro Features Database](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/9d96e8c9-22fe-4ad2-b5e8-94a6991b744b) (Canvec) [:package:](https://github.com/paleolimbot/rcanvec)

[National Water Data Archive](http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/) (HYDAT) [:package:](https://github.com/ropensci/tidyhydat)

[IceWatch](https://www.naturewatch.ca/icewatch/)

### China

[Reservoir dataset in China](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7664489) (Res-CN)

[High Resolution Water Quality Dataset of Chinese Lakes and Reservoirs from 2000 to 2023](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.27626286.v2)

### Europe

[European Environment Agency - Waterbase](http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/waterbase-water-quality/) (EEA)

[Water Framework Directive - Catchment Data Explorer](https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/) [:package:](https://github.com/robbriers/cde)

[European Multi Lake Survey](https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.226)

[Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12629051) (AMBER Barrier Atlas)

### UK

[UK - Water Framework Directive - Waterbodies](https://data.gov.uk/dataset/wfd-lake-waterbodies-cycle-21) (WFD)

[UK Lakes Portal](https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes)

[Environment Agency - Water Quality Archive](https://environment.data.gov.uk/water-quality/view/doc/reference)

[UK National River Flow Archive](https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/) (NRFA) [:package:](https://github.com/cvitolo/rnrfa)

### Sweden

[Water Information System Sweden](http://viss.lansstyrelsen.se/Maps.aspx)

[Swedish Lake Register](https://vattenwebb.smhi.se/svarwebb/)

[SLU - long-term monitoring of lakes](https://miljodata.slu.se/MVM/Search)

### Switzerland

[National long-term surveillance of Swiss rivers](https://doi.org/10.25678/0002A0) (NADUF)

### Netherlands

[Rijkswaterstaat ("National Waterlevels")](https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/water/waterdata-en-waterberichtgeving/waterdata)

### Regional

#### North America

[North American River Width Data Set](http://gaia.geosci.unc.edu/NARWidth/index.html#overview) (NARWidth)

#### Connecticut

[Connecticut Lake Bathymetry Contours](http://cteco.uconn.edu/guides/Lake_Bathymetry.htm)

#### Florida

[DBHYDRO](https://www.sfwmd.gov/science-data/dbhydro) [:package:](https://github.com/ropensci/dbhydroR)

#### Minnesota

[MN DNR](http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/index.html) (LakeFinder)

[Lake Bathymetric Outlines, Contours, Vegetation, and DEM](https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/water-lake-bathymetry)

#### New York

[Adirondack Lakes Survey](http://www.adirondacklakessurvey.org/historic.php) (ALS)

#### Ontario

[Provincial (Stream) Water Quality Monitoring Network](https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/provincial-stream-water-quality-monitoring-network)

#### Oregon

[Atlas of Oregon Lakes](https://oregonlakesatlas.org)

#### Wisconsin

[WI DNR](http://dnr.wi.gov/lakes)

#### Vermont

[VT DEC](https://dec.vermont.gov/watershed/lakes-ponds)

#### Eastern US

[Lake multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database](https://lagoslakes.org) (LAGOSNE) [:package:](https://github.com/cont-limno/LAGOSNE)

#### Western US

[Georeferenced Lake Nutrient Chemistry Database](https://figshare.com/articles/GLNC_Database_January_2017/4578544) (GLNC)

#### British Columbia

[BC Freshwater Atlas](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/geographic-data-services/topographic-data/freshwater) [:package:](https://github.com/poissonconsulting/fwabc)

## Models

[Advanced Lake Biogeochemistry Model](https://github.com/tanzeli1982/ALBM) (ALBM)

[AQUASIM](http://www.eawag.ch/en/department/siam/software/)

[ATS](https://github.com/amanzi/ats)

[CaMa-Flood](http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yamadai/cama-flood/)

[CE-QUAL-W2](http://www.ce.pdx.edu/w2/)

[Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code](https://www.epa.gov/exposure-assessment-models/environment-fluid-dynamics-code-efdc-download-page) (EFDC)

[Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code+](https://github.com/dsi-llc/EFDCPlus_Stable) (EFDC+)

[General Lake Model](http://aed.see.uwa.edu.au/research/models/GLM/) (GLM) [:package:](https://github.com/GLEON/GLM3r)

[Hydrologic Engineering Center's River Analysis System](https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/) (HEC-RAS)

[HYdrological Predictions for the Environment](https://sourceforge.net/projects/hype/files/) (HYPE)

[Landlab](https://github.com/landlab/landlab)

[LAKE](https://mathmod.org/lake/)

[MyLake](https://github.com/biogeochemistry/MyLake_public) [:package:](https://github.com/aemon-j/MyLakeR)

[Parflow](https://github.com/parflow/parflow)

[Precipitation Runoff Modeling System](https://www.usgs.gov/software/precipitation-runoff-modeling-system-prms) (PRMS)

[Raven Hydrological Modelling Framework](http://raven.uwaterloo.ca/Main.html) [:package:](https://github.com/CSHS-CWRA/RavenPy)

[Simstrat](https://github.com/Eawag-AppliedSystemAnalysis/Simstrat) [:package:](https://github.com/aemon-j/SimstratR)

[SPARROW](https://github.com/USGS-R/RSPARROW) [:package:](https://github.com/USGS-R/RSPARROW)

[Variable Infiltration Capacity Model](https://github.com/UW-Hydro/VIC) (VIC)

[Water Ecosystems Tool](http://projects.au.dk/wet/about-wet/) (WET, GOTM-FABM-PCLake)

[the Wetland DEM Ponding Model](https://github.com/CentreForHydrology/WDPM) (WDPM)