NASA’s MODIS Global Water Reservoir product
This product provides area, elevation, storage, evaporation rate, and evaporation volume data for 164 global reservoirs. It includes 151 man-made reservoirs (2,672 km^3) and 13 regulated natural lakes (23,801 km^3). The product is available at both an 8-day and a monthly temporal resolution; however, the evaporation rate and volumetric evaporation parameters are only available in the monthly product. The total storage capacity of the 151 man-made reservoirs represents 45.82% of the global capacity (in its category) according to the Global Reservoir and Dam Database (GRanD).
A high-resolution bathymetry dataset for global reservoirs
An approach was presented to generate reservoir bathymetry by combining satellite altimetry and imagery data. We utilized multiple satellite altimetry datasets (ICESat, G-REALM, and Hydroweb) in combination with Landsat-based surface water datasets, such as SWO from GSW and monthly water area from GRSAD, to develop a consistent high-resolution 3-D bathymetry dataset for global reservoirs.
Integrating a reservoir regulation scheme into DHSVM
In this study, a multi-purpose reservoir module with predefined complex operational rules was integrated into the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM). Conditional operating rules, which are designed to reduce flood risk and enhance water supply reliability, were adopted in this module.