A Monthly 30m Dataset of Lakes Larger than 1 km 2 on the Tibetan 1 Plateau from 2001 to 2025 2

Evaluation of the accuracy of SWOT satellite observations for monitoring lake water levels in the Yangtze River Basin

To evaluate the capability of the newly developed SWOT satellite for lake water level retrieval and basin-scale hydrological monitoring, this study selected 513 lakes larger than 1 km 2 in the Yangtze River Basin. SWOT L2 HR Raster data from November 2023 to May 2025 were used to extract lake water levels, and th...

Hydrological Controls and Climate–Land Surface Interactions Regulating Long‐Term Lake Area Dynamics Across the Mongolian Plateau

Lake area dynamics are sensitive indicators of hydroclimatic variability in cold‐arid regions. We reconstructed lake area changes across the Mongolian Plateau from 1990 to 2025 using Landsat imagery, JRC Global Surface Water, and HydroLAKES, and applied XGBoost and SHAP to examine associations with hydroclimatic, e...

A 1 km Monthly Multi-Timescale SPEI Dataset for Mainland China Reconstructed from Station Observations and Multi-Source Environmental Predictors

High-resolution multi-timescale SPEI data are important for drought monitoring and climate-impact studies, but long-term high-resolution datasets remain limited over large regions. This study developed and technically validated a station-supervised monthly multi-timescale SPEI dataset for mainland China from 1979 to 20...

Validating NASA POWER meteorological data for applied climatology and agricultural modeling: a multi-decadal assessment across diverse topographies in the US and Türkiye

Landsat Thermal Calibration for River Temperature Monitoring: A 25-Year Case Study of the Vistula River

Gauging stations on large rivers are too sparse to resolve spatial patterns of water temperature; satellite thermal imagery can fill this gap. We calibrated 25 years (2000–2024, May–November) of Landsat 5, 7, 8 and 9 surface temperature against in situ water temperature at three gauging stations on the lower Vistula Ri...

Long-Term Climate Trends (1981–2020) and Satellite Altimetry of the Alakol–Sasykkol Lake System (2002–2026): Implications for Sustainable Water Management

Endorheic lakes are sensitive indicators of climate variability and water-management pressure, yet their response in data-scarce Central Asian basins remains poorly quantified. This study examines long-term climate trends (1981–2020) and satellite-altimetry-based water-level dynamics (2002–2026) of the Alakol–Sasykkol...