Publication year 2024 Resource type UNCCD Publication The World Drought Atlas serves as a wake-up call, offering insights into the stark realities of drought and calling for urgency in our response. It reminds us that drought lacks regard for borders, leaving no region or country, regardless of their level of
Monitoring Water and Cryosphere in Central Asia: MODSNOW Online Platform (www.modsnow.online). Water is a vital resource for the socio-economic prosperity of Central Asia. Seasonal snow accumulation in the high mountain areas of the region is the main driver of river flow for the Amu Darya, Syr Darya, Zerafshan and other
https://caspianhouse.org/home 360° VR The goal of filming 360-degree videos is to draw attention to the retreating, drying and anthropogenic impacted parts of the Caspian Sea, as well as to create the opportunity to view these images from anywhere in the world using virtual reality glasses. 12 videos in 360°
Use Aqueduct tools to identify and evaluate water risks around the world Water risks are an urgent global challenge. Most public health crises are already driven by water, including floods, droughts and water-borne diseases. Climate change is worsening the problem by intensifying floods and drought, shifting precipitation patterns, altering water
The HydroSHEDS project was initiated in 2006 by World Wildlife Fund US with the goal to create free digital data layers in support of large-scale hydro-ecological research and applications worldwide. HydroSHEDS provides seamless hydrographic data products including catchment boundaries, river networks, and lakes. The various existing sub-datasets are consistent across
Link to web map: https://rivers.help/map Specialists from the Rivers Without Borders Foundation have been developing their own GIS model for a whole year, and today their publicly available interactive database includes about 300 existing large and medium-sized dams used for hydropower or irrigation in the Balkhash-Alakol, Chu-Talas, Syrdarya and Amudarya
CrowdWater stands for an independent and reliable data collection by citizens – Citizen Science – for modelling of floods and droughts and as a supplement to existing measurements. The method is developed scientifically by the University of Zurich such that it can be applied in remote areas and regions with low data availability.
G-REALM provides time-series of water level variations for some of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs. Currently, lakes ≥ 100km2 are included but future project phases will aim to include those in the 50-100km2 size range.
Source: USDA/FAS/OGA
GEOGloWS helps to organize the international community engaged in the hydrologic sciences, observations, and their application to forecasting and provides a forum for government-to-government collaboration, and engagement with the academic and private sectors to achieve the delivery of actionable water information
Source: GEOGloWS
The app is based on data from NASA’s Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS-2.1), which uses weather observations like temperature, humidity, and rainfall to run the Noah land surface model. This model estimates how much of the rain becomes runoff, how much evaporates, and how much infiltrates into the soil. These output variables, calculated every three hours, are aggregated into monthly averages, giving us a record of the hydrologic cycle going all the way back to January 2000.
