GRILSS: opening the gateway to global reservoir sedimentation data curation
<p>Reservoir sedimentation poses a significant challenge to freshwater management, leading to declining storage capacity and inefficient reservoir operations for various purposes. However, trustworthy and independently verifiable information on declining storage capacity or sedimentation rates...
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| description | <p>Reservoir sedimentation poses a significant challenge to freshwater management, leading to declining storage capacity and inefficient reservoir operations for various purposes. However, trustworthy and independently verifiable information on declining storage capacity or sedimentation rates around the world is sparse and suffers from inconsistent metadata and curation to allow global-scale archiving and analyses. The Global Reservoir Inventory of Lost Storage by Sedimentation (GRILSS) dataset addresses this challenge by providing organized, well-curated, and open-source data on sedimentation rates and capacity loss for 1013 reservoirs in 75 major river basins across 54 countries. This publicly accessible dataset captures the complexities of reservoir sedimentation, influenced by regional factors such as climate, topography, and land use. By curating the information from numerous sources with disparate formats in a homogenized data structure, GRILSS serves as an invaluable resource for water managers, policymakers, and researchers for improved sediment management strategies. The open-source nature of GRILLS promotes collaboration and contributions from the global community to grow the dataset. By providing essential reference data on sedimentation to understand the global challenge of reservoir sedimentation, the GRILLS dataset represents a gateway for the global community to share sedimentation and storage loss data for sustainable operation of world's reservoirs for future generations. The dataset is publicly available at OSFHome (<a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/W4UG8">https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/W4UG8</a>, Minocha and Hossain, 2025).</p> |
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| spelling | doaj-art-67b6aad0ee3a4cfe905f8775af1fd3192025-08-20T02:19:19ZengCopernicus PublicationsEarth System Science Data1866-35081866-35162025-04-01171743175910.5194/essd-17-1743-2025GRILSS: opening the gateway to global reservoir sedimentation data curationS. Minocha0F. Hossain1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, USADepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA<p>Reservoir sedimentation poses a significant challenge to freshwater management, leading to declining storage capacity and inefficient reservoir operations for various purposes. However, trustworthy and independently verifiable information on declining storage capacity or sedimentation rates around the world is sparse and suffers from inconsistent metadata and curation to allow global-scale archiving and analyses. The Global Reservoir Inventory of Lost Storage by Sedimentation (GRILSS) dataset addresses this challenge by providing organized, well-curated, and open-source data on sedimentation rates and capacity loss for 1013 reservoirs in 75 major river basins across 54 countries. This publicly accessible dataset captures the complexities of reservoir sedimentation, influenced by regional factors such as climate, topography, and land use. By curating the information from numerous sources with disparate formats in a homogenized data structure, GRILSS serves as an invaluable resource for water managers, policymakers, and researchers for improved sediment management strategies. The open-source nature of GRILLS promotes collaboration and contributions from the global community to grow the dataset. By providing essential reference data on sedimentation to understand the global challenge of reservoir sedimentation, the GRILLS dataset represents a gateway for the global community to share sedimentation and storage loss data for sustainable operation of world's reservoirs for future generations. The dataset is publicly available at OSFHome (<a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/W4UG8">https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/W4UG8</a>, Minocha and Hossain, 2025).</p>https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/1743/2025/essd-17-1743-2025.pdf |
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