Global NEWS Datasets

Global NEWS Outputs

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Datasets Used

Global NEWS models use a wide variety of spatially distributed global datasets as inputs. Two research groups, both Global NEWS members, provide the majority of these datasets:

  1. Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP). MNG is the primary provider of datasets on land use and terrestrial nutrient exports and budgets from areas impacted by humans.
  2. University of New Hampshire's Water Systems Analysis Group (WSAG). WSAG is the primary provider of hydrological and river network datasets (references listed below describe the original development of each dataset; however, the versions used in Global NEWS or distributed on WSAG web sites may differ from the ones described in the publications):
    • STN-30p basins and river networks, version 6.01. Vörösmarty, C., Fekete, B., Meybeck, M. & Lammers, R. 2000. Global system of rivers: Its role in organizing continental land mass and defining land-to-ocean linkages. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14, 599-621
    • Composite runoff fields. Fekete, B. M., Vörösmarty, C. J. & Grabs, W. 2002. High-resolution fields of global runoff combining observed river discharge and simulated water balances. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16, 1042, doi:10.1029/1999GB001254
    • Dam and reservoirs, including location, physical attributes, and estimates of retention. Vörösmarty, C. J., Meybeck, M., Fekete, B., Sharma, K., Green, P. & Syvitski, J. P. M. 2003. Anthropogenic sediment retention: major global impact from registered river impoundments. Global and Planetary Change 39, 169-190