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    • VIIRS/NPP Water Reservoir Monthly L3 Global V002

    Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

    The NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Water Reservoir Product Monthly Level 3 (L3) Global (VNP28C3) Version 2 product provides current data for 151 man-made reservoirs and 13 regulated natural lakes for a total of 164 reservoirs.The VNP28C3 data product is a composite of the 8-day area classifications from VNP28C2 which is converted to provide monthly elevation and water storage. The Lake Temperature and Evaporation Model (LTEM) with input from VIIRS Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (VNP21A2) and meteorological data from Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) are used to produce monthly evaporation rates and volume losses.The VNP28C3 data product provides a monthly time series that consists of a single layer with information about the reservoir identifier, dam location (longitude and latitude), reservoir surface area, elevation, water storage capacity, evaporation rate, and evaporation volume. Known Issues* Water occurrence images generally show smaller surface area dynamics in high latitude regions, creating pixels with low occurrence values that have relatively large uncertainties. In addition, the quality of raw water area classification can be affected by lake ice coverage typically creating an overestimation of surface area in the enhancement algorithm. This issue will be addressed in a future release of the enhancement algorithm. For additional information about known issues, refer to the User Guide.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/LandSIPS;LP DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/VIIRS/VNP28C3.002
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP28C3.002
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    Program Code 026:000
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    Source Hash 39b8b95b9e37c70bfee4604c001e3b19498c151312970ec7d4595b582a72d1e1
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    Temporal 2012-01-01/2012-01-01

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