C1 DESCRIPTION:

Global databank of 668 large impoundments from a series of world dam registers published by ICOLD and IWPDC (ICOLD, 1984;1988; IWPDC, 1994; 1989), with the following attributes:

- Dam name

- Year

- River Name

- Nearest City

- Province

- Country

- Continent

- Dam Type

- Length

- Volume of dam body

- Reservoir Capacity

- Area

- Latitude and Longitude

Geo-referencing provided by University of New Hampshire (Vorosmarty et al., 1997; 2003).

DOWNLOADABLE FILES:

Inside the compressed archive file named reservoirs.zip:

c_reservoirs.e00 = Arc Info coverage showing the geographic location of reservoirs. Primary Source: ICOLD, 1984; 1988; IWPDC, 1989; 1994.

field_description.txt = column headings for attributes table (reservoir.txt). Primary Source: ICOLD, 1984; 1988; IWPDC, 1989; 1994.

reservoirs.txt = attributes table for Reservoir coverage in ascii format. Primary Source: ICOLD, 1984; 1988; IWPDC, 1989; 1994.

reservoirs.xls = attributes table for Reservoir coverage in Excel format. Primary Source: ICOLD, 1984; 1988; IWPDC, 1989; 1994.

REFERENCES:

ICOLD. 1984, 1988. World Register of Dams. 1984 full edition and 1988 updating. International Commission on Large Dams, Paris.

International Water Power and Dam Construction. 1994. Handbook. Reed Business Publishing. Sutton, Surrey, U.K. 224 p.

International Water Power and Dam Construction. 1989. The World's Major Dams and Hydro Plants. Global map. Reed Business Publishing, Sutton, Surrey.

Vörösmarty, C. J., K. P. Sharma, B. M. Fekete, A. H. Copeland, J. Holden, J. Marble and J. A. Lough. The Storage and aging of continental runoff in large reservoir systems of the world, AMBIO, 26 (4): 210-219.

Vörösmarty, C.J., M. Meybeck, B. Fekete, K. Sharma, P. Green, and J. Syvitski. 2003. Anthropogenic sediment retention: Major global-scale impact from the population of registered impoundments. Global and Planetary Change 39: 169-190.

Additional Links:

International Commission on Large Dams