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Global Water Data

This web page hosts published water databases free to download in the spirit of open access data sharing. Please consider citing the reference next to the dataset(s) if working with the entire database. Some of the data presented below are compilations of previously published datasets; please consider citing the original publication linked to each of the individual datasets in the compilations where possible.

1) IsotopE composition of large lakes (April-2013)

Please cite dataset as:
Jasechko, S., Sharp, Z. D., Gibson, J. J., Birks, S. J., Yi, Y. & Fawcett, P. J. Terrestrial water fluxes dominated by transpiration Nature 496, 347–350 (2013).

large_lake_isotope.xls
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2) Global Transpiration measurements (February-2014)

Please cite dataset as:
Schlesinger, W. & Jasechko, S. Transpiration in the global water cycle. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 189-190, 115–117 (2014).
transpiration_measurements.xls
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3) Great Lake Isotope compositions (June-2014)

Please cite dataset as:
Jasechko, S., Gibson, J. J. & Edwards, T. W. D. Stable isotope mass balance of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 40, 336–346 (2014).
great_lakes_isotopes.xls
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​4) Global Late-Pleistocene groundwater isotope records (September-2015)
(see dataset #7 below for updated compilation)

Please cite dataset as:
Jasechko, S., Lechler, A., Pausata, F. S. R., Fawcett, P. J., Gleeson, T., Cendon, D. I., Galewsky, J., LeGrande, A. N., Risi, C., Sharp, Z. D., Welker, J. M., Werner, M., Yoshimura, K. Late-glacial to late-Holocene shifts in global precipitation δ18O. Climate of the Past 11, 1375-1393 (2015).

groundwater_supplement.xls
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5) Global Groundwater tritium measurements (September-2015)

Please cite dataset as:
Gleeson, T., Befus, K., Jasechko, S., Luijendijk, E., Cardenas, M. B. The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater. Nature Geoscience 9, 161–168 (2016).

3h_compilation.xls
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6) Global precipitation TRITIUM (DECEMBER-2015)

Please cite dataset as:
Jasechko, S., Taylor, R. G. Intensive rainfall recharges tropical groundwaters. Environmental Research Letters 10, 124015 (2015).

Precipitation Tritium Data Page
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7) Global Late-Pleistocene precipitation isotope records (July-2016)

Please cite dataset as:
Jasechko, S. Late-Pleistocene precipitation δ18O interpolated across the global landmass. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 17, 3274–3288 (2016)

late-pleistocene_isotope_records.xls
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8) Canadian groundwater and RIVER isotope data (March-2017)

Please cite dataset as:
Jasechko, S., Mayer, B., Wassenaar, L. I. Isotopic evidence for widespread cold-season-biased groundwater recharge and young streamflow across central Canada. Hydrological Processes 31, 2196-2209 (2017).

canada_river_groundwater.xls
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9) Global Groundwater Carbon Isotope data (April-2017)

Please cite the dataset as:
Jasechko, S., Perrone, D., Befus, K. M., Cardenas, M. B., Ferguson, G., Gleeson, T., Luijendijk, E., McDonnell, J. J., Taylor, R. G., Wada, Y., Kirchner, J. W. Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination. Nature Geoscience 10, 425–429 (2017).
groundwater_radiocarbon.xls
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10) Western us groundwater well data (september-2017)

Please cite the dataset as:
Perrone, D., Jasechko, S. Dry groundwater wells in the western United States. Environmental Research Letters 12, 104002 (2017).
Western Water Well Data Page
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11) Athabasca oil sands water chemistry (january-2018)

Please cite the dataset as:
Ellis, J. Jasechko, S. Formation waters discharge to rivers near oil sands projects. Hydrological Processes (in the press).
oil_sands_water_chemistry.xlsx
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12) Global late-pleistocene precipitation isotope compositions (April-2019)

Please cite the dataset as:
Jasechko, S., Global isotope hydrogeology-Review. Reviews of Geophysics, 57, 835-965 (2019).
Late-Pleistocene δ18O
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13) US Groundwater well data (july-2019)

Please cite the dataset as:
Perrone, D., Jasechko, S. Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion, Nature Sustainability 2, 773-782 (2019).
USA Water Well Data Page
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14) US aquifer database (April-2022)

Please cite the dataset as:
GebreEgziabher, M., Jasechko, S., Perrone, D. (2022). Widespread and increased drilling of wells into fossil aquifers in the USA
Nature Communications 13, 2129, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29678-7
US Aquifer Database
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