Extended Data Fig. 7: Examples showing water occurrence and surface water connectivity over three time periods.
From: Global net increase in surface water connectivity in river–floodplain systems
a–f, Example regions in the upper Mekong and upper Yangtze (a, c), Colorado (b), Tigris–Euphrates (d), Yellow (e), and GBM (f) basins. The upper three images in each panel show water occurrence produced from the JCR GSW dataset, while the lower three images show surface water connectivity under normal inundation conditions for each pixel and river reach over three time periods (1984–1999, 2000–2009, and 2010–2019). The locations of constructed dams in the 2000s (2000–2009) and 2010s (2010–2019) are shown, with data sourced from Sun et al.53.
