- Global Groundwater Levels -
Annual groundwater level data described in the following publication: Jasechko, S. Seybold, H.S., Perrone, D., Fan, Y., Shamsudduha, M., Taylor, R.G., Fallatah, O., Kirchner, J.W. Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally. Nature, doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06879-8 (2024). Annual groundwater level data are available in cases where we have received permission from a database manager to post annual groundwater level data. These two .csv files contain annual groundwater level data for Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Guam, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States (Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program, US Geological Survey's (USGS) National Water Information System, and the Texas Water Development Board).

File 1 of 2 entitled "AnnualDepthToGroundwater.csv"
"StnID" - unique number for the monitoring well
"Lat" - latitude of the monitoring well (in some cases this may be an approximation)
"Lon" - latitude of the monitoring well (in some cases this may be an approximation)
"IntegerYear" - calendar year
"DepthToWater_m" - annual median depth to groundwater (units of metres below reference point and/or groundwater surface)

File 2 of 2 entitled "AnnualGroundwaterElevation.csv"
"StnID" - unique number for the monitoring well
"Lat" - latitude of the monitoring well (in some cases this may be an approximation)
"Lon" - latitude of the monitoring well (in some cases this may be an approximation)
"IntegerYear" - calendar year
"GroundwaterElevation_masl" - annual median groundwater elevation (units of metres above sea level)

This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant nos. EAR-2048227 and EAR-2234213. This research was supported by funding from the Zegar Family Foundation. This material is based on work supported by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) through the California Institute for Water Resources (CIWR) under grant/cooperative agreement no. G21AP10611-00. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of the USGS/CIWR. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the USGS/CIWR. R.G.T. acknowledges the support of a fellowship (ref. 7040464) from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research under the Earth 4D programme. S.J. acknowledges the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve (https://doi.org/10.25497/D7159W ), the Point Conception Institute and the Nature Conservancy for their support of this research.

For a related database of global aquifer system boundaries see: https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/73834f47b8b5459a8db4c999e6e3fef6/