The Seeing Water From Space challenge.
We could not find / understand data for ground water bodies, or salt flats, or ice. The precipitation data is easier to understand so we shifted focus from the Chile altiplano to the whole world, and from water bodies to precipitation. :)
A time-lapse animation of the precipitation data around the world from 1901 to 2012
Data from the GPCC project, Full Data Reanalysis Version 6
Warning: It will download 250MB.
A page where you can visually compare the precipitation in each month of the year, from 1901 to 2012
Data from the GPCC project, Full Data Reanalysis Version 6.
Images created with Panoply.
Warning: It will download 1300 images, 100MB in total.
We also documented the resources we found, the problems and difficulties we encountered.