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ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci): Lake products, Version 1.0

This dataset contains various global lake products (1992-2019) produced by the European Space Agency (ESA) Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci) project.

Lakes are of significant interest to the scientific community, local to national governments, industries and the wider public. A range of scientific disciplines including hydrology, limnology, climatology, biogeochemistry and geodesy are interested in distribution and functioning of the millions of lakes (from small ponds to inland seas), from the local to the global scale. Remote sensing provides an opportunity to extend the spatio-temporal scale of lake observation.

The five thematic climate variables included in this dataset are:

• Lake Water Level (LWL): a proxy fundamental to understand the balance between water inputs and water loss and their connection with regional and global climate changes.

• Lake Water Extent (LWE): a proxy for change in glacial regions (lake expansion) and drought in many arid environments, water extent relates to local climate for the cooling effect that water bodies provide.

• Lake Surface Water temperature (LSWT): correlated with regional air temperatures and a proxy for mixing regimes, driving biogeochemical cycling and seasonality.

• Lake Ice Cover (LIC): freeze-up in autumn and advancing break-up in spring are proxies for gradually changing climate patterns and seasonality.

• Lake Water-Leaving Reflectance (LWLR): a direct indicator of biogeochemical processes and habitats in the visible part of the water column (e.g. seasonal phytoplankton biomass fluctuations), and an indicator of the frequency of extreme events (peak terrestrial run-off, changing mixing conditions).

Data generated in the Lakes_cci project are derived from data from multiple instruments and multiple satellites including; TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason, ENVISAT, SARAL, Sentinel, Landsat, ERS, Terra/Aqua, Suomi NPP, Metop and Orbview. For more information please see the product user guide in the documents.

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Date (Publication)
2020-06-08T14:06:01
Date (Creation)
2020-06-08T14:06:01
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3c324bb4ee394d0d876fe2e1db217378
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 3c324bb4ee394d0d876fe2e1db217378
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/3c324bb4ee394d0d876fe2e1db217378
Author
  Unavailable - Crétaux, Jean-François ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Duguay, Claude ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Simis, Stefan ( author )
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  Unavailable - Calmettes, Beatriz ( author )
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  Unavailable - Bergé-Nguyen, Muriel ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Wu, Yuhao ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Zhang, Daoyuan ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Carrea, Laura ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Liu, Xiaohan ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Selmes, Nick ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Warren, Mark ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Envisat
  • GFO
  • Jason-1
  • Jason-2
  • Jason-3
  • Metop-A
  • Orbview-2
  • SARAL
  • Sentinel-3A
  • Sentinel-3B
  • Topex/Poseidon
  • AltiKa
  • VIIRS
  • lakes
  • AATSR
  • ATSR-2
  • AVHRR-3
  • MERIS
  • MODIS
  • MSS
  • OLI
  • Poseidon-2
  • Poseidon-3
  • RA
  • RA-2
  • SSALT
  • TM
  • OLCI
  • SRAL
  • ESA
  • CCI
  • Lakes
  • ECV
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • orthoimagery
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_lakes_terms_and_conditions_v2.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
1992-09-26T00:00:00
End date
2019-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are in NetCDF format ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
OnLine resource
CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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ESA CCI Lakes project website

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Product User Guide

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User Requirement Document (URD) for the Lakes Climate Change Initiative

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Product Specification Document (PSD

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Data Access Requirement Document (DARD)

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ESA Climate Change Initiative website

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dataset Dataset

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The first version of this dataset was generate in the framework of the Lakes CCI+ project, funded by ESA. Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).
File identifier
3c324bb4ee394d0d876fe2e1db217378 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:19:21
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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