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GloboLakes: Lake Surface Water Temperature (LSWT) v4.0 (1995-2016)

Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change (GloboLakes) was a project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) with the following grant references: NE/J023345/2, NE/J02211X/1, NE/J023396/1, NE/J021717/1 and NE/J022810/1.

This dataset contains the GloboLakes LSWT v4.0 of daily observations of Lake Surface Water Temperature (LSWT), its uncertainty and quality levels. The LSWTs are obtained by combining the orbit data from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) on MetOpA, AATSR (Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer) on Envisat and ATSR-2 (Along Track Scanning Radiometer) on ERS-2 (European Remote Sensing Satellite). The temperatures from the different instruments have been derived with the same algorithm and harmonised to insure consistency for the period 1995-2016. The GloboLakes LSWT v4.0 was produced by the University of Reading in 2018 for long term observations of surface water temperature for about 1000 lakes globally.

The dataset consist of two sets of files: 1) a single file per day on a 0.05° regular latitude- longitude grid covering the period from June 1995 to December 2016 (folder = daily), 2) a file per lake which contains the time series (daily) of the lake on a 0.05° regular grid (folder = per-lake). The list of the GloboLakes lakes is included as a CSV file and it contains name, GLWD identifier, coordinate of the lake centre and a set of coordinates that can be used to locate the lake in the daily-file dataset. The LSWTs consists of the daily observations of the temperature of the water (skin temperature). Uncertainty estimates and quality levels are provided for each value.

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Date (Publication)
2019-03-28T16:35:27
Date (Creation)
2019-03-28T16:35:27
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/76a29c5b55204b66a40308fc2ba9cdb3
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 76a29c5b55204b66a40308fc2ba9cdb3
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doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/76a29c5b55204b66a40308fc2ba9cdb3
Author
  Unavailable - Carrea, Laura ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( 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
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Cutler, Mark ( principal_investigator )
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Groom, Stephen ( principal_investigator )
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Maberly, Stephen ( principal_investigator )
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( principal_investigator )
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Miller, Claire ( principal_investigator )
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Keywords
  • GloboLakes
  • Water
  • Temperature
  • LSWT
  • Lake
  • Surface
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Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, 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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Begin date
1995-05-31T23:00:00
End date
2016-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are NetCDF formatted and a metadata file describing the lake ID's and locations that is BADC-CSV formatted. ()

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  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Datasets related to in-land water for limnology and remote sensing applications: distance-to-land, distance-to-water, water-body identifier and lake-centre co-ordinates

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2010-12-08
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Data were processed by the University of Reading within the GloboLakes project and deposited at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving.
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2025-11-15T03:16:44
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Metadata standard version
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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