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.

Date (Publication): 2019-03-28T16:35:27

Date (Creation): 2019-03-28T16:35:27

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/76a29c5b55204b66a40308fc2ba9cdb3

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 76a29c5b55204b66a40308fc2ba9cdb3

Citation identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/76a29c5b55204b66a40308fc2ba9cdb3

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Carrea, Laura	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Merchant, Christopher J.	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Cutler, Mark	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Groom, Stephen	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Maberly, Stephen	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Merchant, Christopher J.	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Miller, Claire	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

GloboLakes
Water
Temperature
LSWT
Lake
Surface

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Language: English

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Begin date: 1995-05-31T23:00:00

End date: 2016-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
Data are NetCDF formatted and a metadata file describing the lake ID's and locations that is BADC-CSV formatted.

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/76a29c5b55204b66a40308fc2ba9cdb3	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/globolakes/data/lake-surface-temp/	DOWNLOAD

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gdj3.32	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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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.5589/m12-010	Surface water temperature observations of large lakes by optimal estimation

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: 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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Date stamp: 2026-03-01T03:16:40

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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