ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci): Lake products, Version 2.0.2

This dataset contains the Lakes Essential Climate Variable, which is comprised of processed satellite observations at the global scale, over the period 1992-2020, for over 2000 inland water bodies. This dataset was produced by the European Space Agency (ESA) Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci) project. For more information about the Lakes_cci please visit the project website.

This is version 2.0.2 of the dataset.

The five thematic climate variables included in this dataset are:

• Lake Water Level (LWL), derived from satellite altimetry, is fundamental to understand the balance between water inputs and water loss and their connection with regional and global climate change.

• Lake Water Extent (LWE), modelled from the relation between LWL and high-resolution spatial extent observed at set time-points, describes the areal extent of the water body. This allows the observation of drought in arid environments, expansion in high Asia, or impact of large-scale atmospheric oscillations on lakes in tropical regions for example. .

• Lake Surface Water temperature (LSWT), derived from optical and thermal satellite observations, is correlated with regional air temperatures and is informative about vertical mixing regimes, driving biogeochemical cycling and seasonality.

• Lake Ice Cover (LIC), determined from optical observations, describes the freeze-up in autumn and break-up of ice in spring, which are proxies for gradually changing climate patterns and seasonality.

• Lake Water-Leaving Reflectance (LWLR), derived from optical satellite observations, is 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 are derived from multiple satellite sensors including: TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason, ENVISAT, SARAL, Sentinel 2-3, Landsat OLI, ERS, MODIS Terra/Aqua and Metop.

Detailed information about the generation and validation of this dataset is available from the Lakes_cci documentation available on the project website and in Carrea, L., Crétaux, JF., Liu, X. et al. Satellite-derived multivariate world-wide lake physical variable timeseries for climate studies. Sci Data 10, 30 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01889-z

Date (Publication): 2022-07-06T09:44:33

Date (Creation): 2022-07-06T09:44:33

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a07deacaffb8453e93d57ee214676304

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / a07deacaffb8453e93d57ee214676304

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/a07deacaffb8453e93d57ee214676304

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Carrea, Laura	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Crétaux, Jean-François	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Liu, Xiaohan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Wu, Yuhao	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Bergé-Nguyen, Muriel	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Calmettes, Beatriz	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Duguay, Claude	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Jiang, Dalin	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Merchant, Christopher J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Mueller, Dagmar	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Selmes, Nick	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Simis, Stefan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Spyrakos, Evangelos	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Stelzer, Kerstin	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Warren, Mark	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Yesou, Hervé	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Zhang, Daoyuan	Unavailable	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

ESA
CCI
Lakes
ECV

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: 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.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 1992-09-26T00:00:00

End date: 2020-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Data are in NetCDF format

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a07deacaffb8453e93d57ee214676304	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/lakes/data/lake_products/L3S/v2.0.2/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/projects/lakes/	ESA CCI Lakes project website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int	ESA Climate Change Initiative website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/documents/1155/CCI-LAKES-0029-PUG-v1.2.pdf	Product User Guide

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/lakes/key-documents-lakes/	Documentation for ESA CCI Lakes project

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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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: This dataset was generated 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).

V2.0.2 of the data provides a minor update to v2.0.1, which fixes an issue with missing data.

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Date stamp: 2025-07-15T02:23:59

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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

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