ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci): Lake products, Version 1.1

This dataset contains various global lake products (1992-2019) produced by the European Space Agency (ESA) Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci) project. This is version 1.1 of the dataset.

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.

Date (Publication): 2021-07-12T09:00:33

Date (Creation): 2021-07-12T09:00:33

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ef1627f523764eae8bbb6b81bf1f7a0a

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / ef1627f523764eae8bbb6b81bf1f7a0a

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/ef1627f523764eae8bbb6b81bf1f7a0a

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Crétaux, Jean-François	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Merchant, Christopher J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Duguay, Claude	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Simis, Stefan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Calmettes, Beatriz	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Bergé-Nguyen, Muriel	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Wu, Yuhao	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Zhang, Daoyuan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Carrea, Laura	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Liu, Xiaohan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Selmes, Nick	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Warren, Mark	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

day
Collecte Localisation Satellites
Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geodesie et Oceanographie Spatiales
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Aqua
Envisat
ERS-2
GFO
Jason-1
Jason-2
Jason-3
Landsat-4
Landsat-5
Landsat-7
Landsat-8
Metop-A
Metop-B
Orbview-2
SARAL
Sentinel-1A
Sentinel-3A
Sentinel-3B
SNPP
Terra
Topex/Poseidon
Level 3
Level 3S
MERGED
AltiKa
VIIRS
lakes
multiple lake products
AATSR
ATSR-2
AVHRR-3
MERIS
MODIS
MSS
OLI
Poseidon-2
Poseidon-3
RA
RA-2
SeaWiFS
SSALT
TM
OLCI
SRAL
University of Reading
H2O Geomatics
ESA
CCI
Lakes
ECV

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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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

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 1992-09-15T00:00:00

End date: 2019-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are netCDF formatted.

Distributor contact

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ef1627f523764eae8bbb6b81bf1f7a0a	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/lakes/data/lake_products/L3S/v1.1/	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/#milestone-4	Documentation for ESA CCI Lakes project

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

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 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).

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Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-10T03:21:30

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

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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