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High-resolution mapping of ice cover changes in over 33,000 lakes across the North Temperate Zone

Description: Widespread reductions in lake ice have been detected recently worldwide, yet spatially detailed characterization of global lake ice is currently unavailable. Using 0.55 million Landsat satellite images from 1985 to 2020, we provide the first long-term wall-to-wall mapping of lake ice cover over the entire Northern Temperate Zone, comprising >33,000 lakes representing 48% of the global lake area in total.

Global identifier:

Doi(
    "10.1594/PANGAEA.937252",
)

Types:
Measurements {
    domain: Unspecified,
    station: None,
    measured_variables: [
        "Identification",
        "Lake",
        "Country",
        "Continent",
        "Lake surface area",
        "Shoreline length",
        "Shoreline length, standard deviation",
        "Lake water volume",
        "DEPTH, water",
        "ELEVATION",
        "LONGITUDE",
        "LATITUDE",
        "Ice coverage",
        "Ice coverage",
        "Ice coverage",
        "Ice coverage",
    ],
    methods: [
        "occurrence",
        "occurrence",
        "occurrence",
        "occurrence",
    ],
}
Dataset

Comment: ICO_P1 to ICO_P4 (in percentage) are the ICO values of the four-time periods: 1985-1998 (P1), 1999-2006 (P2), 2007-2014 (P3) and 2015-2020 (P4). The lake-specific features (i.e., Hylak_id, lake_name, Country, Continent, Lake_area, Shore_len, Shore_dev, Vol_total, Depth_avg and Elevation) are from the HydroLAKES database [Messager et al., 2016, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13603]. The lat and lon represent the centroid of a lake within the HydroLAKES's boundary.

Origins: /Wissenschaft/PANGAEA

Tags: Seen ? Satellitenbild ? Geografische Koordinaten ? Globale Erwärmung ? Fernerkundung ? Klimawandel ? Küste ? Wasserstand ? North Temperate Zone ? lake ice ?

Bounding boxes: -143.385° .. 146.416° x 23.489° .. 66.4967°

License: cc-by/4.0

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Language: Englisch/English

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Modified: 2025-01-09

Time ranges: 2025-01-09 - 2025-01-09

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