A 41-year (1979–2019) passive-microwave-derived lake ice phenology data record of the Northern Hemisphere

Cai, Yu; Duguay, Claude R.; Ke, Chang-Qing

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3329-2022

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3329-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3329-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

Data description paper

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19 Jul 2022

Data description paper |

| 19 Jul 2022

A 41-year (1979–2019) passive-microwave-derived lake ice phenology data record of the Northern Hemisphere

Yu Cai, Claude R. Duguay, and Chang-Qing Ke

Data sets

Lake ice phenology in the Northern Hemisphere extracted from SMMR, SSM/I and SSMIS data from 1979 to 2020 Yu Cai, Claude R. Duguay, and Chang-Qing Ke https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.937904

Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database Barbara Benson, John Magnuson, and Florence Fetterer https://doi.org/10.7265/N5W66HP8

MEaSUREs Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Passive Microwave Daily EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperature ESDR M. J. Brodzik, D. G. Long, M. A. Hardman, A. Paget, and R. Armstrong https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/NSIDC-0630.001

Daily Lake Ice Phenology Time Series Derived from AMSR-E and AMSR2 Jinyang Du and John Kimball https://doi.org/10.5067/HT4NQO7ZJF7M

Historical Great Lakes Ice Cover NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/#historical

ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci): Lake products J. -F. Crétaux, C. J. Merchant, C. Duguay, S. Simis, B. Calmettes, M. Bergé-Nguyen, Y. Wu, D. Zhang, L. Carrea, X. Liu, N. Selmes, and M. Warren https://doi.org/10.5285/3c324bb4ee394d0d876fe2e1db217378

Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach (https://www.hydrosheds.org/page/hydrolakes) M. L. Messager, B. Lehner, G. Grill, I. Nedeva, and O. Schmitt https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13603

Short summary

Seasonal ice cover is one of the important attributes of lakes in middle- and high-latitude regions. This study used passive microwave brightness temperature measurements to extract the ice phenology for 56 lakes across the Northern Hemisphere from 1979 to 2019. A threshold algorithm was applied according to the differences in brightness temperature between lake ice and open water. The dataset will provide valuable information about the changing ice cover of lakes over the last 4 decades.