Lake surface temperature retrieved from Landsat satellite series (1984 to 2021) for the North Slave Region

Attiah, Gifty; Kheyrollah Pour, Homa; Scott, K. Andrea

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1329-2023

Articles | Volume 15, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1329-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1329-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 3

Data description paper

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23 Mar 2023

Data description paper |

| 23 Mar 2023

Lake surface temperature retrieved from Landsat satellite series (1984 to 2021) for the North Slave Region

Gifty Attiah, Homa Kheyrollah Pour, and K. Andrea Scott

Data sets

North Slave Lake Surface Temperature (LST) retrieved from Landsat archives, 1984 to 2021 Gifty Attiah, Homa Kheyrollah Pour, and K. Andrea Scott https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/J4GMC2

HydroLAKES HydroSheds https://www.hydrosheds.org/products/hydrolakes

2016 Census-Boundary files Statistics Canada https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/files-fichiers/ghy_000c06a_e.zip

Lakes, Rivers and Glaciers in Canada - CanVec Series - Hydrographic Features Natural Resources Canada https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/9d96e8c9-22fe-4ad2-b5e8-94a6991b744b

CIMP 161_Legacy arsenic pollution in Yellowknife Bay sediments Environment and Climate Change Canada, Université de Montréal https://doi.org/10.25976/gm49-2a19

ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1959 to present H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee, and J.-N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47

Short summary

Lake surface temperature (LST) is a significant indicator of climate change and influences local weather and climate. This study developed a LST dataset retrieved from Landsat archives for 535 lakes across the North Slave Region, NWT, Canada. The data consist of individual NetCDF files for all observed days for each lake. The North Slave LST dataset will provide communities, scientists, and stakeholders with the changing spatiotemporal trends of LST for the past 38 years (1984–2021).