Lake surface water temperatures of European Alpine lakes (1989–2013) based on the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) 1 km data set

Riffler, M.; Lieberherr, G.; Wunderle, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-1-2015

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-1-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-1-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

Review article

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10 Feb 2015

Review article |

| 10 Feb 2015

Lake surface water temperatures of European Alpine lakes (1989–2013) based on the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) 1 km data set

M. Riffler, G. Lieberherr, and S. Wunderle

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RC C78: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 May 2014
- AC C249: 'Answers to reviewer 1', Michael Riffler, 28 Oct 2014
RC C194: 'Review for Lake surface water temperatures of European Alpine lakes (1989-2013) based on the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) 1-km data set', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Aug 2014
- AC C258: 'Answers to reviewer 2', Michael Riffler, 29 Oct 2014

Short summary

We were able to demonstrate that data from polar orbiting satellites can be used not only to derive lake water temperature for large lakes (> 500km2) but also for the many lakes like in central Europe which are smaller than 100km2. The linear warming trend derived for one of the lakes shows good agreement between in situ and satellite observations. Thus, this data set will offer the possibility to investigate the impact of climate change on lake water temperatures in central Europe.