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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ESSDD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2026-528</article-id>
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<article-title>Global daily satellite-derived lake surface water quality dataset (2002&amp;ndash;2022)</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shahvaran</surname>
<given-names>Ali Reza</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Noori</surname>
<given-names>Roohollah</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>4</sup>
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<sup>5</sup>
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<sup>6</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Basheer</surname>
<given-names>Mohammed</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Madani</surname>
<given-names>Kaveh</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mi</surname>
<given-names>Chenxi</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
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<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shi</surname>
<given-names>Kun</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
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<sup>6</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhou</surname>
<given-names>Yong Qiang</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>5</sup>
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<sup>6</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Woolway</surname>
<given-names>R. Iestyn</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>7</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Yun Lin</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>5</sup>
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<sup>6</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Qin</surname>
<given-names>Bo Qiang</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
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<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>AghaKouchak</surname>
<given-names>Amir</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>8</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>van Vliet</surname>
<given-names>Michelle T. H.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2597-8422</ext-link>
</name>
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<sup>9</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Water Resources and Hydrology (WRH) Research Group, Department of Civil &amp; Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto,   Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Ecohydrology Research Group, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1,  Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Remote Sensing of Environmental Change (ReSEC) Research Group, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies,  Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 3P4,  Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing (UCASNJ), Nanjing 211135, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Anglesey LL59 5AB, UK</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff9">
<label>9</label>
<addr-line>Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>25</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>26</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Ali Reza Shahvaran et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Satellite remote sensing is critical for monitoring global inland water quality, yet the complexity and volume of raw data archives often hinder their widespread application. Here, we present a standardized, accessible dataset of &lt;em&gt;concurrent&lt;/em&gt; daily water quality statistics for 5,551 lakes worldwide from 2002 to 2022. Derived from the European Space Agency&amp;rsquo;s Lakes Climate Change Initiative (ESA Lakes_cci), this dataset provides lake-wide statistics&amp;mdash;including estimates of mean, ranges and extremes, and spatial coverage&amp;mdash;for three relevant water quality parameters: chlorophyll-&lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; (Chl-&lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt;), lake surface water temperature (LSWT), and turbidity. Distinctively, these records are harmonized to retain only days on which all three parameters are simultaneously valid, facilitating robust multivariate analysis. The data were extracted using HydroLAKES polygon boundaries and introduce a novel multi-tiered quality assurance flagging scheme to identify spatial inhomogeneities and temporal anomalies, providing a new analytical dimension. By transforming massive, multidimensional NetCDF files into easily-accessible tabular formats, this resource eliminates steep computational barriers, supporting researchers and other end users in conducting macro-scale limnological studies, training machine learning models, and assessing climate change impacts on lake water quality and aquatic ecosystems. The dataset and developed codes are openly accessible at &lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20347115&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20347115&lt;/a&gt; (Shahvaran &lt;em&gt;et al.&lt;/em&gt;, 2026)</p>
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