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",
)
DataMeasurements(
DataMeasurements {
domain: Unspecified,
station: None,
measured_variables: [
"Continent",
"Country",
"DEPTH, water",
"ELEVATION",
"Ice coverage",
"Identification",
"LATITUDE",
"LONGITUDE",
"Lake",
"Lake surface area",
"Lake water volume",
"Shoreline length",
"Shoreline length, standard deviation",
],
methods: [
"occurrence",
],
},
)
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. This dataset has been carefully reviewed and curated in accordance with PANGAEA's exceptionally high quality standards. However, due to discontinued communication from the authors' side, it did not receive the usual formal approval by the authors and therefore lacks final scientific validation.
Tags: Seen ? Geografische Koordinaten ? Satellitenbild ? Globale Erwärmung ? Fernerkundung ? Klimawandel ? Küste ? Wasserstand ? North Temperate Zone ? lake ice ?
Bounding boxes: -143.385° .. 146.416° x 23.489° .. 66.4967°
License: Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Issued: 2026-01-27
Modified: 2026-01-27
Last harvest: 01.01.1970 00:00
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