A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

Sapna Sharma (1) , Derek K. Gray (2) , Jordan S. Read (3) , Catherine M. O’reilly (4) , Philipp Schneider (5) , Anam Qudrat (1) , Corinna Gries (6) , Samantha Stefanoff (1) , Stephanie E. Hampton (7) , Simon Hook (8) , John D. Lenters , David M. Livingstone (9) , Peter B Mcintyre (6) , Rita Adrian (10) , Mathew G Allan (11) , Orlane Anneville (12) , Lauri Arvola (13) , Jay Austin (14) , John Bailey (15) , Jill S Baron (16) , Justin Brookes (17) , Yuwei Chen (18) , Robert Daly (19) , Martin Dokulil (20) , Bo Dong (21) , Kye Ewing (22) , Elvira de Eyto (23) , David Hamilton (11) , Karl Havens (24) , Shane Haydon (25) , Harald Hetzenauer (26) , Jocelyne Heneberry (15) , Amy L Hetherington (27) , Scott N Higgins (28) , Eric Hixson (29) , Lyubov R Izmest’eva (30) , Benjamin M Jones (3) , Külli Kangur (31) , Peter Kasprzak (10) , Olivier Köster (32) , Benjamin M Kraemer (6) , Michio Kumagai (33) , Esko Kuusisto (34) , George Leshkevich (35) , Linda May (36) , Sally Macintyre (37) , Dörthe Müller-Navarra (38) , Mikhail Naumenko (39) , Peeter Nõges (40) , Tiina Noges (40) , Pius Niederhauser (41) , Ryan P North (42) , Andrew M Paterson (43) , Pierre-Denis Plisnier (44) , Anna Rigosi (17) , Alon Rimmer (45) , Michela Rogora (46) , Lars Rudstam (27) , James A Rusak (43) , Nico Salmaso (47) , Nihar R Samal (48) , Daniel E Schindler (49) , Geoffrey Schladow (50) , Silke R Schmidt (10) , Tracey Schultz (51) , Eugene A Silow (30) , Dietmar Straile (52) , Katrin Teubner (53) , Piet Verburg (54) , Ari Voutilainen (55) , Andrew Watkinson (56) , Gesa A Weyhenmeyer (57) , Craig E Williamson (58) , Kara H Woo (7)

1 York University
2 University of Pennsylvania
3 USGS - United States Geological Survey
4 Department of Geography & Geology
5 NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research
6 Center for Limnology
7 Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach
8 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
9 EAWAG - Swiss Federal Insitute of Aquatic Science and Technology [Dübendorf]
10 IGB - Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
11 University of Waikato
12 CARRTEL - Centre Alpin de Recherche sur les Réseaux Trophiques et Ecosystèmes Limniques
13 LBS - Lammi Biological Station
14 Large Lakes Observatory
15 Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change
16 CSU - Colorado State University [Fort Collins]
17 University of Adelaide
18 Niglas - Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology
19 Australian Water Quality Center
20 Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck
21 SUNY - State University of New York
22 Archbold Biological Station’s Buck Island Ranch, FL, Lake Placid, USA
23 Marine Institute
24 UF - University of Florida [Gainesville]
25 Melbourne
26 Institut für Seenforschung
27 Department of Natural Resources
28 IISD - International Institute for Sustainable Development
29 Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District
30 ISU - Irkutsk State University
31 Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
32 Wasserversorgung der Stadt Zurich
33 Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute
34 SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute
35 NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
36 NERC - Natural Environment Research Council
37 UC - University of California
38 University of Hamburg
39 RAS - Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow]
40 EMU - Estonian University of Life Sciences
41 Amt fur Abfall, Wasser, Energie und Luft
42 GKSS - Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht
43 Dorset Environmental Science Centre
44 RMCA - Royal Museum for Central Africa [Tervuren]
45 IOLR - Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
46 CNR - National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
47 FEM - Fondazione Edmund Mach - Edmund Mach Foundation [Italie]
48 City University of New York
49 School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
50 UC Davis - University of California [Davis]
51 Sydney Catchment Authority
52 Department of Biology
53 University of Vienna [Vienna]
54 NIWA - National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research [Wellington]
55 Department of Biology
56 Seqwater
57 Uppsala University
58 University of Miami

Global environmental change has influenced lake surface temperatures, a key driver of ecosystem structure and function. Recent studies have suggested significant warming of water temperatures in individual lakes across many different regions around the world. However, the spatial and temporal coherence associated with the magnitude of these trends remains unclear. Thus, a global data set of water temperature is required to understand and synthesize global, long-term trends in surface water temperatures of inland bodies of water. We assembled a database of summer lake surface temperatures for 291 lakes collected in situ and/or by satellites for the period 1985–2009. In addition, corresponding climatic drivers (air temperatures, solar radiation, and cloud cover) and geomorphometric characteristics (latitude, longitude, elevation, lake surface area, maximum depth, mean depth, and volume) that influence lake surface temperatures were compiled for each lake. This unique dataset offers an invaluable baseline perspective on global-scale lake thermal conditions as environmental change continues.

Mots clés: climate change; climate-change ecology

Mots clés: limnology

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Sapna Sharma, Derek K. Gray, Jordan S. Read, Catherine M. O’reilly, Philipp Schneider, et al.. A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009. Scientific Data , 2015, 2, pp.1-19. ⟨10.1038/sdata.2015.8⟩. ⟨hal-02638235⟩