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

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Data, March 2015
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Title
A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009
Published in
Scientific Data, March 2015
DOI 10.1038/sdata.2015.8
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Authors

Sapna Sharma, Derek K Gray, Jordan S Read, Catherine M O’Reilly, Philipp Schneider, Anam Qudrat, Corinna Gries, Samantha Stefanoff, Stephanie E Hampton, Simon Hook, John D Lenters, David M Livingstone, Peter B McIntyre, Rita Adrian, Mathew G Allan, Orlane Anneville, Lauri Arvola, Jay Austin, John Bailey, Jill S Baron, Justin Brookes, Yuwei Chen, Robert Daly, Martin Dokulil, Bo Dong, Kye Ewing, Elvira de Eyto, David Hamilton, Karl Havens, Shane Haydon, Harald Hetzenauer, Jocelyne Heneberry, Amy L Hetherington, Scott N Higgins, Eric Hixson, Lyubov R Izmest’eva, Benjamin M Jones, Külli Kangur, Peter Kasprzak, Olivier Köster, Benjamin M Kraemer, Michio Kumagai, Esko Kuusisto, George Leshkevich, Linda May, Sally MacIntyre, Dörthe Müller-Navarra, Mikhail Naumenko, Peeter Noges, Tiina Noges, Pius Niederhauser, Ryan P North, Andrew M Paterson, Pierre-Denis Plisnier, Anna Rigosi, Alon Rimmer, Michela Rogora, Lars Rudstam, James A Rusak, Nico Salmaso, Nihar R Samal, Daniel E Schindler, Geoffrey Schladow, Silke R Schmidt, Tracey Schultz, Eugene A Silow, Dietmar Straile, Katrin Teubner, Piet Verburg, Ari Voutilainen, Andrew Watkinson, Gesa A Weyhenmeyer, Craig E Williamson, Kara H Woo

Abstract

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.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 2%
Rwanda 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Pakistan 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 311 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 69 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 64 19%
Student > Master 40 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 7%
Other 19 6%
Other 51 16%
Unknown 64 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 109 33%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 50 15%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 44 13%
Engineering 18 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 1%
Other 29 9%
Unknown 75 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 91. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 April 2021.
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#458,914
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Outputs from Scientific Data
#155
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Outputs of similar age from Scientific Data
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