G01377
Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database
Benson, B. and J. Magnuson.
Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database
2000-12-01updated 2012
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/g01377.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5W66HP8
Investigator
Barbara
Benson
bjbenson@wisc.edu
1 608 262-3014 x
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Limnology
680 N. Park Street
Madison
WI
53706
Investigator
John
Magnuson
jjmagnus@wisc.edu
1 608 262-3014 x
1 608 262-2340 x
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Limnology
680 N. Park Street
Madison
WI
53706
Investigator
John
Magnuson
jjmagnus@wisc.edu
1 608 262-3014 x
1 608 262-2340 x
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Limnology
680 N. Park Street
Madison
WI
53706
Investigator
Florence
Fetterer
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
Technical Contact
NSIDC
User Services
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1 303 492-6199 x
1 303 492-2468 x
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Snow/Ice
Freeze/Thaw
Freeze Date, Breakup Date, Ice Duration
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Snow/Ice
Lake Ice
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Snow/Ice
River Ice
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Snow/Ice
Freeze/Thaw
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Snow/Ice
Lake Ice
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Snow/Ice
River Ice
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Inland Waters
Breakup
Broad Spatial Patterns
Climate
FREEZE UP
Ice Off Date
Ice On Date
Lake Ice
Lake Ice Analysis Group
LIAG
LONG-TERM TEMPORAL PATTERNS
LONG-TERM TRENDS
NOAA
NSIDC
River Ice
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
874-01-01
2009-12-31
complete
36.5
82.5
-140.4
149.3
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
Please see the complete product documentation on the NSIDC Web site for a discussion of quality and data corrections.
English
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1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
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Magnuson, J., D. Robertson, B. Benson, R. Wynne, D. Livingstone, T. Arai, R. Assel, R. Barry, V. Card, E. Kuusisto, N. Granin, T. Prowse, K. Steward, V. Vuglinski. 2000. Historical Trends in Lake and River Ice Cover in the Northern Hemisphere Science 289 (8 September):1743-1746.
Also see the papers published in the Proceedings of the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL) XXVII Congress, 9-14 August, Dublin, Ireland, 1998.
The Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database contains freeze and thaw/breakup dates as well as other descriptive ice cover data for 865 lakes and rivers in the Northern Hemisphere. Of the 542 water bodies that have records longer than 19 years, 370 of them are in North America and 172 are in Eurasia. 249 lakes and rivers have records longer than 50 years, and 66 have records longer than 100 years. A few water bodies have data available prior to 1845. This database, with water bodies distributed around the Northern Hemisphere, allows for the analysis of broad spatial patterns as well as long-term temporal patterns.
This data set was prepared by the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research (NTL-LTER) program at the Center for Limnology (CFL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) from data submitted by participants in the Lake Ice Analysis Group (LIAG). LIAG is an international ad hoc group of scientists who participated in a 1996 workshop sponsored by CFL and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program as well as other data contributors. The group is especially interested in continuous data extending for 30 years or more. If you wish to contribute data for inclusion in the database, please contact Corinna Gries (cgries@wisc.edu) at CFL.
The data are stored in a standard format in a database. NSIDC has developed a Web-based user interface to the database that allows users to search the database and retrieve data by the available parameters. The interface also includes a link to more general information about the lakes and rivers in the database, including, for example, latitude and longitude. The output can be directed to a Web browser, a gzipped file, or a tab-separated ASCII text file.
<strong>Note</strong>: The term phenology in the data set title refers to the seasonal phenomenon of the freezing and thawing of lake and river ice.
Access to the Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database data set is unrestricted, but users are encouraged to register for the data. Registered users will automatically receive e-mail notification about any product changes.
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CEOS IDN DIF
9.7
2000-12-01
2013-03-07
Added DOI