Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database

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Entry ID

G01377

Summary

The Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database contains freeze and breakup dates and other ice cover descriptive data for 748 lakes and rivers. Of the 429 water bodies that have records longer than 19 years, 287 are in North America and 141 are in Eurasia; 170 have records longer than 50 years; and 28 longer than 100 years. A few have data prior to 1845. These data, from water bodies distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, allow analysis of broad spatial patterns as well as long-term temporal patterns.

The data set was prepared by the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research program at the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 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 the Center of Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology (Long-Term Studies Program). The group would be happy to receive additional data on these lakes or rivers or others around the world for inclusion in the 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. The output can be directed to a Web browser, a gzipped file, or a tab-separated ASCII text file.

Note: The term 'phenology' in the data set title refers to the seasonal phenomenon of the freezing and thawing of lake and river ice.

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: Benson, B. and J. Magnuson
Dataset Title: Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database
Dataset Release Date: 2000-12-01, updated 2007
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/G01377.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1844-01-01
Stop Date: 2005-12-31

Location Keywords

• Geographic Region Northern Hemisphere

Science Keywords

• Cryosphere Snow/Ice Freeze/Thaw
• Cryosphere Snow/Ice Lake Ice
• Cryosphere Snow/Ice River Ice
• Terrestrial Hydrosphere Snow/Ice Freeze/Thaw
• Terrestrial Hydrosphere Snow/Ice Lake Ice
• Terrestrial Hydrosphere Snow/Ice River Ice

Ancillary Keywords

• 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

ISO Topic Category (View Definitions)

• Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
• Inland Waters

Platform

• GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Instrument

• VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

Quality

Please see the complete product documentation on the NSIDC Web site for a discussion of quality and data corrections.

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Set ID: G01377

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Data Set ID: G01377

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC NOAA User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/wdc/
Data Set ID: G01377

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: online (HTTP)
Distribution Format: ASCII text

Personnel

RANDOLPH H. WYNNE
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
Department of Forestry,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University,
City: Blacksburg
Province or State: VA
Postal Code: 24061

BARBARA J. BENSON
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: (608) 262-2573
Phone: (608) 262-3088
Fax: (608) 265-2340
Email: bbenson@LTERnet.edu
Email: bbenson@macc.wisc.edu
Contact Address:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Limnology
680 N. Park Street
City: Madison
Province or State: WI
Postal Code: 53706

JOHN J. MAGNUSON
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: (608) 262-3014
Fax: (608) 262-2340
Email: jmagnuson@LTERnet.edu
Email: jmagnuson@macc.wisc.edu
Contact Address:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Limnology
680 N. Park Street
City: Madison
Province or State: WI
Postal Code: 53706

DALE M. ROBERTSON
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
U.S. Geological Survey,
Water Resources Division,
City: Middleton
Province or State: WI
Postal Code: 53562

FLORENCE FETTERER
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449

NSIDC USER SERVICES
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Related URL

VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Access to data and documentation for the Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Web Site

Reference

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.

Metadata Name and Version

Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2000-11-22
Last DIF Revision Date: 2007-02-27

DIF Text-Only

Directory Interchange Format (DIF) in plain text

DIF XML

Directory Interchange Format (DIF) in Extensible Markup Language (XML)

FGDC HTML

U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM)