Daily Great Lakes Ice Concentration, 1973 Onward, Version 1
Data set id:
G10029
DOI: 10.7265/krkb-f591
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Initial release

Overview

This data set consists of daily gridded lake ice concentration for the Laurentian Great Lakes from the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL). The data are provided as gridded ASCII text files and shapefiles along with corresponding browse image files in .jpg format.
Parameter(s):
LAKE ICE
Platform(s):
Aqua, GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS, RADARSAT-2, Sentinel-1A, Terra
Sensor(s):
C-SAR, MODIS, SAR, TEMPERATURE PROBES, WIND VANES
Data Format(s):
JPEG, ASCII, Shapefile
Temporal Coverage:
20 December 1972 to 21 May 2023
Temporal Resolution:
  • 1 day
Spatial Resolution:
  • 1.8 m
  • 1.8 m
Spatial Reference System(s):
N/A
N/A
Spatial Coverage:
N:
50.6
S:
38.86
E:
-75.86
W:
-92.42
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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