CCI Lake Products Data Access

The latest ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (CCI) lake product v2.0.2 provides daily observations of lake surface water temperature from 1995 to 2020. The global daily netCDF data files can be accessed from the CEDA Archive.

The lake product contains also lake ice cover, lake water level, lake water extension and lake color. A full description of the dataset can be found in the following paper:

Carrea L., Cretaux J.-F., Liu X., Wu Y., Calmettes B., Duguay C.R., Merchant C., Selmes N., Simis S.G.H., Warren M., Yesou H., Mueller D., Jiang D., Embury O., Berge-Nguyen M. and Albergel C. (2023) Satellite-derived multivariate world-wide lake physical variable timeseries for climate studies. Scientific Data, 10 (1). 30. ISSN 2052-4463 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01889-z