Lake mask and distance to land dataset of 2024 lakes for the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Lakes v2

This dataset contains the distance to land and the lake identifiers as a global netcdf file for all the water pixels at 1km (1/120 deg) lat/lon resolution of 2024 lakes distributed globally. It contains also the list of lakes as a csv file with information such as the lake center as defined in [1], and the coordinate of a box to easily locate the like in the global netcd file. The mask excludes islands on lakes and it has been derived from the GloboLakes high resolution limnology dataset [2]. The dateset have been further harmonized with the lake maximum extent lake polygons by PML [3]. The lake list with the plot of the mask and the polygons is available as a html file accessible also from the lake website at the University of Reading: http://www.laketemp.net/home_CCI/LMPolygons.php

This dataset accompanies the ESA CCI Lakes v2 dataset [4].

[1] Carrea, L.; Embury, O.; Merchant, C.J. (2015): High-resolution datasets related to in-land water for limnology and remote sensing applications: distance-to-land, distance-to-water, water-body identifier and lake-centre co-ordinates - Geoscience Data Journal, 2 (2). pp. 83-97. ISSN 2049-6060 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.32

[2] Carrea, L.; Embury, O.; Merchant, C.J. (2015): GloboLakes: high-resolution global limnology dataset v1. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis. doi:10.5285/6be871bc-9572-4345-bb9a-2c42d9d85ceb. http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/6be871bc-9572-4345-bb9a-2c42d9d85ceb

[3] Simis, S.; Mata, A.; Selmes, N.; Carrea, L. (2021) Lake polygons dataset accompanying Calimnos v1.4.0 and ESA CCI Lakes Climate Research Data Package v2.0. zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4899250

[4] Carrea, L.; Crétaux, J.-F.; Liu, X.; Wu, Y.; Bergé-Nguyen, M.; Calmettes, B.; Duguay, C.; Jiang, D.; Merchant, C.J.; Mueller, D.; Selmes, N.; Simis, S.; Spyrakos, E.; Stelzer, K.; Warren, M.; Yesou, H.; Zhang, D. (2022): ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative (Lakes_cci): Lake products, Version 2.0.1. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/03c935c6890c4b2ebf4aae4d84cd9472