Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database

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).

Citation

Benson, B., J. Magnuson, and S. Sharma. 2000, updated 2013. Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database, Version 1. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.7265/N5W66HP8. [Date Accessed].

Data access

There are at least two alternative pages for data access

• http://nsidc.org/data/lake_river_ice/freezethaw.html
• https://nsidc.org/data/g01377

Data download and preparation

source ~/proyectos/CES/cesdata/env/project-env.sh


DPATH=cryosphere/global
DNAME=LIAG_Ice

mkdir -p $GISDATA/$DPATH/$DNAME/
cd $GISDATA/$DPATH/$DNAME/


## download complete table:
wget ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/DATASETS/NOAA/G01377/liag_freeze_thaw_table.csv
wget ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/DATASETS/NOAA/G01377/liag_physical_character_table.csv

## or, if downloaded using the form at
##  http://nsidc.org/data/lake_river_ice/freezethaw.html
## mv ~/Downloads/liag_ice.csv.gz .
## mv ~/Downloads/liag_info.csv.gz .
## cd $WORKDIR
## cp $GISDATA/monitoring/LIAG_Ice/liag_ice.csv.gz .
## gunzip liag_ice.csv.gz

Notes

• Only data contributed by members of LIAG, thus no data from southern hemisphere, Alaska, etc.
• Apparently last updated in 2013