An expansion of a global data series that enables scientists to explore how the climate crisis impacts the world’s lakes has been released.
This new climate data record – which covers some 2000 lakes across the world –draws on information delivered by numerous international Earth observation missions.
Development of the dataset was coordinated by ESA’s Climate Office, which is based at the agency’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications in the UK.
It was produced as part of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI), a programme that transforms satellite data into robust, long-term lobal datasets for key indicators of climate change known as essential climate variables.