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SUBMITTER: Smejkalova T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5141450 | biostudies-other | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Šmejkalová Tereza T Edwards Mary E ME Dash Jadunandan J
Scientific reports 20161207
The timing of the seasonal freeze-thaw cycle of arctic lakes affects ecological processes and land-atmosphere energy fluxes. We carried out detailed ice-phenology mapping of arctic lakes, based on daily surface-reflectance time series for 2000-2013 from MODIS at 250 m spatial resolution. We used over 13,300 lakes, area >1 km<sup>2</sup>, in five study areas distributed evenly across the circumpolar Arctic - the first such phenological dataset. All areas showed significant trends towards an earli ...[more]