An operational analysis of Lake Surface Water Temperature

Emma K. Fiedler; Matthew J. Martin; Jonah Roberts-Jones

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v66.21247

An operational analysis of Lake Surface Water Temperature

Tellus

Volume 66 (2014): Issue 1

By: Emma K. Fiedler, Matthew J. Martin and Jonah Roberts-Jones

Open Access

|Dec 2014

Abstract

Operational analyses of Lake Surface Water Temperature (LSWT) have many potential uses including improvement of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models on regional scales. In November 2011, LSWT was included in the Met Office Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Ice Analysis (OSTIA) product, for 248 lakes globally. The OSTIA analysis procedure, which has been optimised for oceans, has also been used for the lakes in this first version of the product. Infra-red satellite observations of lakes and in situ measurements are assimilated. The satellite observations are based on retrievals optimised for Sea Surface Temperature (SST) which, although they may introduce inaccuracies into the LSWT data, are currently the only near-real-time information available. The LSWT analysis has a global root mean square difference of 1.31 K and a mean difference of 0.65 K (including a cool skin effect of 0.2 K) compared to independent data from the ESA ARC-Lake project for a 3-month period (June to August 2009). It is demonstrated that the OSTIA LSWT is an improvement over the use of climatology to capture the day-to-day variation in global lake surface temperatures.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v66.21247 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 21247 - 21247

Submitted on: Apr 26, 2013

Accepted on: Jun 6, 2014

Published on: Dec 1, 2014

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

LSWT,

OSTIA,

satellite,

in situ,

near-real-time

© 2014 Emma K. Fiedler, Matthew J. Martin, Jonah Roberts-Jones, published by Stockholm University Press
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