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Daily mean air temperature data for the North American Great Lakes based on coastal weather stations; 1897-2023 (NCEI Accession 0291722)

This dataset contains a record of daily mean air temperature for each of the U.S. Great Lakes from January 1, 1897 to October 22, 2023. These temperatures were derived using the following method. Daily maximum and minimum air temperature data were obtained from the Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily (GHCNd, Menne, et al. 2012) and the Great Lakes Air Temperature/Degree Day Climatology, 1897-1983 (Assel et al. 1995). Daily air temperature was calculated by taking a simple average of daily maximum and minimum air temperature. Following Cohn et al. (2021), a total of 24 coastal locations along the Great Lakes were selected. These 24 locations had relatively consistent station data records since the 1890s. Each of the selected locations had multiple weather stations in their proximity covering the historical period from 1890s to 2023, representing the weather conditions around the location. For most of the locations, datasets from multiple stations in the proximity of each location were combined to create a continuous data record from the 1890s to 2023. When doing so, data consistency was verified by comparing the data during the period when station datasets overlap. This procedure resulted in almost continuous timeseries, except for a few locations that still had temporal gaps of one to several days. Any temporal data gap less than 10 days in the combined timeseries were filled based on the linear interpolation. This resulted in completely continuous timeseries for all the locations. Average daily air temperature was calculated from by simply making an average of timeseries data from corresponding locations around each lake. This resulted in daily air temperature records for all five Great Lakes (Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario).

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Title Daily mean air temperature data for the North American Great Lakes based on coastal weather stations; 1897-2023 (NCEI Accession 0291722)
Description This dataset contains a record of daily mean air temperature for each of the U.S. Great Lakes from January 1, 1897 to October 22, 2023. These temperatures were derived using the following method. Daily maximum and minimum air temperature data were obtained from the Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily (GHCNd, Menne, et al. 2012) and the Great Lakes Air Temperature/Degree Day Climatology, 1897-1983 (Assel et al. 1995). Daily air temperature was calculated by taking a simple average of daily maximum and minimum air temperature. Following Cohn et al. (2021), a total of 24 coastal locations along the Great Lakes were selected. These 24 locations had relatively consistent station data records since the 1890s. Each of the selected locations had multiple weather stations in their proximity covering the historical period from 1890s to 2023, representing the weather conditions around the location. For most of the locations, datasets from multiple stations in the proximity of each location were combined to create a continuous data record from the 1890s to 2023. When doing so, data consistency was verified by comparing the data during the period when station datasets overlap. This procedure resulted in almost continuous timeseries, except for a few locations that still had temporal gaps of one to several days. Any temporal data gap less than 10 days in the combined timeseries were filled based on the linear interpolation. This resulted in completely continuous timeseries for all the locations. Average daily air temperature was calculated from by simply making an average of timeseries data from corresponding locations around each lake. This resulted in daily air temperature records for all five Great Lakes (Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario).
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Keywords 0291722 , AIR TEMPERATURE , thermometer , in situ , University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research , University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research , climatology , Advancing understanding of interannual variability and extreme events in the thermal structure of large lakes under historical and future climate scenarios , Great Lakes Earth System Modeling , EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE , THERMOMETERS > THERMOMETERS , WEATHER STATIONS > WEATHER STATIONS , CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CANADA > GREAT LAKES, CANADA , CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > GREAT LAKES , environment , climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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