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Historical Landsat-Derived Water Surface Temperature for Three Large Alaska Rivers 1984-2022

Data Download Links Below | AK Science Portal | Date Range: 5/1/1984 - 10/15/2022

This data package includes 17,014 pairs of raster geotiffs. Each pair is made up of two geotiff rasters derived from historical observations from Landsat satellites (04-09) over the Yukon, Kuskokwim, and Tanana rivers in Alaska. One raster reports estimated mid-day water surface temperature (ST) in degrees Celsius (deg_Cc). The second raster reports the surface temperature quality assessment (sST_QA_c) and provides the ST product uncertainty (also in degrees). The period of observation is May through October for the years 1984-2022.

Data sets included:

Kuskokwim River Metadata Data (452MB)
Tanana River Metadata Data (615MB)
Yukon River Metadata Data (3.49GB)

Author(s): Baughman, C. A.

Suggested Citation:
Baughman, C. A., 2024, Historical Landsat-derived water surface temperature for three large Alaska rivers 1984-2022: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MCNPGK.

Referenced Publication(s):

Baughman, C. A. and J. S. Conaway. 2021. Comparison of historical water temperature measurements with landsat analysis ready data provisional surface temperature estimates for the Yukon River in Alaska. Remote Sensing 13(12):2394. doi:10.3390/rs13122394


DataID: 645 | doi:10.5066/P9MCNPGK | Date Posted Online: 2024-02-26 | Last Updated: 2024-02-26 17:01:30

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