Basic description
We developed a satellite-based dataset of global freshwater lake algal blooms from 2003 to 2022, covering 1,956 large lakes and reservoirs , each larger than 50 km². The dataset was derived from global daily observations at 1-km resolution from the MODIS onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite, using all 0.8 million images acquired between 2003 and 2022.
Data download
The dataset is publicly available at this lab webpage via the following links: https://zenodo.org/records/14799491
Related Publications
Ying Wang, Dan Zhao, R Iestyn Woolway, Haoran Yan, Hans W Paerl, Yi Zheng, Chunmiao Zheng, Lian Feng, Global elevation of algal bloom frequency in large lakes over the past two decades, National Science Review, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2025, nwaf011, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf011