Windermere Lake Hourly Temperature and Weather Buoy Data, 2008-2011

Hourly measurements of lake temperature at various depths, air temperature, solar irradiance, and wind speed from an automatic monitoring buoy. The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology collected four-minute readings averaged hourly from 2008 to 2011 on Windermere South Basin.

Use Cases

• Model lake temperature stratification dynamics using depth-specific temperature time series.
• Analyze correlations between solar irradiance, air temperature, and surface lake temperature.
• Assess wind speed influence on thermal mixing patterns within the lake's water column.

Strengths

• Data spans four consecutive years (2008-2011) of continuous monitoring.
• High temporal resolution with measurements taken every four minutes and provided as hourly averages.
• Includes multi-depth lake temperature profiles alongside key meteorological variables.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and sample data are unavailable for assessing dataset scale and structure.
• Data is temporally stale, covering a period ending over a decade ago.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Automated measurements from a monitoring buoy, with four-minute readings aggregated into hourly averages.

Time Range

2008 to 2011 inclusive

Freshness

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Geography

Windermere South Basin, a lake in the North West of England, Lake District