Windermere South Basin Lake And Atmospheric Hourly Measurements 2012-2015

Hourly lake temperature, air temperature, solar irradiance, and wind speed data from an automatic monitoring buoy on Windermere South Basin. Measurements were taken every 4 minutes and aggregated as hourly averages by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology between 2012 and 2015.

Use Cases

• Model lake temperature profiles at various depths against air temperature and solar irradiance to study thermal stratification.
• Analyze correlations between hourly wind speed data and surface lake temperature fluctuations.
• Use the four-year time series of solar irradiance and air temperature to validate regional climate models.

Strengths

• Hourly temporal resolution derived from 4-minute measurements provides detailed intra-day variation.
• Four-year continuous time series from 2012 to 2015 enables seasonal and inter-annual trend analysis.
• Includes multi-parameter measurements: lake temperature at depths, air temperature, solar irradiance, and wind speed.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column count, and data completeness metrics are unknown from the provided input.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single buoy location in Windermere South Basin, reducing spatial generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre, collected by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Collection Method

Automated measurements from a monitoring buoy, aggregated from 4-minute readings to hourly averages.

Time Range

2012 to 2015 inclusive.

Freshness

Data collection ended in 2015; the dataset is historical for that period.

Geography

Windermere South Basin, a lake in North West England.