Thaw Phenology Data of Global Lake and River Ice

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View source: R/iceout-mn.R

The state of Minnesota maintains its own data (going back to 1843 and up to present-day) of ice-out data for inland lakes and ponds. Since the USGS data only covers New England ice-outs, we can use this site to gather data for Minnesota to supplement analyses.

1	read_minnesota_iceout_data(id)

`id`	`<chr>` the MDNR identifier of the body of water. See `read_mdnr_metadata()`.

This function will pull data directly from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources web pages (e.g. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ice_out/index.html?year=1843) to find generate the data links to retrieve the data.

data frame

You get all historical records for a given MDNR id. Identifiers can begin with a 0 so make sure this is a character.

Other online readers: read_maine_iceout_data, read_mdnr_metadata