This repo contains the scripts used in "Widespread global increase in intense lake phytoplankton blooms since the 1980s" (Ho, Michalak, Pahlevan, 2019) published in Nature. Full-text access to a view-only version of the paper is located here, or at this link: http://rdcu.be/bUfIR

Currently, only the Python script for the Google Earth Engine code applied to all lakes are in the repo. See my other repo (GEE_CodeEditorScripts) for the JavaScript GEE code for the bloom detection algorithm(s). The remaining scripts that contain statistical analyses, figure creation, etc. will be added shortly.

Note that the since these analyses were first performed, the Earth Engine Landsat 5 ImageCollection containing the FMask bands were removed, and some modifications to the code will be necessary.

The code in this repo is provided under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. However, if you use the code we request that you contact us at jeffho [at] alumni.stanford.edu and michalak [at] stanford.edu to let us know that, and how, you are using the code.