“…The following publicly‐available data sets were used in this analysis: HydroLAKES (Messager et al., 2016) from the World Wildlife Fund; GSW (Pekel et al., 2016) from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre; BAWLD (Olefeldt et al., 2021a) and BAWLD‐CH4 (Kuhn et al., 2021a) from the National Science Foundation Arctic Data Center; WBD (Feng & Sui, 2020) from the Chinese National Tibetan Plateau/Third Pole Environment Data Center, available in English; LEV (Kyzivat et al., 2021) from the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC); HR lakes (Kyzivat et al., 2019a; Mullen et al., 2022; Muster et al., 2017a) from ORNL DAAC, ORNL DAAC, and PANGEA, respectively; and ERA5 (Muñoz Sabater, 2019) from Copernicus Climate Change Service Climate Data Store. New data and a python toolbox generated for this manuscript are archived in the Arctic Data Center (Kyzivat & Smith, 2023).…”