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Fig. 1: Detections of ‘land’ from Fmask over open water are rare.
Fig. 2: The average cloud-free area is large in the L5TM images used in Ho et al.1 study lakes, and the percentage of usable images is therefore also high.

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  1. Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA

    Jeff C. Ho & Anna M. Michalak

  2. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Jeff C. Ho

  3. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Nima Pahlevan

  4. Science Systems and Applications Inc., Lanham, MD, USA

    Nima Pahlevan

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J.C.H. and A.M.M. designed the research and analysed the results. J.C.H. and A.M.M. wrote the response with input from N.P. J.C.H. performed the majority of the computations with input from A.M.M.

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Ho, J.C., Michalak, A.M. & Pahlevan, N. Reply to: Concerns about phytoplankton bloom trends in global lakes. Nature 590, E48–E50 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03255-2

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