Ice cover data for Falling Creek Reservoir, Vinton, Virginia, USA for 2013-2019

Ice cover was recorded at Falling Creek Reservoir (Vinton, Virginia,
USA) using multiple methods in 2013-2019. Falling Creek Reservoir is
owned and operated by the Western Virginia Water Authority as a
primary drinking water source for Roanoke, Virginia, and is one of the
southernmost waterbodies in the United States that exhibits ice cover
during the winter. Given incipient climate change, Falling Creek
Reservoir's ice cover data represents an important record of warming
for waterbodies in the southeastern United States. Ice cover presence
was assessed using multiple methods: visual observation of ice
spanning the deep hole (from an observer standing on the reservoir's
dam); water temperature data from sensors deployed at the reservoir's
deepest site; and upwelling shortwave radiation from a meteorological
station deployed on a metal structure that is located over the
reservoir's deep hole.