A gif of surface temperatures for 185,549 lakes using data from Willard et al. 2022. The data are sourced from ScienceBase using the sbtools package for R, and placed in a subdirectory, in/.
This gif is created using a pipeline with the targets library for R. It takes approximately 3 hours to build the gif.
To run the pipeline run tar_make() in the console. The final gif is created using system calls to magick and gifsicle, and will require that they are installed on your computer to work.