Spectacle Reef Light: Realtime Coastal Observation Network (ReCON) Station

Sea Surface Temperature Ocean surface stress Ocean surface heat flux

The Spectacle Reef eddy covariance and meteorological station is maintained by the University of Colorado-Boulder and located 28 miles east of Mackinaw City, Michigan on Lake Huron. The station is part of the Great Lakes Evaporation Network (GLEN), which was established to improve observations of over-lake meteorology and evaporation, to use these observations to provide more accurate projections of Great Lakes water levels, and to support a variety of stakeholders, including the National Weather Service (NWS), U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard, recreational boaters and commercial shipping, emergency management officials, and the Great Lakes research community.

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Temporal extent	2016-09-10 – 2026-11-03
Date (creation)	2026-11-04
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, GLOS, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
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