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    • Lake and landscape dataset used for analyses in Natural and anthropogenic controls on lake water-level decline and evaporation-to-inflow ratio in the conterminous US study-Fergus Limnology and Oceanography 2022

    Metadata Updated: August 22, 2022

    Lake and landscape data were compiled from the US Environmental Protection Agency National Lakes Assessment 2007 and 2012 surveys and LakeCat geospatial dataset. Additional climate variables were summarized from national PRISM and NOAA data layers following the same geoprocessing steps used in the LakeCat creation. The compiled dataset includes a derived metric that characterizes the degree of human-related water management presence on a lake that has the potential to significantly alter lake hydrology. The HydrAP metric (anthropogenic hydrological-alteration potential) uses information from the National Inventory of Dams and National Land Cover Database and is described in detail in Fergus et al. 2021.

    The compiled dataset includes all lake sites in the NLA 2007 survey and only new lake sites in NLA 2012 (i.e., not resampled lake sites during the two survey periods). We retained VISIT_NO = 1 observations for the analyses for a total of 1716 observations for unique lake sites distributed across the conterminous US.

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    Metadata Created Date August 22, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2022

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 22, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2022
    Publisher U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
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    Identifier https://doi.org/10.23719/1526381
    Data Last Modified 2022-04-28
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    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Environmental Protection Agency > U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
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