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Daily surface temperature predictions for 185,549 U.S. lakes with associated observations and meteorological conditions (1980-2020)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1980-01-01
End Date
2020-12-31

Citation

Willard, J., Read, J.S., Topp, S.N., Hansen, G.J.A., and Kumar, V., 2022, Daily surface temperature predictions for 185,549 U.S. lakes with associated observations and meteorological conditions (1980-2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CEMS0M.

Summary

Daily lake surface temperatures estimates for 185,549 lakes across the contiguous United States from 1980 to 2020 generated using an entity-aware long short-term memory deep learning model. In-situ measurements used for model training and evaluation are from 12,227 lakes and are included as well as daily meteorological conditions and lake properties. Median per-lake estimated error found through cross validation on lakes with in-situ surface temperature observations was 1.24 °C. The generated dataset will be beneficial for a wide range of applications including estimations of thermal habitats and the impacts of climate change on inland lakes.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jordan S Read
Originator :
Jared Willard, Jordan S Read, Simon N Topp, Gretchen Hansen, Vipin Kumar
Metadata Contact :
Jordan S Read
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Integrated Information Dissemination Division
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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data_release_metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		56.68 KB application/fgdc+xml
lake_surface_temp_obs_preds.csv 45.01 MB text/csv
03_predicted_temp_N24-40_W67-98.nc 1,017.07 MB application/x-netcdf
02_predicted_temp_N40-53_W67-98.nc 1.03 GB application/x-netcdf
01_predicted_temp_N24-53_W98-126.nc 1.1 GB application/x-netcdf
lake_metadata.csv 26.44 MB text/csv
03_weather_N24-40_W67-98.nc 1.15 GB application/x-netcdf
02_weather_N40-53_W67-98.nc 947.48 MB application/x-netcdf
01_weather_N24-53_W98-126.nc 1.57 GB application/x-netcdf

Purpose

This dataset is well suited as a research complement to the fields of fisheries biology, limnology, climate change science, and aquatic invasive species research. The temperature predictions included here can be inputs to other models where water temperature is required.

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  • Midwest CASC
  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • USGS Data Release Products

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9CEMS0M

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