Developing a Stochastic Hydrological Model for Informing Lake Water Level Drawdown Management

This data release consists of four datasets which were used for evaluating winter drawdown (WD) lakes to follow the Massachusetts general WD guidelines. The first dataset ("Water level observations.csv") provides water level monitoring data of 21 (18 WD and 3 non-WD) recreational lakes in Massachusetts from 2014 to 2018. The water levels were measured by paired nonvented pressure transducers (HOBO U20L-01) and processed by ContDataQC package to remove potential inaccurate observations. For better comparison between lakes, the water level was relativized to each lake's normal pool level. This dataset was used for understanding the hydrology of WD and non-WD lakes and validating the hydrological model that we developed for WD lakes. [...]