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Metadata for Lakes with Water Quality
Description
A dataset containing depth and names for lakes included in the limno module.
Format
A data frame with observations of 8 variables:
lagoslakeid: unique lake identifier developed for LAGOS-NE
nhdid: the 'Permanent_identifier' from the NHD, but is called the NHDID in LAGOS-NE
lagosname1: name of lake from source dataset used as the authoritative lake name for LAGOSNE
meandepth: mean lake depth (meters)
meandepthsource: source of mean depth data, see "lagos_source_program" for definitions
maxdepth: maximum lake depth (meters)
maxdepthsource: source of maximum depth data, see "lagos_source_program" for definitions
legacyid: unique lake identifier from the original water quality source dataset, this is not standardized and each source dataset has its own system
References
Soranno et al. (2017) doi:10.1093/gigascience/gix101Gigascience 6:12