Wisconsin Lake Temperature Metrics Stable Clarity
type: Dataset
description: It is well recognized that the climate is warming in response to anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases. Over the last decade, this has had a warming effect on lakes. Water clarity is also known to effect water temperature in lakes. What is unclear is how a warming climate might interact with changes in water clarity in lakes. As part of a project at the USGS Office of Water Information, several water clarity scenarios were simulated for lakes in Wisconsin to examine how changing water clarity interacts with climate change to affect lake temperatures at a broad scale. This data set contains the following parameters: year, WBIC, durStrat, max_schmidt_stability, mean_schmidt_stability_JAS, mean_schmidt_stability_July, SthermoD_mean_JAS, SthermoD_mean, lake_average_temp, peak_lake_average_temp, lake_average_temp_JAS, mean_epi_temp, mean_hypo_temp, mean_surf_temp, mean_bottom_temp, peak_surf_temp, peak_bottom_temp, mean_surf_temp_JAS, mean_bottom_temp_JAS, mean_bottom_temp_365, mean_surf_temp_365, mean_1m_temp, mean_surf_JA, GDD_wtr_5c, GDD_wtr_10c, volume_mean_m_3, simulation_length_days, mean_volumetric_temp, kd, out_val calculated for 2210 lakes.
keyword: 007
keyword: 012
keyword: amerigeo
keyword: amerigeoss
keyword: ckan
keyword: climate-change
keyword: environment
keyword: geo
keyword: geoss
keyword: hydrodynamic-model
keyword: inlandwaters
keyword: lakes
keyword: limnology
keyword: national
keyword: north-america
keyword: united-states
keyword: us
keyword: usgs-57473491e4b07e28b663d822
keyword: water-clarity
keyword: water-quality
keyword: water-temperature
keyword: wi
keyword: wisconsin
issued: 2025-11-20T02:41:10.379519
modified: 20200814
theme: {geospatial}
contact point: Organization
  fn: Luke Winslow
spatial: Location

US Migrating
type: Agent

Original Metadata
type: Distribution
description: The metadata original format
media type: text/xml
format: XML
access URL: https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.57473491e4b07e28b663d822.xml
issued: 2022-07-28T21:39:01.809541
modified: 2025-11-20T02:41:10.367303

Digital Data
type: Distribution
description: Landing page for access to the data
media type: application/http
format: XML
access URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7028PN4
issued: 2022-07-28T21:39:01.809553
modified: 2025-11-20T02:41:10.367709