lake_csv

lake.csv

The file lake.csv records a daily summary of lake water and heat fluxes, plus other relevant metrics. The columns in the lake.csv file are outlined below:

Column details:

CLASS	NAME	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
var	Volume	m3	Total lake volume
var	Vol Snow	m3	Total snow volume
var	Vol Blue Ice	m3	Total blue-ice volume
var	Vol White Ice	m3	Total white-ice volume
var	Tot Inflow Vol	m3/day	Total Inflow volume
var	Tot Outflow Vol	m3/day	Total Outflow volume
var	Overflow Vol	m3/day	Overflow volume
var	Evaporation	m3/day	Evaporation volume
var	Rain	m3/day	Rain volume
var	Local Runoff	m3/day	Local runoff volume
var	Snowfall	m3/day	Snowfall volume
var	Lake Level	m	Lake surface height
var	Surface Area	m2	Lake surface area
var	Blue Ice Thickness	m	Blue-ice layer thickness
var	Snow Thickness	m	Snow layer thickness
var	Snow Density	kg/m3	Snow layer mean density
var	White Ice Thickness	m	White-ice layer thickness
var	Albedo	-	Lake surface albedo (daily mean)
var	Max Temp	celsius	Maximum temperature within lake
var	Min Temp	celsius	Minimum temperature within lake
var	Surface Temp	celsius	Surface temperature
var	Daily Qsw	W/m2	Daily mean shortwave radiation
var	Daily Qe	W/m2	Daily mean latent heat flux (evaporation)
var	Daily Qh	W/m2	Daily mean sensible heat flux
var	Daily Qlw	W/m2	Daily mean longwave radiation flux (net)
var	Light	unknown	Light
var	Benthic Light	unknown	Benthic Light
var	Surface Wave Height	m	Surface Wave Height
var	Surface Wave Length	m	Surface Wave Length
var	Surface Wave Period	s	Surface Wave Period
var	Lake Number	unknown	Lake Number
var	Max dT/dz	C/m	Max difference in temp between two layers
var	CD	-	Coefficient of wind momentum flux (drag)
var	CHE	-	Coefficient of wind scalar flux (H and E)
var	z_L	-	M-O atmospheric stability length-scale