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  • Limnological Data for 17 Alpine Lakes in Banff and Yoho National Parks (Canadian Rocky Mountains) from 2015 to 2022
  • Fischer, Janet M; Franklin & Marshall College
    Olson, Mark H; Franklin & Marshall College
  • 2023-09-11
  • Fischer, J.M. and M.H. Olson. 2023. Limnological Data for 17 Alpine Lakes in Banff and Yoho National Parks (Canadian Rocky Mountains) from 2015 to 2022 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-29).

  • From 2015 to 2022, mid-summer vertical profiles of temperature, chlorophyll a fluorescence, turbidity, and fDOM have been collected in a set of 17 lakes in Banff and Yoho National Parks, Canada. These lakes are located across montane, sub-alpine and alpine ecoregions and they vary widely in elevation (1300-2423 m a.s.l.), surface area (1.5-116 ha) and maximum depth (2.4-39.2 m). In addition, eight of the lakes receive surface and/or groundwater hydrologic inputs from glaciers within the catchment, and the other nine lakes are not glacially-fed. Profiles were collected in each lake within one or two days of an index sampling date between late July and early August using an Exo2 vertical profiling sonde. Measurements were taken at 1 s intervals as the sonde was lowered slowly through the water column, and then averaged over 0.5 m depth intervals.

    Vertical Profile Data are contained in Can_Rocky_Mtn_Lakes_Profiles.csv. Information about study lakes is contained in Can_Rocky_Mtn_Lakes_Site_Information.csv.

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