LakeCat Metrics and Definitions
Below is a list of the metrics included with LakeCat.
- Metric Name - Short name of variables as stored in data tables.
- Description - Brief definition of the metric.
- Metric Category: Category of StreamCat metric.
- Dataset Name: The name of the dataset the StreamCat metric belongs to.
- Available AOIs: Variables referenced to as Areas of Interest or AOIs.
- Variables with Cat appended to names are local catchment-level metrics.
- Variables with Ws appended to names are full watershed metrics.
- Available Years: Specific years data was gathered for the metric.
- Units - Unit of measurement.
- Data Source - Organization/Source that the metric data is derived/downloaded from, with the date most recently obtained.
- Download a file of the table below - LakeCat Variable List (csv) [placeholder]
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