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  1. Temperature and Invertebrate Community Composition at Nearshore Great Lakes Sites, 2013-2016
  2. Water temperature data from the summer of 2015 in Great Lakes bays

Water temperature data from the summer of 2015 in Great Lakes bays

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015-06-01
End Date
2015-09-15

Citation

Larson, J.H., Kennedy, R.J., Evans, M.A., and Bailey, S.W., 2021, Water temperature data from the summer of 2015 in Great Lakes bays: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QSRU0E.

Summary

This dataset contains the recorded water temperatures of specific sites in western Lake Erie, Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron, and Grand Traverse Bay in Lake Michigan during the summer of 2015. Sites with just a number were from Lake Erie. Sites from Grand Traverse Bay have a GTB prefix; Saginaw Bay= SB prefix.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
James H Larson, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Originator :
James H Larson, Robert J Kennedy, Mary A Evans, Sean W Bailey
Metadata Contact :
James H Larson, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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2015Temperature_metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		29.88 KB application/fgdc+xml
GTB1.csv 27.57 KB text/csv
GTB2.csv 32.88 KB text/csv
GTB3.csv 27.47 KB text/csv
GTB4.csv 27.39 KB text/csv
MB1.csv 27.54 KB text/csv
MB2.csv 27.63 KB text/csv
MB3.csv 27.55 KB text/csv
MB4.csv 27.52 KB text/csv
SB1.csv 27.57 KB text/csv
SB2.csv 27.54 KB text/csv
SB3.csv 27.48 KB text/csv
SB4.csv 27.63 KB text/csv
SB5.csv 27.55 KB text/csv
WB1.csv 27.57 KB text/csv
WB2.csv 27.61 KB text/csv
WB4.csv 33.07 KB text/csv
WB5.csv 27.53 KB text/csv
WB6.csv 27.63 KB text/csv

Purpose

The temperature data was collected because of its known association with invertebrate growth. An appropriate use of the data is to detect associations between invertebrate growth and spatial variation in temperature.

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