This data set contains a new monthly estimate of the water balance of the Laurentian Great Lakes, the largest freshwater system on Earth, from 1950 to 2019. The source codes and inputs to derive the new estimates are also included in this dataset.
and ***ADDED 2024-02-27: The component net basins supply data "*NBSC_GLWBData.csv" in "output_ts_posterior.zip" need to be revised for further applications***
Do, H. X., Smith, J. P., Fry, L. M., & Gronewold, A. D. (2020). Seventy-year long record of monthly water balance estimates for Earth’s largest lake system. Scientific Data, 7(1), 276. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00613-z, Gronewold, A. D., Smith, J. P., Read, L., & Crooks, J. L. (2020). Reconciling the water balance of large lake systems. Advances in Water Resources, 103505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103505 , and This version replaces the following deprecated dataset: Do, H.X., Smith, J.P., Fry, L.M., Gronewold, A.D. (2020). Monthly water balance estimates for the Laurentian Great Lakes from 1950 to 2019 [Data set]. University of Michigan - Deep Blue. https://doi.org/10.7302/0rsp-v195