Long-term Chloride Concentrations in North American and European Freshwater Lakes

Overview

Journal Sci Data

Specialty Science

Date 2017 Aug 9

PMID 28786983

Citations 4

Authors

Hilary A Dugan

Jamie C Summers

Nicholas K Skaff

Flora E Krivak-Tetley

Jonathan P Doubek

Samantha M Burke

Sarah L Bartlett

Lauri Arvola

Hamdi Jarjanazi

Janos Korponai

Andreas Kleeberg

Ghislaine Monet

Don Monteith

Karen Moore

Michela Rogora

Paul C Hanson

Kathleen C Weathers

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Abstract

Anthropogenic sources of chloride in a lake catchment, including road salt, fertilizer, and wastewater, can elevate the chloride concentration in freshwater lakes above background levels. Rising chloride concentrations can impact lake ecology and ecosystem services such as fisheries and the use of lakes as drinking water sources. To analyze the spatial extent and magnitude of increasing chloride concentrations in freshwater lakes, we amassed a database of 529 lakes in Europe and North America that had greater than or equal to ten years of chloride data. For each lake, we calculated climate statistics of mean annual total precipitation and mean monthly air temperatures from gridded global datasets. We also quantified land cover metrics, including road density and impervious surface, in buffer zones of 100 to 1,500 m surrounding the perimeter of each lake. This database represents the largest global collection of lake chloride data. We hope that long-term water quality measurements in areas outside Europe and North America can be added to the database as they become available in the future.

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