The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Reservoir Fisheries Habitat Partnership, combined multiple national databases for the purpose of calculating new morphological metrics for 3,828 reservoirs over 250 acres in surface area. These new metrics include, but are not limited to, shoreline development index, index of basin permanence, development of volume and other descriptive metrics based on established morphometric formulas. The new database also contains modeled chemical metrics from the SPARROW model and physical metrics such as surface area, storage, hydraulic height, etc. Because of the nature of the existing databases used to compile the Reservoir Morphology Database the inherent missing data,...
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