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Streamflow Magnitude, Water Temperature, and Water Chemistry in Robinson Forest, Breathitt County, Kentucky (1971-2018)

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Start Date
1971-01-01
End Date
2018-12-31

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Sena, K.L., Barton, C.D, and Williamson, T.N., 2020, Streamflow Magnitude, Water Temperature, and Water Chemistry in Robinson Forest, Breathitt County, Kentucky (1971-2018): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FPLG1O.

Summary

Robinson Forest, in eastern Kentucky, is a research forest owned and operated by the University of Kentucky (UK) since the 1920s. The UK Department of Forestry and Natural Resources began collecting streamflow and water-chemistry data in the forest starting with weirs at Falling Rock and Little Millseat in 1971, and supplemented by weirs at Coles Fork and Clemons Fork in 1973. This digital dataset includes information about how and where these data were collected, and how these data were processed. These data include streamflow, water temperature, and water chemistry (turbidity, chloride, nitrates, sulfates, ammonium, pH, alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, conductivity, total organic carbon, and phosphates), and were [...]

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Table_1_Site_Information_streams.csv 261 Bytes text/csv
Table_2_Clemons.csv 2.09 MB text/csv
Table_3_Coles.csv 2.16 MB text/csv
Table_4_FR.csv 2.2 MB text/csv
Table_5_LM.csv 2.2 MB text/csv

Purpose

The objectives of this long-term project were to provide researchers with data necessary to evaluate long-term patterns in atmospheric deposition, particularly with respect to species of concern in acid rain (e.g., sulfates and nitrates), as well as to characterize historical streamflow, water-temperature, and water-chemistry patterns in minimally-impaired forest in the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky, USA.

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