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Stage-Volume-Area Table for Malheur Lake, Oregon, 2021

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Freed, T.Z., Smith, C.D., and Craver, D., 2021, Stage-Volume-Area Table for Malheur Lake, Oregon, 2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P96VJVRQ.

Summary

Malheur Lake is a vast, shallow lake in eastern Oregon. The lake is within the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and serves as an important stop and breeding ground along the Pacific flyway for migratory ducks and geese. The bottom of the lake is fairly uniform and there are very few topographic features. A small vertical increase in lake stage may result in a large change in area or volume. The dataset includes a Microsoft Excel workbook, a comma-separated values file, a shapefile, and metadata. The Microsoft Excel workbook has two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet contains the final stage/volume/area table for the area of interest in Malheur Lake. This first spreadsheet is also included in the data release as a comma-separated [...]

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DEM_AoI.zip
“Area of Interest shapefile”
1.85 KB application/zip
Malheur_Lake_SVA.xlsx
“Stage-Volume-Area Microsoft Excel workbook”
17.11 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Final_StageVolArea.csv
“Final Stage-Volume-Area comma-separated values file”
939 Bytes text/csv

Purpose

The dataset was created to calculate how the volume of the lake and the extent of wetland areas respond to changing water levels in the lake. These data can be used to assist resource and conservation practitioners that manage water quality, water quantity, and wildlife habitat in the basin.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P96VJVRQ

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