Published September 10, 2025 | Version v2
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Laurentian Great Lakes Daily and Monthly Runoff (1951-2013)

Description

This repository contains daily and monthly runoff datasets for the Laurentian Great Lakes region from 1951-2013 created using a regional LSTM. The repository has two sets of data: 

(1) Daily runoff for 656 gauges in the U.S. and Canda (units: m3/sec)

(2) Monthly lake-wide aggregated runoff for Lakes Erie, Superior, Ontario, Michigan-Huron, St. Clair (units: mm/month)

Details on how these datasets were created can be found in: 

Gupta, R.S., Wi, S., Steinschneider,S. Machine Learning-Based Reconstructions of Historical Daily and Monthly Runoff for the Laurentian Great Lakes Region (in review).

A readme can be found at: https://github.com/rg727/gupta_etal_2025_scientific_data

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Additional details

Funding

U.S. National Science Foundation
Global Centers Track 1: Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters 2330317

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/rg727/gupta_etal_2025_scientific_data
Programming language
Python
Development Status
Active