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Title: Cold Water Threat, Great Lakes Region 2017

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 2017

Summary

Cold Water Resource Threat: A measure of vulnerability of Great Lakes watersheds to thermal loading, based on the most influential factors that shape thermal conditions: mean annual air temperature, groundwater discharge potential, surface water extent, and riparian forest cover (weighted and used to develop an environmental index of aquatic resource sensitivity or vulnerability to thermal loadings).The product of the thermal vulnerability and the miles of coldwater streams in a given watershed (mean July temperature of 75 received a score of 1.00. The scale then breaks down as follows: 0.00 = High Threat, 0.33 = Moderate Threat, 0.66 = Low Threat, 1.00 = Extremely Low Threat

Subjects

  • Inland Waters
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-93.213363, -74.513484, 48.112547, 40.39479)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-93.213363, -74.513484, 48.112547, 40.39479)

Provider

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Great Lakes Commission. Cold Water Threat, Great Lakes Region 2017. Polygon data. https://geodata.wisc.edu/catalog/EDA97D31-4AD1-4858-9546-3868CDD2B090

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English