lake levels
Water body depths
Lake levels refers to the height of water in a lake, typically measured against a fixed reference point.
Levels fluctuate with rainfall, snowmelt, evaporation, and human management of dams and outlets.
Monitoring lake levels matters for drinking water supply, recreation, shipping, and ecosystem health: Lake levels are at historic lows this summer.
The term usually appears in plural even when discussing a single lake.
- waterClear essential liquid
- water tableTop of groundwater zone
- reservoirLarge water storage basin
- depthDistance below surface
- shorelineLand-water boundary
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- hydrology mappingflood zones, water bodies, surface water, hydrography, water storage
- hydrologyrivers, streamflow, aquifers, aquifer, watershed
- environmental dataair quality index, climate data, weather data, temperature rise, greenhouse gases
- Great Salt Lakebrine shrimp, salt flats, hypersaline, salinity, Jordan River
- water cyclewater cycle, precipitation, evaporation, condensation, rain
- lake hydrologythermocline, stratification, turnover, inflow, outflow
lake levelsdry lakebed
Evaporated basin floor
desiccation · dried lake · drought conditions · empty reservoir · water scarcity
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