Catchment characteristics and water chemistry of over 5000 nationally monitored Swedish lakes

This dataset contains data for catchment characteristics and lake water chemistry for lakes in the Swedish Lake Survey, SLS (omdrevstationer), and trend lake (trendlakestationer) monitoring programs. Both surveys, the Swedish Lake Survey and the trend lake survey, are compiled at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) as part of the university's environmental monitoring and assessment programme Lakes and Watercourses. This makes up a dataset of 5140 lakes (110 of which are trend lakes monitored 4 times a year and 5030 survey lakes monitored every 6 years, some lakes are in both programs), all >1 ha in lake area. For each of these programs this dataset includes (1) time series of water chemistry for all the stations, (2) shapefile with the catchment delineation and station coordinates, and (3) a file summarizing catchment characteristics. Catchment characteristics include land cover, soil depth, peat coverage, ditch density, ditch density in peat areas, NDVI, lake water chemistry, atmospheric deposition, precipitation, temperature, precipitation as snow, percentage above the high coast line, and runoff. This dataset also includes the code used to extract the data used to generate this time series and characteristics. As such this data can be reproduced, and extended from the information contained in the dataset. The following files are included in the dataset: **Documentation** readme_overview.md: An overview of what the dataset contains (further elaborated in readme_data.md) and how it was generated (further elaborated in readme_code.md). readme_data.md: Documentation of the final datasets files, including units, reference to the code used to generate, and original data source. readme_code.md: Documentation of the code and functions used to generate the dataset. A static version can be found in the dataset as git_freeze and a live version of the code can be found at https://github.com/aalackner/DOC_catchmentsOpens in a new tab. **Data** chemistry_SLS.csv: 14107 x 46, 4.8MB chemistry_trend.csv: 16018 x 46, 5.1MB characteristics_SLS.csv: 5030 x 81, 6MB characteristics_trend.csv: 110 x 93, 0.16MB SLS.zip: 6194 polygons, 20MB trend.zip: 111 polygons, 0.3MB etc.zip: 114 MB etc.zip is a folder with additional timeseries data used in the calculation of characteristics.