Great Salt Lake Salinity, Climate, and Inflow Data


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Owners: Diana Dunn
Type: Resource
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Created: Aug 01, 2024 at 4:19 p.m.
Last updated: Mar 31, 2025 at 12:50 p.m.
Published date: Mar 31, 2025 at 12:50 p.m.
DOI: 10.4211/hs.438b751c1ff84555a36592345fcfa6b7
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Abstract

This resource includes a salinity dataset for the Great Salt Lake that was compiled from all publicly available datasets and Great Salt Lake data pertaining to: evaporation, river inflow, and UPRR causeway bridge exchange flows. It also includes data collected during an experiment performed at the Utah Water Research Laboratory used to develop an equation to convert specific conductance to salinity; derived specifically for Great Salt Lake ion composition and salt concentration. This resource is part of a study "Seasonal Water and Salt Cycling in the Great Salt Lake after Opening the New Causeway Breach" which compiled and analyzed available salinity data and evaluated primary drivers of salinity change at the Great Salt Lake including: evaporation, causeway bridge bi-directional flow exchange, river inflow, and evaporation. The analysis was performed from January 2017 to September 2023.

Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Great Salt Lake
North Latitude
41.7329°
East Longitude
-111.6297°
South Latitude
40.6208°
West Longitude
-113.2282°

Temporal

Start Date: 10/13/2016
End Date: 02/12/2024
Leaflet Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

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Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University
Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands

How to Cite

Dunn, D. (2025). Great Salt Lake Salinity, Climate, and Inflow Data, HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.438b751c1ff84555a36592345fcfa6b7

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