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

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. An extra file, 'significance.csv', was added in version 2 of this dataset containing the significance (p-value) of slope estimators, where applicable. 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 github.com/aalackner/DOC_catchments. **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 significance.csv: 5137 × 27, 1.21 MB 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.