Table 2 Description and naming convention of outputs generated by the L2SWBM.

From: Seventy-year long record of monthly water balance estimates for Earth’s largest lake system

Output

Type

Description

Naming Convention

Filename example

Prior distribution plots (output_plot_prior.zip)

Folder

Multiple PDF files that contain plots of the prior probability distributions of the water balance components

<VAR>PriorCompare_<PriorPeriod>.pdf

evapPriorCompare_19501984.pdf

Data-preview plots (output_plot_preview.zip)

Folder

Multiple PDF files that contain plots of inputs over the analysis period. Each pdf file shows independent data sources for a specific lake over one decade (from decade no. 0 to decade no. n-1, with n = no. of years/10).

<LAKE>TS_Preview_<DECADE No.>_<PROJECTNAME>.pdf

superiorTS_Preview_d0_GLWBData.pdf

Posterior inference plots (output_plot_posterior.zip)

Folder

Multiple PDF files that contain plots of outputs over the analysis period. Each pdf file shows all data for a specific lake over one decade (from decade no. 0 to decade no. n-1, with n = no. of years/10).

<LAKE>TS_ALL_<DECADE No.>_<PROJECTNAME>.pdf

miHuronTS_ALL_d5_GLWBData.pdf

Posterior inference time-series (output_ts_posterior.zip)

Folder

Multiple CSV files that contain monthly inference (2.5, 50 and 97.5 percentile of the MCMC iterations) of each water balance component across each lake over the analysis period.

<LAKE><VAR>_<PROJECTNAME>.csv

erieRunoff_GLWBData.csv

  1. “Naming Convention” field represents the naming convention of individual files within a specific folder (compressed into a zip archive).