Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Data for Seneca, Owasco, and Skaneateles Lakes in Central New York, 2018 to 2020

This data release contains acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data collected during 2018 to 2020 from three open water platforms in the Finger Lakes region of Central New York as part of the Advanced Monitoring Pilot study. Data were collected at Seneca Lake (USGS station number 425027076564401) during 2018, 2019, and 2020; at Owasco Lake (425327076313601) during 2019 and 2020; and at Skaneateles Lake (425606076251601) during 2019. Data are organized by lake and year in child item datasets containing the raw binary data files from the ADCPs as well as tabulated text files of echo intensity, backscatter, velocity, and ancillary data. Tables were created by processing raw data files in R-language oceanographic package OCE (Kelley and others, 2022) and TRDI WinRiver II (Teledyne RD Instruments, 2007). All aggregation, manual magnetic variation calculations, and post-processing were completed using Python libraries pandas (McKinney, 2010) and NumPy (Harris and others, 2020).