[
  {
    "field":"dataset",
    "description":"Great Salt Lake daily lake-balance dataset (2003\u20132025)"
  },
  {
    "field":"time_basis",
    "description":"Daily values organized by water-year chronology; the record begins 2002-10-01 (start of WY2003) and runs through the 2025 water year"
  },
  {
    "field":"date",
    "description":"Daily observation date"
  },
  {
    "field":"evapotranspiration_in",
    "description":"Daily evapotranspiration estimate (inches) from the KSLC Hargreaves-Samani climate series"
  },
  {
    "field":"precipitation_in",
    "description":"Daily precipitation (inches) from the KSLC climate series"
  },
  {
    "field":"south_arm_elevation_ft_ngvd29",
    "description":"Daily South Arm elevation referenced to NGVD29"
  },
  {
    "field":"north_arm_elevation_ft_ngvd29",
    "description":"Daily North Arm elevation referenced to NGVD29"
  },
  {
    "field":"south_arm_area_ac",
    "description":"South Arm surface area (acres) derived from Casey-Root bathymetry at the daily South Arm elevation"
  },
  {
    "field":"south_arm_volume_af",
    "description":"South Arm volume (acre-feet) derived from Casey-Root bathymetry at the daily South Arm elevation"
  },
  {
    "field":"north_arm_area_ac",
    "description":"North Arm surface area (acres) derived from Casey-Root bathymetry at the daily North Arm elevation"
  },
  {
    "field":"north_arm_volume_af",
    "description":"North Arm volume (acre-feet) derived from Casey-Root bathymetry at the daily North Arm elevation"
  },
  {
    "field":"hydromapper_total_area_ac",
    "description":"Hydromapper-style total lake area (acres) including South Arm + North Arm only, as carried in the source file"
  },
  {
    "field":"hydromapper_total_volume_af",
    "description":"Hydromapper-style total lake volume (acre-feet) including South Arm + North Arm only, as carried in the source file"
  },
  {
    "field":"bear_river_corinne_cfs",
    "description":"Daily Bear River flow at Corinne (cfs)"
  },
  {
    "field":"weber_river_plain_city_cfs",
    "description":"Daily Weber River flow near Plain City (cfs)"
  },
  {
    "field":"farmington_bay_cfs",
    "description":"Daily Farmington Bay inflow gage value (cfs); incomplete in early years"
  },
  {
    "field":"goggin_drain_cfs",
    "description":"Daily Goggin Drain inflow gage value (cfs); incomplete in early years"
  },
  {
    "field":"terminal_flow_cfs",
    "description":"Daily terminal inflow flow value as carried in the source file"
  },
  {
    "field":"lake_precipitation_af",
    "description":"Daily direct precipitation volume on the lake surface (acre-feet) as carried in the source file"
  },
  {
    "field":"lake_evaporation_af",
    "description":"Daily lake evaporation volume (acre-feet) as carried in the source file"
  },
  {
    "field":"source_note",
    "description":"This cleaned dataset is a standardized version of the source file used to build the 2003\u20132025 storage change table"
  },
  {
    "field":"missing_data",
    "description":"Blank values indicate unavailable source observations; no interpolation is applied in this cleaned file"
  },
  {
    "field":"system_alignment",
    "description":"Column names are standardized to align with the climate, streamflow, elevation, and bathymetry datasets used elsewhere on gslaccounting.org"
  }
]