Data and Scripts Associated with the Manuscript “Yakima River Basin Water Column Respiration is a Minor Component of River Ecosystem Respiration”

This data package is associated with the publication “Yakima River Basin Water Column Respiration is a Minor Component of River Ecosystem Respiration” submitted to EGU Biogeochemistry (Fulton et al. 2023). In this research, water column respiration (ERwc) data, surface water chemistry data, organic matter (OM) chemistry data, and publicly available geospatial data were used in a multiple linear regression model to evaluate the drivers of spatial variability in ERwc at 47 sites across the Yakima River basin in Washington, USA.The data package includes the data inputs, and outputs, and R scripts to calculate descriptive statistics, run the multiple linear regression models, analyze, and interpret the results, and create manuscript figures. The data package is comprised of three main folders (Code, Data, and Figures). The Code folder is comprised of five analysis-specific subfolders that contain the R scripts to perform the analyses described in the publication and create publication figures. The Data folder is comprised of six subfolders that contain R script-specific data input and output files. Related code and data subfolders use the same naming convention to easily identify the data input files associated with each R script. The Figures folder includes three map figures from the manuscript in “.pdf” and “.png” format. This data package also includes a file-level metadata (flmd) csv, and a data dictionary (dd) csv, and readme pdf. Please see “Fulton_2024_Water_Column_Respiration_Data_Package_flmd.csv” for a list of all files contained in the data package, along with descriptions for each for each file. The data dictionary (Fulton_2024_Water_Column_Respiration_Data_Package_dd.csv) describes the column headers within any tabular data file (e.g., csv). The readme (readme_Fulton_2024_Water_Column_Respiration_Data_Package.csv) describes the data package, methods, critical details, etc. This data package is associated with a GitHub repository which can be found at https://github.com/river-corridors-sfa/YRB_Water_Column_Respiration/.