Meteorological and thermal structure data at Lake Janauacá from November 2014 to September 2016

This dataset contains meteorological data, measured and simulated temperature and buoyancy frequency data reported in the paper titled 'Hydrodynamic modeling of stratification and mixing in shallow, tropical floodplain lakes' by Zhou et al.. The meteorological data include time (Time) shortwave radiation (SWin), air temperature (Tair), relative humidity (RH), wind speed (WS), wind direction (WD) and rainfall (Rain) prepared for AEM3D and DYRESM simulations during the periods of field campaigns from November 2014 to September 2016 (Met_campaigns) and data for AEM3D simulations with simulation length extended (Met_extended.nc). Correspondingly, temperature and buoyancy frequency data have been organized into two files, one for the campaign periods (T_N_campaigns.nc) and the other for the extended periods (T_N_extended.nc). Each temperature and buoyancy frequency data file contains time (Time), depth (depth), temperature (T) and buoyancy frequency (N), with measured data marked with 'measured' and simulated data marked with 'aem3d' or 'dyresm'. These data have been directly used to create Fig. 3, 4, 7, 11 in the paper and Fig. S1, S2, S5, S7, S9, S11 and S14 to S17 in the supporting information.