This is the interactive HTML 5 Great Lakes Dashboard

The Great Lakes Dashboard
Go to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration webpage Go to the United States Army Corps of Engineers - Detroit District webpage Go to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab webpage Go to the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research webpage Go to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative webpage Go to the Great Lakes Commission webpage
Select Timespan
Select start and end years, then click OK.
About the dashboard

The Great Lakes Dashboard is sponsored by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR), and the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Thanks to Cathy Darnell at GLERL for consultation on graphics, and for earlier inspiration, a special thanks to Mark Phillips, creator of Multigraph.

DISCLAIMER: This page contains links to non-Federal government web sites. They do not constitute endorsement of any product, service, organization, company, information provider, or content.

Monthly water level data presented here are intended for studying the relative fluctuations of Great Lakes water levels and are not for navigational use. References for all data, forecasts, and data products are found by clicking on the settings 'gear' icon in the top right corner, and then clicking on 'Data Information/Download'.

Contact Us

This dashboard was designed for convenience in examining Great Lakes water levels, forecasts, and related variables at a variety of time scales. Please direct questions or feedback to:

NOAA GLERL Data Manager
oar.glerl.data@noaa.gov

How to Use This Tool

This is a draft, beta, HTML5 version of the Great Lakes Dashboard. Because of the technical restraints of web programming, this dashboard has fewer capabilities than the Flash based dashboard (but you can still do quite a bit). Some pointers below:

  • For this dashboard there are 2 tabs labeled 'Variable' and 'By Basin'. The 'Variable' tab allows you to look at data from all lakes for a single variable type (see next bullet on variable types). The 'By Basin' tab allows you to look at multiple variables' data for a single lake. For both modes, there's a drop down menu in the top right region of the chart area to change the variable or target basin.
  • The right hand side has the data menu which you can hide with the '>>' button directly above it. It is a hierarchical, accordion menu, with the levels listed below:
    • Variable (or Axis): 6 currently available (all caps, bold, underlined)
    • Primary Category (underlined, bold)
    • Secondary Category (bold)
    • Data Series ID (normal font)
    Thus, if you are looking at a single variable, such as water levels, you'll want to click on 'WATER LEVELS' to view the available data for that variable.
  • The time slider component is at the bottom of the screen. Click and drag one of the tabs to adjust the visible time range of data. A box indicating your desired range of years will appear over your pointer.
  • To change the visible units between Metric and Imperial, click the 'Metric'/'Imperial' button above the data menu. That button's current label indicates the current type of units displayed on the charts.
  • To view exactly what units are used for the data, hover over or touch the data points to view a data tip.