AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Topographic points surveyed in 2018-19 for step-backwater analysis, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

This data release provides topographic (horizontal and vertical) data for 58 sites, surveyed March 12, 2018 to July 18, 2019 as part of documentation of flooding that occurred in Puerto Rico during and after Hurricane Maria (September to November 2017). Hurricane Maria made landfall on the Island of Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 and was one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel conducted topographic surveys at selected stream sites for hydraulic modeling studies to establish new stage-discharge relations for sites at which flooding substantially changed the pre-existing relation. The standard-step hydraulic method, often referred to as the step-backwater method, is a widely accepted and easily applied one-dimensional hydraulic model to determine (theoretical) water-surface elevations at a location of interest for specified streamflows. This method is mostly used by the USGS to develop rating curves at streamgage sites either at newly installed streamgages or sites where the channel morphology has changed, and the previously-established rating curve is no longer applicable.

Tags: caribbean, controlled-flooding, eastern-caribbean, elevation, field-inventory-and-monitoring, flooding, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, gps-measurement, hurricane-maria, hurricanes, land-surveying, peak-discharge, puerto-rico, river-reaches, rivers, storms, stream-discharge, topographic-survey, tropical-cyclones-hurricanes-and-typhoons, usgs-611e5329d34e40dd9c019697
Organization: Department of the Interior
Helicopter-based videos collected in the Upper Colorado Integrated Water Science Basin, Colorado River at Windy Gap study site, June 13, 2022

A Bell 407 helicopter with a gyro-stabilized gimbal was used to collect aerial videos of Upper Colorado River Water Science Basin (IWS) riverine study sites in 2022.  Videos were collected using both natural color and thermal infrared cameras. These videos were used to determine the feasibility of estimating river surface velocity using aerial imagery.

Tags: environment, remote-sensing, streamflow, usgs-63fcdddcd34e4f7eda466bb2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 5452 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b631b6ae4b006a11f7178b8, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Interpolated groundwater-level surface, spring 2017, Bazile Groundwater Management Area, northeastern Nebraska

This data set is a raster that represents the groundwater-level surface within the Bazile Groundwater Management Area (BGMA) in spring of 2017.  This raster was created for use within the Geoscene3D program (I-GIS, 2020) which combines airborne electromagnetic geophysical data along with supporting information for visualization and geological modeling.  A water-level surface was created as input to a Geoscene3D project created for the BGMA.  The water-level surface was created using 58 water-levels measured from January to June of 2017 to represent water-level conditions prior to the onset of seasonal groundwater irrigation.  The distribution of water-levels provided adequate coverage to the Bazile Groundwater Management area; however, high relief areas near Verdigre Creek and Bazile Creek are not adequately covered.  In an effort to create a water-level surface map that is representative of the entire BGMA, water-level contours representing 1995 water levels first were compared to discreet spring 2017 water levels. The 1995 water-levels were published by the University of Nebraska Lincoln Conservation and Survey Division.  These datasets were imported into ArcGIS as shapefiles.  In general, water levels from both datasets were similar; however, two water levels from shallow wells located within the glaciated part of the BGMA were removed from the spring 2017 discrete water-level measurements.  The water levels measured in each of these wells were much shallower when compared to the 1995 statewide water-level map contours, most likely because they are perched water levels representative of localized conditions, rather than the regional groundwater flow system.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, groundwater-level, maps-and-atlases, usgs-5e2f36e5e4b0a79317d42284
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland P1 from 1983

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland P1 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-586fda4de4b01a71ba0c5ec5, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
DisMOSH, Cost, MOSH_Shoreline: Distance to foraging areas for piping plovers including foraging shoreline, cost mask, and least-cost path distance: Metompkin Island, VA, 2014

Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for crafting approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given this increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands in the near and long terms, we are developing Bayesian networks to evaluate and to forecast the cascading effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island state, and piping plover habitat availability. We use publicly available data products, such as lidar, orthophotography, and geomorphic feature sets derived from those, to extract metrics of barrier island characteristics at consistent sampling distances. The metrics are then incorporated into predictive models and the training data used to parameterize those models. This data release contains the extracted metrics of barrier island geomorphology and spatial data layers of habitat characteristics that are input to Bayesian networks for piping plover habitat availability and barrier island geomorphology. These datasets and models are being developed for sites along the northeastern coast of the United States. This work is one component of a larger research and management program that seeks to understand and sustain the ecological value, ecosystem services, and habitat suitability of beaches in the face of storm impacts, climate change, and sea-level rise.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, barrier-island, bayesian-network, biota, charadrius-melodus, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-habitat, delmarva-peninsula, ecology, environment, foraging-ecology, geographic-information-systems, geography, geomorphology, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, gis, mean-high-water, metompkin-island, mhw, north-america, piping-plovers, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usa, usgs, usgs-5daa37c3e4b09fd3b0c9cecf, va, virginia, virginia-coast-reserve, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Park Service Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 1993

The National Park Service (NPS) requests burn severity assessments through an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be completed by analysts with the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. All fires reported as greater than 1,000 acres in the western U.S. and greater than 500 acres in the eastern U.S. are mapped across all ownerships. MTBS produces a series of geospatial and tabular data for analysis at a range of spatial, temporal, and thematic scales and are intended to meet a variety of information needs that require consistent data about fire effects through space and time. This map layer is a thematic raster image of burn severity classes for all NPS-requested burn severity fires, occurring in CONUS during calendar year 1993. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires which were not discernable from available imagery.

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, hawaii, hi, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, nps, pr, prescribed-fire, puerto-rico, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-6307bcd0d34e3b967a8c1323, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetlands T4, T5, and T6 from 18 July 1990

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetlands T4, T5, and T6 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-5878f566e4b04df303d9595f, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021 Site 6301 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-656a00b1d34e6dde1a4ae365, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Audiomagnetotelluric sounding data in the Silverton Caldera complex, Colorado, 2018; Station AMTEG02

This dataset includes audiomagnetotelluric (AMT) sounding data collected in July 2018 in the Silverton Caldera complex, Colorado, in the Southern Rocky Mountain Volcanic Field, by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Along with geologic mapping, airborne magnetics, airborne electromagnetics, and magnetotellurics, the USGS collected AMT data at 24 sites along four profiles ranging from 3 to 6 kilometers in length across the north-western structural margin of the Silverton caldera in Mineral Basin (MB01-MB05), across the south-eastern margin of the caldera along Cunningham Creek (CC01-CC05), within the caldera in Eureka Graben (EG01-EG05), and within the caldera along upper Cement Creek near the Gold King mine (GK01-GK09).

Tags: amt, apparent-resistivity, audiomagnetotelluric, colorado, economy, electric-field-earth, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, gps-measurement, impedance, impedance-phase, impedance-strike, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric, magnetotelluric-surveying, mineral-resources-program, mrp, mt, san-juan-county, silverton, sounding, tipper, usgs-5ce427fde4b0654fe0bce438
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 353090  Santiago

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01769e4b0236b68f531f5, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Biofouling and mussel growth from mussels deployed in Great Lakes embayments (2013-2016)

Many taxa of North American unionid mussels are imperiled due to biofouling by invasive dreissenid mussels.  Here, we report on biofouling rates of unionid mussels suspended in cages during the growing season in nearshore embayments in Lake Erie (2013-2016), Lake Michigan (Green Bay 2016, Grand Traverse Bay 2015) and Lake Huron (Saginaw Bay 2015).  Mussels were deployed in early summer (late May or early June) and retrieved in late summer or fall (late August or early September).  Wet weights were collected from mussels before and after removal of biofouling taxa (primarily dreissenid mussels).

Tags: biofouling, biota, dreissenid-mussels, great-lakes, green-bay, lake-erie, lake-huron, lake-michigan, quagga-mussels, saginaw-bay, unionid-mussels, usgs-63480024d34ec63c539d92f4, zebra-mussels
Organization: Department of the Interior
US Fish and Wildlife Service Fire Atlas- Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 1994

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) requests burn severity assessments through an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be completed by analysts with the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program. These data products are burned area boundary shapefiles derived from post-fire sensor data (including Landsat TM, Landsat ETM+, Landsat OLI). The pre-fire and post-fire subsets included were used to create Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and then a differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) image. The objective of this assessment was to generate burned area boundaries for each fire. Data bundles also include post-fire subset, pre-fire subset, NBR, and dNBR images. This map layer is a thematic raster image of burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 1994. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires which were not discernable from available imagery.

Tags: burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, fws, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, prescribed-fire, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-65b1846ad34e36a39044c47c, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Input and output data for the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) used to predict seasonal water availability during 2000-2015 in the Upper Klamath River Basin, Oregon and California

This data release contains the model input and output data, and supporting files, from hydrologic simulations of streamflow conditions in the upper Klamath River Basin using the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS). The model was calibrated for the portion of the basin draining into Upper Klamath Lake. It simulates daily streamflow, snow, solar radiation, evapotranspiration, surface-water, and groundwater processes within the basin. The model calibration period spanned water years 2000 through 2015, and the model validation period spanned water years 1984 through 1999. The model was calibrated and validated using measured streamflow, snowpack, evapotranspiration, and solar radiation data sets.

Tags: california, environment, inlandwaters, modeling, oregon, streamflow, upper-klamath, usgs-654d1a5bd34ee4b6e05c2e8e, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Public supply, self-supplied domestic, irrigation, and thermoelectric water-use data from 5-year compilation datasets from 1985 to 2015 used to assess data variability and uncertainty

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Use Program is responsible for compiling and disseminating the Nation's water-use data. Working in cooperation with local, State, and Federal agencies, the USGS has published an estimate of water use in the United States every 5 years, beginning in 1950. These 5-year compilations contain water-use estimates that are aggregated to the county level in the United States. This USGS data release contains summaries of method codes used in the 2015 national compilation of public supply, self-supplied domestic, thermoelectric, and irrigation water-use data. This data release also contains the county-level water-use estimates that support the evaluations in Luukkonen and others (2021). Finally, this data release contains summaries of regional medians and interquartile ranges from 1985 to 2015 that were used to highlight areas of unexpected variability, consistency and/or potential values that warrant further investigation.
This data release supports the following publication: Luukkonen, C.L., Belitz, K., Sullivan, S.L., and Sargent, P., 2021, Factors affecting uncertainty of public supply, self-supplied domestic, irrigation, and thermoelectric water-use data, 1985-2015-evaluation of information sources, estimation methods, and data variability: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5082, 78 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215082.

Tags: domestic-water-use, environment, irrigation-water-use, public-supply-water-use, puerto-rico, thermoelectric-power-generation-water-use, united-states, usgs-607607ffd34e018b3201cb92, virgin-islands-of-the-united-states, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geochemical data to characterize physical and chemical properties of the Cenote Bang, a component of the Ox Bel Ha cave network within the subterranean estuary coastal aquifer of the Yucatan Peninsula, from December 2013 to January 2016

Subterranean estuaries extend inland into density-stratified coastal carbonate aquifers that contain a surprising diversity of endemic animals (mostly crustaceans) within a highly oligotrophic environment. How complex ecosystems thrive in this globally-distributed, cryptic habitat (termed anchialine) is poorly understood. The northeastern margin of the Yucatan Peninsula contains over 250 km of mapped, diver-accessible caves passages where previous studies have suggested chemoautotrophic processes are the source of carbon and energy sustaining the anchialine food web.  This dataset, collected during four field events during U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program Field Activities 2015-013-FA and 2016-003-FA in conjunction with Texas A&amp;M University reports geochemical properties of the water column from Cenote Bang, a component of the Ox Bel Ha cave network that is located 5 km inland from the coast.

Tags: anchialine, aquatic-ecosystems, biogeochemical-cycling, cave, cenote-bang, coastal-aquifer, ecosystem-functions, environment, geochemical-data, geochemistry, inlandwaters, karst, mexico, ox-bel-ha-cave-system, quintana-roo-mexico, usgs-595540e7e4b04e08be532852, yucatan-peninsula
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - PLATINUM-GROUP METALS Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the PLATINUM-GROUP METALS data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025.

Tags: iridium, metallic-mineral-resources, osmium, palladium, pgm-waste-and-scrap, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, usgs-679801d3d34ea8c18376e213
Organization: Department of the Interior