AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Regional screening for managed aquifer recharge suitability in Jordan, Lebanon, and surrounding areas

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, Arab Water Council, Hydrology.NL, National Center for Research and Development (Jordan), and American University of Beirut, completed a project for acceleration of aquifer storage and recovery in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The MENA region is globally the most water-scarce region with only two percent of the global average annual rainfall. Unsustainable groundwater withdrawals have caused groundwater levels to decline. Groundwater quality has also degraded due to seawater intrusion in coastal areas and infiltration of incompletely treated wastewaters. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is an established water resources management practice to help sustain groundwater resources and increase water supply and security. The project team prepared regional screening maps of MAR suitability based on accumulated runoff and land surface slope to illustrate suitability mapping methods and highlight areas of suitable runoff and slope that may be appropriate for MAR in Jordan, Lebanon, and surrounding areas. The datasets included in this Data Release are: Map 1 prepared using tabular ranking of combinations of different classes of slope and runoff, and Map 2 prepared using multi-criteria decision analysis for slope and runoff. For detailed description of each dataset please see the associated report "Managed Aquifer Recharge Suitability—Regional Screening and Case Studies in Jordan and Lebanon".

Tags: digital-elevation-models, elevation, geoscientific-information, geospatial-datasets, hydrology, inland-waters, jordan, lebanon, runoff, usgs-6139056ad34e40dd9c0d5d99
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cape Canaveral tracklines of geophysical data collected in 2016 by Coastal Carolina University

A geophysical survey was conducted offshore Cape Canaveral, Florida by Coastal Carolina University offshore of Cape Canaveral, Florida using high-resolution chirp sub-bottom, multibeam bathymetry and side scan sonar (SSS) systems on June 13, 14, 16, and 17 of 2016. This USGS data release includes the resulting processed elevation point data (xyz), an interpolated digital elevation model (DEM), with processed backscatter, side scan sonar, and seismic chirp data.

Tags: 512i, backscatter, bathymetry, cape-canaveral, chirp, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-carolina-university, coastal-location, elevation, em3002d, epipelagic, florida, geophysical, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, hydrography, imagerybasemapsearthcover, location, marine-geology, multibeam-sonar, ocean-characteristics, ocean-processes, oceans, sea-surface, seafloor-mapping, seismic-reflection, side-scan-sonar, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, subbottom-profile, tracklines, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-382b3255-8839-4263-a02b-742a0c98303a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital elevation models (DEMs) of the Elwha River delta, Washington, July 2016

This part of the data release presents a digital elevation model (DEM) derived from bathymetry and topography data of the Elwha River delta collected in July 2016. Two dams on the Elwha River, Washington State, USA trapped over 20 million m3 of sediment, reducing downstream sediment fluxes and contributing to erosion of the river's coastal delta. The removal of the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams between 2011 and 2014 induced massive increases in river sediment supply and provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine the response of a delta system to changes in sediment supply. The U.S. Geological Survey developed an integrated research program aimed at understanding the ecosystem responses following dam removal that included regular monitoring of coastal and nearshore bathymetry and topography.  As part of this monitoring program, the USGS conducted a bathymetric and topographic survey in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the Elwha River delta, Washington (USGS Field Activity Number 2016-653-FA).  Bathymetry data were collected using two personal watercraft (PWCs) and a kayak, each equipped with single beam echosounders and survey-grade global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Topography data were collected on foot with GNSS receivers mounted on backpacks. DEM surfaces were produced from all available elevation data using linear interpolation.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, digital-elevation-models, echo-sounders, elevation, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, gps-global-positioning-system, gps-measurement, single-beam-echo-sounder, topographic-mapping, topography, usgs-582f4055e4b04d580bd4d01c, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Soller Surficial Materials, 2009

This tabular data set represents the percent of surficial materials compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID. The source data is the "Map database for surficial materials in the conterminous United States" produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS, 2009). Units are percent. Surficial materials are defined as an unconsolidated blanket of sediments in which soils commonly are developed. These sediments generally were eroded from underlying rock, and then were transported and deposited (USGS, 2009). Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions.  Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

Tags: catchment, inlandwaters, nhdplus, sediments, soller, surficial-materials, usgs-57d8529ee4b090824ff9ac91
Organization: Department of the Interior
Astrogeology Science Center Monthly Report, February 1975

Monthly report to show updates on highlights and noteworthy results, publications, talks or papers presented, and mapping progress tables. Includes unpublished works and works in progress.

Tags: astrogeology, astrogeology-branch-history, branch-history, geoscientificinformation, planetary-sciences, usgs-6312c938d34e36012efa184e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mississippi Alluvial Plain Extent, November 2017

The Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP) has become one of the most important agricultural regions in the US, and it relies heavily on a groundwater system that is poorly understood and shows signs of substantial change. The heavy use of the available groundwater resources has resulted in significant groundwater-level declines and reductions in base flow in streams within the MAP. These impacts are limiting well production and threatening future water-availability for the region.  
This product will help not only scientists in our center, but also at a national level. This product will also be part of a larger study encompassing the Mississippi Alluvial Plain region.   
The Mississippi Alluvial Plain extent was delineated using GIS tools to represent the geographic extent of the Mississippi Alluvial Aquifer through incorporation of elevation information, geomorphology knowledge, ecological region extent, and previously published extents for part of the MAP region.  
The current MAP extent represents version 1.0. Future changes to the MAP extent will be tracked through increasing version numbers.

Tags: aquifer-system, arkansas, arkansas-river, groundwater-availability-project, groundwater-modeling, hydrogeology, illinois, kentucky, lmg, louisiana, lower-mississippi-gulf-water-science, map, mississippi, mississippi-alluvial-plain, mississippi-river, mississippi-river-delta, mississippi-valley, missouri, tennessee, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5a8c97c1e4b069906054df6e, water-availability-and-use-science-program, water-availability-project
Organization: Department of the Interior
Astrogeology Science Center Monthly Report, December 1962

Monthly report to show updates on highlights and noteworthy results, new projects, conferences and scientific meetings, and visitors. Includes unpublished works and works in progress.

Tags: astrogeology, astrogeology-branch-history, branch-history, geoscientificinformation, planetary-sciences, usgs-63112ad2d34e36012efa10cc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0120 land-water classification data

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 398 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. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2018 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

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-611d29dbd34e40dd9c01289d, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 332040  Hualalai

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-58d01645e4b0236b68f53079, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field measurements of Rhodamine dye concentration during a tracer experiment on the Kootenai River, ID, September 25-27, 2017

To support research on dispersion in river channels, a tracer dye experiment was performed on the Kootenai River in northern Idaho, September 25-27, 2017. This data release provides in situ field measurements of Rhodamine WT dye concentration acquired during the experiment.  A pulse consisting of 72.57 kg (160 pounds) of KEYACID™ Rhodamine WT dye that was 20% Rhodamine by weight was introduced into the Kootenai River channel from a single release point at the Kootenai Tribal Fish Hatchery over a period of 90 seconds ending at 20:10:40 PDT on 9/26/2017, which is equivalent to 04:10:40 on 9/27/2017 UTC.  Information on the timing and location of the dye release is available from the KootenaiDyeReleasePoints.kmz Google Earth placemark file included in this data release.  Following the release, measurements of dye concentration in units of micrograms/liter were made with a set of five water quality sondes (Turner Designs C3 submersible fluorometers).  Four of these sondes were deployed in a stationary, moored configuration to record time series at a single fixed location.  A fifth sonde was deployed from a jet boat and used to record a longitudinal profile down the channel as well as a series of cross-sections to quantify lateral variations in concentration.  All of these measurements are geo-referenced (UTM Zone 11N, NAD83) and provide information on spatial and temporal variations in dye concentration as the Rhodamine plume dispersed along and across the Kootenai River following the initial release.  The measurements continued for nearly 40 hours after the release and the discharge during this time period remained steady, with a mean of 198.4 m3/s and standard deviation of 7.1 m3/s as measured at the USGS gaging station at the Tribal Hatchery (#12310100).   The data are provided in text files (.csv) and shapefiles that include spatial information (coordinates of each measurement) and UTC time stamps as well as the measured concentrations in micrograms/liter. These field measurements of Rhodamine dye concentration, along with related remotely sensed data sets included in associated data releases, were used to assess the potential for estimating tracer dye concentrations from remotely sensed data to support studies of dispersion in river channels.  In addition, the concentration data were used to support and validate hydrodynamic numerical models of flow, dispersion, and Lagrangian particle tracking.

Tags: bonners-ferry, channel, concentration, dispersion, idaho, kootenai-river, rhodamine-dye, river, tracer-study, usgs-5b2176f5e4b092d9652873eb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Holocene fault reactivation in the eastern Cascades, WA

Significant uncertainty remains in how and where crustal shortening occurs throughout the eastern Cascade Range in Washington State. Using lidar imagery, we identified a ~5 km long lineament in Swakane canyon near Wenatchee, roughly coincident with a strand of the Entiat fault. Topographic profiles across the lineament reveal a southwest-side-up break in slope with an average of ~3 m of vertical separation of the hillslope surface. We consider a range of possible origins for this feature, including differential erosion across a fault-line scarp, slope failure (sackung or landslide), and surface deformation across an active fault strand. Based on trenching, radiocarbon and luminescence dating, and ground penetrating radar (GPR) across the lineament, we conclude that warped saprolite observed in the shallow subsurface is most consistent with southwest-side-up folding caused by blind reverse faulting at depth. Following this reasoning, dating of overlying colluvial deposits suggests at least one Holocene earthquake occurred on this strand of the southern Entiat fault with an approximate vertical separation of ≥1 m. GPR reveals up to 4 m of cumulative vertical separation of the saprolite, suggesting a history of multiple earthquakes on the structure. Taken in context with other potential fault-related lineaments along the Entiat fault, our interpretation of Holocene earthquakes in Swakane canyon could suggest reactivation of longer sections of the Entiat fault, as well as other bedrock faults in the eastern Cascades. Although active erosion and slow strain rates lead to a subdued geomorphic expression of recent deformation, we conclude that the reactivated Entiat fault represents a seismogenic structure that should be considered in regional seismic hazard analyses. The difficulty of recognizing low slip-rate structures in forested and mountainous terrain underscores the importance of additional lidar surveys and geological and geophysical studies for fully understanding seismic hazard in regions with infrequent but potentially large earthquakes.

Tags: earth-science, earthquake-hazard, earthquake-hazards-program, ehp, fault, geologic-hazards-science-center, ghsc, holocene, usgs, usgs-59f1e620e4b0220bbd9dd459
Organization: Department of the Interior
Central Valley Hydrologic Model version 2 (CVHM2): Small Watershed Climate Data (Recharge, Runoff)

This digital dataset consists of monthly climate data from the Basin Characterization Model v8 (BCMv8) for the updated Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM2) for water years 1922 to 2019. The BCMv8 data are available in a separate data release titled "The Basin Characterization Model - A regional water balance software package (BCMv8) data release and model archive for hydrologic California, water years 1896-2020". The data were modified by: (1) extracting the data from the data source for the relevant model domain and times, and (2) rescaling the 270-meter BCMv8 grid to the small watersheds that contribute boundary flow to the CVHM2 model for the hydrologic variables recharge and runoff. The three data pieces included are a CSV file of monthly recharge and runoff values in units of acre-ft/month for each of the 56 small watersheds, a shapefile of the the foothill boundaries for the small watersheds and a shapefile of the model boundary cells and runoff cells that are active for the small watersheds.

Tags: california, central-valley, climate, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, environment, farming, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, potential-evapotranspiration, precipitation, united-states, usgs-62201161d34ee0c6b38a870d, water-budget
Organization: Department of the Interior
HW3_Q58.TIF - Hawaii III - Northwestern Hawaii U.S. EEZ GLORIA sidescan-sonar data mosaic (6 of 22) (LCC, 50 m, WGS84)

In 1984, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Office of Marine Geology, launched a program using the Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) sidescan-sonar system to study the entire U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). From 1989 through 1991, the USGS and IOS (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, U.K.) scientists conducted several surveys within the EEZ off Hawaii. Six surveys during that time period focused on the northwestern Hawaii region. The results of these surveys were 22 digital mosaics of approximately of approximately a 2 degree by 2 degree area with a 50-meter pixel resolution.

Tags: acoustic-receivers, acoustic-reflectivity, backscatter, central-pacific-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, distributions, eez, exclusive-economic-zone, exclusive-economic-zone-eez, field-activity-number-f-1-90-hw, field-activity-number-f-10-91-hw, field-activity-number-f-13-89-hw, field-activity-number-f-2-90-hw, field-activity-number-f-5-91-cp, field-activity-number-f-6-91-cp, geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, geoscientificinformation, geotiff-image, gloria, gloria-gt-geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, grey-scale-image, hawaii, hawaii-ecoregion, hawaiian-emperor-chain, hawaiian-islands, hawaiian-ridge, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, kure-island, lisianski-island, marine-basin-floor, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-oceanic, midway-islands, nero-seamount, neva-shoal, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean-gt-central-pacific-ocean, oceans, oceans-gt-ocean-acoustics-gt-acoustic-reflectivity, oceans-gt-pacific-ocean-gt-central-pacific-ocean-gt-hawaiian-islands, pearl-and-hermes-shelf, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, pioneer-bank, salmon-bank, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, side-scan-sonar, sidescan-sonar, sidescan-sonar-mosaic, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-7f522d3b-ca69-4221-aadb-56bc2c49ce27, wcmg, western-coastal-and-marine-geology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Summary tables for the approximate inland extent of saltwater intrusion at the base of the Biscayne aquifer in 2022, Miami-Dade County, Florida

Tables were created to summarize well information, maximum chloride concentrations and specific conductance data sourced from Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority (FKAA), Florida Power and Light Company (FPL), MacVicar Consulting Inc., and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) during 2022. The summary tables here provide the information used to create the 1,000-mg/L isochlor in ArcGIS Pro. A table listing the USGS sites used to develop a regression between chloride concentration and specific conductance is also included in this release.

Tags: biscayne-aquifer, florida, isochlor, miami-dade-county, monitoring-well, saltwater-interface, saltwater-intrusion, usgs-6644e495d34e1955f5a42aed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aerial Surveys of Rock Sandpipers in Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska, 1997-2014

This data release consists of one table of multi-year observations of Rock Sandpipers (Calidris ptilocnemis) and aerial photographs of Rock Sandpiper flocks at sites in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska, 1997-2014.

Tags: aerial-photography, aerial-surveys, alaska, animals-vertebrates, beshta-bay, biota, birds, bruin-bay, campbell-creek, chickaloon-bay, chinitna-bay, coastal-ecosystems, cook-inlet, environment, estuarine-habitat, iniskin-bay, kalgin-island, kasilof-river, kenai-river, marine-ecosystems, migration-organisms, migratory-birds, overwintering, population-dynamics, redoubt-bay, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, shorebirds, susitna-flats, susitna-river, trading-bay, tuxedni-bay, usgs-66e1c105d34ecba8b86775f0, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity measurements collected along cross-section lines (transects) in the Ohio River between Markland Locks and Dam and McAlpine Locks and Dam, Kentucky and Indiana, June 26–29, 2017 (survey #2)

Velocity and water-quality surveys were completed along an approximately 71-mile reach of the Ohio River between Markland Locks and Dam (river mile 531.5) and McAlpine Locks and Dam (river mile 606.8) on October 27–November 4, 2016 (survey #1), and June 26–29, 2017 (survey #2). Water-quality data collected in this reach included surface measurements and vertical profiles of water temperature, specific conductance, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, chlorophyll, and phycocyanin. Streamflow and velocity data were collected simultaneous to the water-quality data at cross-sections and along longitudinal lines (corresponding to the water-quality surface measurements) and at selected stationary locations (corresponding to the water-quality vertical profiles). All velocity and water-quality data were georeferenced with a differential GPS receiver with submeter accuracy. The data were collected to understand variability of flow and water-quality conditions relative to simulated reaches of the Ohio River and to aid in identifying parts of the reach that may provide conditions favorable to spawning and recruitment habitat for Asian carp.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiler, chlorophyll, dissolved-oxygen, indiana, kentucky, louisville, markland-locks-and-dam, mcalpine-locks-and-dam, multiparameter-sonde, ohio-river, ph, phycocyanin, river, specific-conductance, temperature, turbidity, united-states-of-america, usgs-5f35a12a82cee144fb359886, velocity, warsaw, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior