AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Peak Streamflow Data, Climate Data, and Results from Investigating Hydroclimatic Trends and Climate Change Effects on Peak Streamflow in the Central United States, 1921–2020

Peak-flow frequency analysis is crucial in various water-resources management applications, including floodplain management and critical structure design. Federal guidelines for peak-flow frequency analyses, provided in Bulletin 17C, assume that the statistical properties of the hydrologic processes driving variability in peak flows do not change over time and so the frequency distribution of annual peak flows is stationary. Better understanding of long-term climatic persistence and further consideration of potential climate and land-use changes have caused the assumption of stationarity to be reexamined. This data release contains input data and results of a study investigating hydroclimatic trends in peak streamflow (peak flow) in the Central United States, including nine states (Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin). Peak flow records from unregulated U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamgages were used to evaluate changes over 30-, 50-, 75-, and 100-year trend periods, all ending in water year 2020. 
This data release contains station lists of the streamgages used in each of the nine states, the peak streamflow input data and peak streamflow analysis results, and the climate input data and climate analysis results. See "Station_Lists.zip" on the landing page for station lists (in text file format) for each state included in the study.

Tags: climate-change, climatology, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, environment, floods, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, illinois, inlandwaters, iowa, michigan, minnesota, missouri, montana, north-dakota, regression-analysis, river-systems, south-dakota, stream-discharge, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, united-states, usgs-626971a9d34e76103cd09baf, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Molecular speciation of Ge within sphalerite, hemimorphite, and quartz from mine waste from the Tar Creek Superfund Site, Tri-State Mining District, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Oxidation state and bonding environment of Ge in minerals within mine waste from sampled historical waste piles from the Tar Creek Superfund Site, Oklahoma, U.S. were determined by linear combination fits from x-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES) analysis. Ge content in quartz within these wastes was determined using XANES edge steps, and Ge content in sphalerite was compared using XANES edge steps versus electron microprobe analyses. 
Data and methods reported are part of a research study published here:  
White, S.J.O., Piatak, N.M., McAleer, R.J., Hayes. S.M., Seal, R.R. II, Schaider, L.A., Shine, J.P. Germanium redistribution during weathering of Zn mine wastes: implications for environmental mobility and recovery of a critical mineral, Applied Geochemistry, p. 105341, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105341.

Tags: cenozoic-era, germanium, hemimorphite, holocene-epoch, mine-wastes, oklahoma, quaternary-period, sphalerite, tar-creek, usgs-626982fed34e76103cd09c21
Organization: Department of the Interior
Statistically Downscaled Wind and Humidity from the ERA-5 and MERRA-2 Reanalysis over California and Nevada from 1979-2019

Statistical downscaling methodology was applied to global atmosphere reanalysis, using a 10 year dynamical modeled output as training data, to extend a record of wind and humidity back through the satellite era beginning 1979 or 1980. To extend the record of weather to cover a longer period and thus a greater number of significant fire weather events, statistical downscaling was implemented using the Localized Constructed Analogs (LOCA) statistical downscaling technique. LOCA is computationally efficient and has been designed to better simulate extreme events and spatial weather structure than previous statistical downscaling. The output hourly 3 km spatial resolution data covering the California and Nevada region was downscaled from each of the two global atmospheric reanalyses: a) the ERA5 Reanalysis covering January 1979 through December 2019; b) the MERRA2 Reanalysis covering January 1980 through December 2018. These two reanalyses, ERA5 and MERRA2, are acknowledged to provide high quality, dynamically-consistent representations of historical global weather. The time resolution was extended from daily to hourly time samples, given the 10 years of hourly, 2km WRF dynamical model historical simulation from 2004-2013 supplied by co-investigator Tim Brown and colleagues at Desert Research Institute, called the “DRI-WRF” dataset. The LOCA dataset was generated over California and Nevada for each hour of 1979-2019, the satellite era that comprises the ERA5 Reanalysis. In the LOCA downscaling process, cross validation tests were employed to evaluate LOCA performance in simulating winds and humidity, especially in cases of extreme high winds and low humidity that are particularly important in this fire weather application. The LOCA downscaled winds and humidity were supplied to co-PIs of this project for their investigation of daily weather influences on wildfire in California.

Tags: california, climatology, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, downscaled, era5, fire, fires, humidity, loca, merra2, modeling, nevada, usgs-62698a7dd34e76103cd09c42, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fate of caterpillars collected at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge

This data release includes metadata and tabular data that documents the fate of caterpillars collected from different plant species at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge during 2017-2018. The dataset identifies the final stage obtained for each caterpillar collected. Final stages included: caterpillar, pupa, adult (moth or butterfly) and parasitized by Hymenoptera.

Tags: biota, caterpillars, hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii-island, host-plants, usgs-627751f5d34e8d45aa6e2f1e
Organization: Department of the Interior
MODFLOW One-Water Hydrologic Flow Model (MF-OWHM) used to simulate conjunctive use in the Hatch Valley and Mesilla Basin, New Mexico and Texas, United States, and northern Chihuahua, Mexico

The Rio Grande Transboundary Integrated Hydrologic Model (RGTIHM), which was originally developed by Hanson and others (2020) (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20195120), was updated and recalibrated to minimize the biases in RGTIHM’s simulation of streamflow and to incorporate new estimates of historical agricultural consumptive use in the study area.  The RGTIHM was developed through an interagency effort between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) to provide a tool for analyzing the hydrologic system response to the historical (March 1940 through 2014) evolution of water use and potential changes in water supplies and demands in the Hatch Valley (also known as Rincon Valley in the study area) and Mesilla Basin (study area). Reclamation operates the Rio Grande Project (RGP) to store and deliver surface water for irrigation and municipal use within the study area and in the El Paso Valley south of the study area. The RGTIHM, using version 2 of the MODFLOW One-Water Hydrologic Flow Model, provides a tool to evaluate alternative management strategies, including conjunctive management of surface water and groundwater, and to support long-term planning and decision making for the RGP. The updated and recalibrated RGTIHM demonstrates a robust ability to simulate spatially and temporally variable measurements or estimates of hydraulic head, surface-water flows, agricultural pumping, RGP surface-water deliveries and canal waste, and decadal aquifer storage changes, with many improvements over the previous version of the model documented in Hanson and others (2020) (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20195120). This USGS data release contains all the input and output files for the RGTIHM documented in Hanson and others (2020) and the updated and recalibrated RGTIHM documented in the associated model report (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20225045).

Tags: dona-ana-county, el-paso-county, environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, groundwater-flow, groundwater-model, hatch-valley, inlandwaters, mathematical-modeling, mesilla-basin, mesilla-valley, mexico, mf-owhm, new-mexico, rincon-valley, sierra-county, texas, united-states, usgs-62a12334d34ec53d27701c32, usgsgroundwatermodel
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wetland vegetation and elevation of Arcadia Marsh, Michigan (1995-2010)

Vegetation sampling and elevation data were collected to characterize the sedge-grass meadow of  Arcadia Marsh, Arcadia, Michigan (USA), a drowned river mouth wetland near Lake Michigan. Wetland vegetation community data were collected by quadrat sampling in 1995, 2002, and 2010 and topographic data were collected via GPS and LIDAR positional data in 2010.

Tags: aquatic-vascular-vegetation, aquatic-vegetation, bathymetry-and-elevation, biogeography, community-ecology, digital-elevation-models, elevation, emergent-wetland, freshwater-ecosystems, great-lakes, lake-michigan, michigan, northeastern-lake-michigan, plants-organisms, topographic-maps, united-states, usgs-625edc88d34e85fa62b7f822, vascular-plants, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Black Bayou Hydrologic Restoration (CS-27): 2018 land-water classification

The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Black Bayou Hydrologic Restoration (CS-27) project for 2018. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a land-water classification is performed on specific CWPPRA sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-photography, conservation, cs-27, cwppra, digital-elevation-models, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, image-collections, image-mosaics, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, remote-sensing, united-states-of-america, usgs-62a0b926d34ec53d27701a42, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment trapping at "The Jaws" (TV-15): 2008, 2015, and 2018 land-water classifications

The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Sediment Trapping at "The Jaws" (TV-15) project for 2008, 2015, and 2018. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a land-water classification is performed on specific CWPPRA sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-photography, conservation, cwppra, digital-elevation-models, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, image-collections, image-mosaics, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, remote-sensing, tv-15, united-states-of-america, usgs-62a0b5eed34ec53d27701a20, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cole's Bayou Marsh Restoration (TV-63): 2018 land-water classification

The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Cole's Bayou Marsh Restoration (TV-63) project for 2018. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a land-water classification is performed on specific CWPPRA sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-photography, conservation, cwppra, digital-elevation-models, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, image-collections, image-mosaics, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, remote-sensing, tv-63, united-states-of-america, usgs-62a0a663d34ec53d2770178b, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Compilation of thermal maturity and source rock geochemistry data from the Permian Basin Province, west Texas and southeast New Mexico

This data release is a compilation of published and unpublished thermal maturity and source rock geochemical data (Rock-Eval, pyrolysis) from subsurface wells in the Permian Basin, west Texas and southeast New Mexico. These data include 67 newly collected samples and analyses from Delaware Basin wells (identified as Cicero_2022), as well as 1028 previously unpublished USGS analyses from the entire province (identified as LIMS). Data were also synthesized from publicly available sources, such as theses and dissertations, state agencies and databases, as well as from the body of published literature.

Tags: central-basin-platform, continuous, conventional, delaware-basin, midland-basin, new-mexico, permian-basin, petroleum-resources-gas, petroleum-resources-oil, pyrolysis, texas, thermal-maturity, usgs-625ebc43d34e85fa62b7f780, val-verde-basin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiian Islands 19 bioclimatic variables for baseline and future (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) climate scenarios

We integrated recent climate model projections developed for the State of Hawai’i with current climatological datasets to generate updated regionally defined bioclimatic variables. We derived updated bioclimatic variables from new projections of baseline and future monthly minimum, mean, and maximum temperature (Tmin, Tmean, Tmax) and mean precipitation (Pmean) data at 250 m resolution. We used observation-based data for the baseline bioclimatic variables from the Rainfall Atlas of Hawai’i. We used the most up-to-date dynamically downscaled future projections based on the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model from the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). We summarized the monthly data from these two projections into a suite of 19 bioclimatic variables that provide detailed information about annual and seasonal mean climatic conditions specifically for the Hawaiian Islands. These bioclimatic variables are available state-wide for three climate scenarios: baseline climate (1990-2009) and future climate (2080-2099) under RCP 4.5 (IPRC projections only) and RCP 8.5 (both IPRC and NCAR projections). As Hawai’i is characterized by two 6-month seasons, we also provide mean seasonal variables for all scenarios based on the dry (May-October) and wet (November-April) seasonality of Hawaiian climate.

Tags: bioclimatic-variables, climate-shifts, farming, future-scenarios, global-circulation-models, hawaii, main-hawaiian-islands, regional-projections, usgs-629ff004d34ec53d276fd5cc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Static chamber fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane from coastal wetlands on Upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts and supporting environmental data, 2021

Saline tidal wetlands are important sites of carbon sequestration and produce negligible methane (CH4) emissions due to regular inundation with sulfate-rich seawater. Yet, widespread management of coastal hydrology has restricted vast areas of coastal wetlands to tidal exchange. These ecosystems often undergo impoundment and freshening, which in turn cause vegetation shifts like invasion by Phragmites, that affect ecosystem carbon balance. Understanding controls of carbon exchange in these understudied ecosystems is critical for informing climate consequences of blue carbon restoration and/or management interventions. Here we present measurements of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane, along with ancillary meteorological data, collected from coastal wetlands across Cape Cod to evaluate the effect of hydrological management and salinity on carbon exchange in coastal wetlands.

Tags: barnstable-county-606927, biota, cape-cod-606914, carbon, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, commonwealth-of-massachusetts-606926, ecological-processes, ecological-restoration, ecology, environment, flat-pond-615605, geoscientificinformation, invasive-species, sage-lot-pond-616548, salt-marshes, united-states-of-america, usgs-629fa3e2d34ec53d276fd537, waquoit-village-617261, west-falmouth-616149, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions, wetlands, woods-hole-617060
Organization: Department of the Interior
CE-QUAL-W2 models for select U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs in the Willamette Valley Project and an inter-reservoir reach of the Middle Fork Willamette River, northwestern Oregon, 2011, 2015, and 2016

The Willamette Valley Project (WVP) is a system of revetments, fish hatcheries, and 13 dams in the Willamette Basin of northwestern Oregon that is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide flood risk management, irrigation, power generation, water quality improvement, and recreational opportunities, among other authorized purposes. By reducing available habitat and altering the natural hydrologic and thermal regimes in the Willamette Basin, the WVP has negatively influenced native populations of anadromous fish, including spring-run Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and winter-run steelhead (O. mykiss), which were designated as threatened under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Public Law 93–205, 87 Stat. 884, as amended) in 1999. CE-QUAL-W2, a two-dimensional, hydrodynamic water quality model, has been used to simulate and analyze the temperature of water released from key Willamette Valley Project dams. and the effect on river reaches downstream that might result from a variety of theoretical management scenarios. This data release includes input, output, and calibration files for CE-QUAL-W2 models of Hills Creek Lake and Hills Creek Dam, the Middle Fork Willamette River between Hills Creek Dam and Lookout Point Lake, Lookout Point Lake and Lookout Point Dam, Dexter Lake and Dexter Dam, Cougar Reservoir and Cougar Dam, Green Peter Lake and Green Peter Dam, Foster Lake and Foster Dam, Detroit Lake and Detroit Dam, and Big Cliff Lake and Big Cliff Dam. The models, built by other researchers in the early to-mid-2000s to simulate a disparate range of time periods, were upgraded to CE-QUAL-W2 version 4.2 with additional USGS modifications. Models are set up to run from January through December of 2011, 2015, and 2016 except where truncated for the purposes of model stability. CE-QUAL-W2 models in this data release can be combined with CE-QUAL-W2 river models of the Fall Creek and the Coast Fork Willamette, Middle Fork Willamette, Row, South Fork McKenzie, McKenzie, South Santiam, North Santiam, Santiam, and Willamette Rivers, documented in OFR 2022-1017 (see External Sources), to run model scenarios for an “integrated, basin-wide” model of the Willamette Valley Project.

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, imagerybasemapsearthcover, modeling, oregon, surface-water-quality, usgs-629e7d55d34ec53d276f7c9a, willamette-valley
Organization: Department of the Interior
Structure-from-Motion point clouds from St. Joseph surveys, MI, July 13, 2021

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) point clouds were created from images collected using a remotely piloted unoccupied aerial system over the bluffs of the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in St. Joseph, a urban residential area. The digital imagery was collected with the internal camera of a DJI Phantom 3 PRO for the July 8, 2019 data and DJI Phantom 4 PRO for the July 13, 2021 data that was operated by the University of Toledo. The images cover an extent between the intersection of Lakeshore Dr. with Lakeshore Road to the north, and South Lakeshore Dr. to the south. The images were collected in .jpg format and include Exif metadata with GPS date, time, and latitude and longitude, and other fields. Point clouds were created from the collected images using  Agisoft Metashape 1.7.6 SfM photogrammetry software in the open source compressed lidar data exchange laz format. A description of the laz format and links to software tools for using laz files are provided at the USGS website: https://www.usgs.gov/news/3d-elevation-program-distributing-lidar-data-laz-format.The point cloud was not classified.

Tags: berrien-county, digital-elevation-model, elevation, geology-minerals-energy-and-geophysics-science-center, geospatial-datasets, gmeg, lake-michigan, landslides, mgs, michigan-geological-survey, national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program, ncgmp, remote-sensing, st-joseph, state-of-michigan, structure-from-motion, u-s-geological-survey, university-of-toledo, usgs, usgs-629a7834d34ec53d276f4940, ut
Organization: Department of the Interior
Model parameter input files to compare the influence of channels in fringing coral reefs on alongshore variations in wave-driven runup along the shoreline

An extensive set of physics-based XBeach Non-hydrostatic hydrodynamic model simulations (with input files here included) were used to evaluate the influence of shore-normal reef channels on flooding along fringing reef-lined coasts, specifically during extreme wave conditions when the risk for coastal flooding and the resulting impact to coastal communities is greatest.
These input files accompany the modeling conducted for the following publication: Storlazzi, C.D., Rey, A.E., and van Dongeren, A.R., 2022, A numerical study of geomorphic and oceanographic controls on wave-driven runup on fringing reefs with shore-normal channels: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(6), 828, https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10060828.

Tags: bathymetry-and-elevation, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, coral-reefs, geoscientificinformation, hazards, numerical-modeling, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, reef, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-6259b3b7d34e21f82770a9bd, water-circulation, waves
Organization: Department of the Interior