AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Using relative topography and elevation uncertainty to delineate dune habitat on barrier islands

Dunes with a high relative topography can often be easily distinguished in high-resolution lidar-based digital elevation models (DEMs). Thus, researchers have begun using relative topography metrics, such as the topographic position index (TPI; Weiss, 2001), to identify ridges and upper slopes for extracting dunes from lidar-based DEMs (Wernette et al., 2016; Halls et al. 2018). DEMs are often used for automated delineations of intertidal and supratidal habitats in coastal applications despite issues related to vertical uncertainty. However, the level of vertical uncertainty from data collected with conventional aerial topographic lidar systems has been found to be as high as 60 cm in densely vegetated emergent wetlands throughout the United States (Medeiros et al., 2015; Buffington et al., 2016; Enwright et al., 2018). This uncertainty can also impact elevations in other habitats such as dunes due to vegetation cover and slope (Su and Bork, 2006). Another challenge when mapping geomorphology-based habitats (e.g., dune, beach, intertidal marsh, forest) on dynamic barrier islands is the need for standardized methods that are efficient and repeatable. In response, we developed an approach that builds on recent efforts using relative topography to identify ridges and upper slopes for dune delineation (Wernette et al. 2016; Halls et al. 2018) by also applying Monte Carlo simulations to treat elevation uncertainty in coastal settings when extracting elevation-dependent habitats from a DEM (Liu et al. 2007; Enwright et al. 2018) for a case study on Dauphin Island, Alabama. Beyond just the application of uncertainty, we refined ridges and upper slopes extracted from a DEM by removing small noisy polygons and using manual refinement. This data release contains each of these iterations to show the importance of uncertainty analyses and manual refinement when using automated extraction of elevation-dependent habitats from a DEM. This data release includes a TPI directory, which contains four polygon shapefiles that represent each step in the TPI-based dune delineation process, which includes: 1) step1_raw_ridges_upper_slopes.shp; 2) step2_refinement_extreme_water_level.shp; 3) step3_refinement_via_noise removal.shp; and 4) step4_final_refinement_from_visual_inspection.shp. Since this a step-wise process, each step includes the prior steps. A second component of this data release is a raster named “Prob_Abv_Storm” that estimates the probability of a pixel being above the extreme water level with a 10-percent annual exceedance probability for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Dauphin Island tide gauge (station ID: 8735180).

Tags: barrier-island, dune, elevation, environment, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, lidar, lower-alabama, mobile, monte-carlo, usgs-5bd119f3e4b0b3fc5ce163e6, vertical-uncertainty
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation Community Data within a Proposed Wetland Area on the NM Boys and Girls Ranch near Bernardo, NM (2018)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), working in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, installed a groundwater and vegetation monitoring network in a proposed wetland area east of the Rio Grande near Bernardo, New Mexico on the NM Boys and Girls Ranch, at a site now known as the Blue Heron Wildlife Preserve (BHWP). In September of 2016, baseline vegetation data were collected across the BHWP to assess vegetation changes with time in the proposed wetland area as it is established and maintained. A second round of vegetation surveys were conducted in August of 2018 for comparative purposes. The collection of this data will support conservation and management decisions.

Tags: bernardo, botany, population-and-community-ecology, relative-abundance-analysis, socorro-county, usgs-5bd0de20e4b0b3fc5ce15cbd, vegetation, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation Community Data within a Proposed Wetland Area on the NM Boys and Girls Ranch near Bernardo, NM  (2016)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), working in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, installed a groundwater and vegetation monitoring network in a proposed wetland area east of the Rio Grande near Bernardo, New Mexico on the NM Boys and Girls Ranch, at a site now known as the Blue Heron Wildlife Preserve (BHWP). In September of 2016, baseline vegetation data were collected across the BHWP to assess vegetation changes with time in the proposed wetland area as it is established and maintained. A second round of vegetation surveys were conducted in August of 2018 for comparative purposes. The collection of this data will support conservation and management decisions.

Tags: bernardo, botany, population-and-community-ecology, relative-abundance-analysis, socorro-county, usgs-5bd0dddde4b0b3fc5ce15cb9, vegetation, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hourly solar radiation in Langleys and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018

The text file "Solar radiation.txt" contains hourly solar radiation data in Langleys and associated data-source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2018. The primary data for water year 2018 (a water year is the 12-month period, October 1 through September 30, designated by the calendar year in which it ends) were downloaded from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN17.WDM (Bera and Over, 2018) and renamed as ARGN18.WDM. Missing and apparently erroneous data values were replaced with adjusted values from nearby weather stations used as “backup”. Temporal variations in the statistical properties of the data resulting from changes in measurement and data storage methodologies were adjusted to match the statistical properties resulting from the data collection procedures that have been in place since January 1, 1989 (Over and others, 2010). The adjustments were computed based on the regressions between the primary data series from ANL and the backup series using data obtained during common periods. The statistical properties of the regressions were used to assign estimated standard errors to values that were adjusted or filled from other series. The Illinois Climate Network (Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program, 2018) stations at St. Charles and DeKalb, Illinois, were used as "backup". Each data source flag is of the form "xyz", which allows the user to determine its source and the methods used to process the data (Over and others, 2010).
References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2018, Meteorological data, accessed on October 10, 2018, at http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/.
Bera, M., and Over, T.M., 2018, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, ​https://doi.org/10.5066/F7H1318R.     
Over, T.M., Price, T.H., and Ishii, A.L., 2010, Development and analysis of a meteorological database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1220, 67 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1220/.    
Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program, 2018, Illinois Climate Network: Champaign, Ill., Illinois State Water Survey, accessed on October 30, 2018, at http://dx.doi.org/10.13012/J8MW2F2Q.

Tags: argonne-national-laboratory-illinois, data-source-flag, dekalb-illinois, dupage-county-illinois, flood-forecasting, hydrology, ohare-international-airport-illinois, runoff, solar-radiation, st-charles-illinois, usgs-5bcf4cb1e4b0b3fc5cde149c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hourly dewpoint temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018

The text file "Dewpoint temperature.txt" contains hourly dewpoint temperature data in degrees Fahrenheit and associated data-source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2018. The primary data for water year 2018 (a water year is the 12-month period, October 1 through September 30, designated by the calendar year in which it ends) were downloaded from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN17.WDM (Bera and Over, 2018) and renamed as ARGN18.WDM. Missing and apparently erroneous data values were replaced with adjusted values from nearby weather stations used as “backup”. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center (Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2018) provided the hourly dewpoint temperature data collected by the National Weather Service at the station at O'Hare International Airport and was used as "backup". Each data source flag is of the form "xyz", which allows the user to determine its source and the methods used to process the data (Over and others, 2010). 
References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2018, Meteorological data, accessed on October 10, 2018, at http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/.     
Bera, M., and Over, T.M., 2018, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, ​https://doi.org/10.5066/F7H1318R.
Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2018, Meteorological data, accessed on October 12, 2018, at https://mrcc.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/.  
Over, T.M., Price, T.H., and Ishii, A.L., 2010, Development and analysis of a meteorological database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1220, 67 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1220/.

Tags: argonne-national-laboratory-illinois, data-source-flag, dekalb-illinois, dewpoint-temperature, dupage-county-illinois, flood-forecasting, hydrology, ohare-international-airport-illinois, runoff, st-charles-illinois, usgs-5bcf4c63e4b0b3fc5cde1490
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hourly computed potential evapotranspiration in thousandths of an inch, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018

The text file "PET.txt" contains hourly potential evapotranspiration (PET) data, in thousandths of an inch, from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2018. Daily PET were computed from average daily air temperature, average daily dewpoint temperature, daily total wind speed, and daily total solar radiation and disaggregated to hourly PET, using the Fortran program LXPET (Murphy, 2005). The primary source of the data is Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018), and data processing followed the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010).
References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2018, Meteorological data, accessed on October 10, 2018, at http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/.
Murphy, E.A., 2005, Comparison of potential evapotranspiration calculated by the LXPET (Lamoreux Potential Evapotranspiration) Program and by the WDMUtil (Watershed Data Management Utility) Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1020, 20 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20051020.
Over, T.M., Price, T.H., and Ishii, A.L., 2010, Development and analysis of a meteorological database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1220, 67 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1220/.

Tags: argonne-national-laboratory-illinois, dekalb-illinois, dupage-county-illinois, ohare-international-airport-illinois, potential-evapotranspiration, st-charles-illinois, usgs-5bcf4bdbe4b0b3fc5cde1481
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hourly air temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018

The text file "Air temperature.txt" contains hourly air temperature data in degrees Fahrenheit and associated data-source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2018. The primary data for water year 2018 (a water year is the 12-month period, October 1 through September 30, designated by the calendar year in which it ends) were downloaded from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN17.WDM (Bera and Over, 2018) and renamed as ARGN18.WDM. Missing and apparently erroneous data values were replaced with adjusted values from nearby weather stations used as “backup”. The Illinois Climate Network (Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program, 2018) station at St. Charles, Illinois, was used as "backup". Each data source flag is of the form "xyz", which allows the user to determine its source and the methods used to process the data (Over and others, 2010).
References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2018, Meteorological data, accessed on October 10, 2018, at http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/.    
Bera, M., and Over, T.M., 2018, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, ​https://doi.org/10.5066/F7H1318R.
Over, T.M., Price, T.H., and Ishii, A.L., 2010, Development and analysis of a meteorological database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1220, 67 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1220/.
Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program, 2018, Illinois Climate Network: Champaign, Ill., Illinois State Water Survey, accessed on October 30, 2018, at http://dx.doi.org/10.13012/J8MW2F2Q.

Tags: air-temperature, argonne-national-laboratory-illinois, data-source-flag, dekalb-illinois, dupage-county-illinois, flood-forecasting, hydrology, ohare-international-airport-illinois, runoff, st-charles-illinois, usgs-5bcf4ba2e4b0b3fc5cde1477
Organization: Department of the Interior
Frequency domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) data collected within and adjacent to the Little Wind River, Riverton, WY, USA

The electrical conductivity of the earth is used to help infer lithological and pore fluid properties.  Various geophysical methods can provide estimates of the distribution of below ground electrical conductivity, with each method having certain limitations.
This data release presents raw and processed results from land-based and water-based frequency domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) data collected from August 23, 2017 to August 28, 2017.  The raw data consist of .csv files from the Geophex GEM-2 unit.  Data were primarily collected by walking with the instrument at approximately 1 m off the ground in horizontal coplanar (ski flat) mode.  A survey along a section of the Little Wind River in a kayak (with about 0.3 m of elevation above the water surface) was also collected.

Tags: electromagnetic-surveying, environment, geophysics, geoscientific-information, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, little-wind-river, riverton, surface-water, usgs-5bce531fe4b0b3fc5cdc62b9, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geophysical data collected within and adjacent to the Little Wind River near Riverton, Wyoming

This data release contains geophysical data collected at the Little Wind River site near Riverton, Wyoming in 2015 and 2017.  The dataset contains:[1] Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing data (FO-DTS, August-September 2015) collected in the water along the river bank, [2] Electrical Resistivity Tomography data (ERT, August 2017) collected on land near the river bank, and [3] Frequency domain Electromagnetic Induction (EMI, August 2017) data collected along the river and more extensively throughout the study region. Data for each of these methods can be found in the child items linked below.

Tags: electrical-resistivity-imaging, electromagnetic-surveying, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, little-wind-river, riverton, surface-water, thermal, usgs-5bce4fc4e4b0f0758fc29236, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Juvenile lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) diets from annual Lake Huron fall bottom trawl surveys (2008-2017)

Diet analyses were performed on juvenile lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) captured by bottom trawl during annual USGS Great Lakes Science Center demersal fish community surveys in mid-October to mid-November 2008–2017 in Lake Huron. This dataset contains lake trout capture information (e.g., location, depth) and diet item data (taxa consumed and their associated lengths).

Tags: biota, fish, food-web, great-lakes, invertebrates, lake-huron, salvelinus-namaycush, usgs-5bce37d4e4b0f0758fc291d1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chemical and geophysical data collected along Oh-be-joyful Creek, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado

As part of their Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (SFA), Berkeley Lab and its collaborating institutions (e.g., USGS) have established a "Community Watershed" in the headwaters of the East River near Crested Butte, Colorado (USA), 
designed to quantify processes impacting the ability of mountainous systems to retain and release water, nutrients, carbon, and metals. The ongoing research spans a range of scales from hillslope to catchment to basin, with surface water and 
groundwater linking multiple geomorphic compartments. A major goal of this SFA research is to generate a transferable understanding of mountain hillslope to river dissolved nutrient, carbon, and metals transport, integrating extensive and novel 
field observations with fully coupled numerical models. The mountain headwater Oh-Be-Joyful Creek is part of the East River SFA located approximately 6 km northwest of the town of Crested Butte and is a key tributary of the Slate River. The creek 
is generally incised into bedrock (predominantly Mancos Shale) and many steeper sections have little to no bed sediment. Banks range from bedrock walls to avalanche and rock slide deposits. At an elevation of approximately 2900 m A.S.L., the 
regional Peeler fault intersects Oh-Be-Joyful Creek from the south creating a preferential groundwater discharge zone. This data release presents various water quality data collected along the Oh-be-joyful Creek from the main channel, groundwater discharge points, 
and small tributaries, including data collected during a constant rate dye injection near the Peeler fault zone.

Tags: colorado, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, gunnison-national-forest, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, measurement, oh-be-joyful-creek, seepage, surface-water, temperature, thermal, usgs-5bce1e54e4b0f0758fc290da
Organization: Department of the Interior
Toxicity of aluminum to Ceriodaphnia dubia in natural waters as affected by hardness and dissolved organic matter

Attributes regarding the influence of dissolved organic matter on chronic Al exposure and the effects on Ceriodaphnia dubia  survival and reproduction.

Tags: aluminum, bioavailablility, biota, chronic-toxicity, columbia-environmental-research-center, dissolved-organic-carbon, equilibrium, hardness, massachusetts, toxicity, usgs-5bcdf78ae4b0f0758fc28fda, water-chemistry, water-quality-standards
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potentiometric surface, Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, spring 2016, raster format, in meters

A potentiometric surface map for spring 2016 was created for the Mississippi River Valley alluvial (MRVA) aquifer, which was referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), using most of the available groundwater-altitude data from wells and surface-water-altitude data from streamgages. Most of the wells were measured annually or one time, after installation, but some wells were measured more than one time in a year and a small number of wells were measured continually. Streamgages were typically operated continuously. The potentiometric surface map for 2016 was created as part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Availability and Use Science Program to support investigations that characterize the MRVA aquifer. The potentiometric contours ranged from 10 feet to 340 feet above NAVD 88. The regional direction of groundwater flow was generally towards the south-southwest, except in areas of groundwater-altitude depressions, where groundwater flows into the depressions, and near rivers, where groundwater flow generally parallels the flow in the rivers. There are large depressions in the potentiometric surface in the lower half of the Cache region and in most of the Grand Prairie and Delta regions.

Tags: aquifers, arkansas, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, groundwater, groundwater-altitude, groundwater-levels, illinois, inlandwaters, kentucky, lmg, louisiana, lower-mississippi-gulf-water-science-center, map, mississippi, mississippi-alluvial-plain, mississippi-river-delta, mississippi-river-valley-alluvial-aquifer, missouri, mrva-aquifer, potentiometric-surface, surface-water-altitude, tennessee, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5bcde69ce4b0f0758fc18701, water-availability-and-use-science-program, water-table
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for mean random reflectance for products of hydrous pyrolysis experiments on artificial rock mixtures of humic Wyodak-Anderson coal (2018)

Mean random vitrinite reflectance (Ro) is the most widely accepted method to determine thermal maturity of coal and other sedimentary rocks. However, oil-immersion Ro of polished rock or kerogen samples is commonly lower than Ro values measured in samples from adjacent vitrinite-rich coals that have undergone the same level of thermal stress. So-called suppressed Ro values have also been observed in hydrous pyrolysis experiments designed to simulate petroleum formation. Various hypotheses to explain Ro suppression, such as sorption of products generated from liptinite during maturation, diagenetic formation of perhydrous vitrinite or overpressure, remain controversial. To experimentally test for suppression of vitrinite reflectance, artificial rock was prepared using silica and a calcined blend of limestone and clay with various proportions of thermally immature vitrinite-rich Wyodak-Anderson coal and liptinite-rich kerogen isolated from the oil-prone Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation. The samples were subjected to hydrous pyrolysis for 72 hr. at isothermal temperatures of 300 C, 330 C, and 350 C to simulate burial maturation. Compared to artificial rock that contains only coal, samples with different proportions of oil-prone kerogen show distinct suppression of calibrated Ro at 300 C and 330 C. The reflectance of solid bitumen generated during heating of the samples is lower than that of the associated vitrinite and does not interfere with the Ro measurements. These results provide the first experimental evidence that Ro suppression occurs in vitrinite mixed with liptinite-rich kerogen in a rock matrix. Although the precise chemical mechanism for Ro suppression by liptinite remains unclear, free radicals generated from solid bitumen and associated volatile products during maturation of liptinite may contribute to termination reactions that slow the aromatization and rearrangement of polyaromatic sheets in vitrinite, thus suppressing Ro. This mechanism does not preclude Ro suppression that might result from overpressure or differences in redox conditions during diagenesis.

Tags: artificial-rock, campbell-county, cathedral-creek, cenezoic-era, eocene-epoch, green-river-formation, hydrous-pyrolysis, liptinite, mahogany-ledge, paleogene-period, palocene-epoch, piceance-basin, rio-blanco-county, suppression, usgs-5bcde62de4b0f0758fc18167, vitrinite-reflectance, wyodak-anderson-seam
Organization: Department of the Interior