AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Linear and nonlinear effects of temperature and precipitation on ecosystem properties in tidal saline wetlands

Macroclimatic drivers, such as temperature and rainfall regimes, greatly influence ecosystem structure and function in tidal saline wetlands. Understanding the ecological influence of macroclimatic drivers is important because it provides a foundation for anticipating the effects of climate change. Tidal saline wetlands include mangrove forests, salt marshes, and salt flats, which occupy similar geomorphic settings but different climatic regimes. However, most global- or regional-scale analyses have treated these wetlands as independent systems. Here we used climate and literature-derived ecological data from all three systems, collected across targeted regional-scale macroclimatic gradients, to test hypotheses regarding macroclimatic controls of tidal saline wetland ecosystem properties, specifically canopy height, above-ground biomass, productivity, decomposition, soil carbon density, and soil carbon accumulation. We quantified region-specific climate based ecological thresholds for three data-rich transition zones including eastern North America, eastern Australia, and western Gulf of Mexico. The results of our analyses suggest that small macroclimatic changes might have large ecological implications near climatic thresholds. Our results also demonstrate that relationships between macroclimatic drivers and the ecosystem attributes of tidal saline wetlands are likely to be region-specific. The ecosystem-climate linkages revealed by our analysis should help to characterize important climatic thresholds for ecological regime shifts and could also be used to identify and target for conservation critical transition areas that may be especially sensitive to climate change.
This data release is comprised of the following two components:
1) Cell data (Vector data)
2) Point data (Vector data)

Tags: above-ground-biomass, canopy-height, climate-change, climate-gradients, climatic-drivers, climatic-thresholds, ecological-thresholds, environment, mangrove-forests, productivity, rainfall, salt-flats, salt-marshes, soil-carbon, temperature, usgs-58cc073ee4b0849ce97dce03
Organization: Department of the Interior
hawaii_slp - Coastal Slope along the coastal zone of Hawaii, Hawaii

Coastal Slope along the coastal zone of Hawaii, Hawaii

Tags: coast, coastal, coastal-plain, continental-island-shore-complex, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, hawaii, hawaii-ecoregion, island, kauai, lanai, land-surface-characteristics, maui, molokai, oahu, oceans, pacific, slope, usgs-24601a23-714c-4bfa-9f82-7712bc848557
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Reach Catchments and Modified Routed Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Annual Average Actual Evapotranspiration (millimeters) from 2014 - 2015

This tabular data set represents annual average actual evapotranspiration values (millimeters) described in Wolock and McCabe (2017), compiled for the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusV2) for the conterminous United States for the years 2014 and 2015. Linkage of the actual evapotranspiration data with NHDPlusV2 is achieved through the common unique identifier COMID. The actual evapotranspiration values are estimated both for: 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. The reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale, whereas the catchments accumulated through the river network characterize cumulative upstream conditions.  The network-accumulated values are derived using two methods: 1) divergence routing and 2) total upstream routing. Both approaches use a modified routing database (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2017) to navigate the NHDPlusV2 reach network and to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale.

Tags: actual-evapotranspiration, catchment, inlandwaters, nawqa, nhdplus, sparrow, usgs-57ffb2c4e4b0824b2d16f4c3, water-balance-model
Organization: Department of the Interior
Model Archive and Data Release: Input data, trained model data, and model outputs for predicting streamflow and base flow for the Mississippi Embayment Regional Study Area using a random forest model

This data archive contains datasets developed for the purpose of training and applying random forest models to the Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer. The random forest models are designed to predict total stream flow and baseflow as a function of a combination of watershed characteristics and monthly weather data. These datasets are associated with a report (SIR 2022-xxxx) and code contained in a USGS GitLab repository. The GitLab repository (https://code.usgs.gov/map/maprandomforest/) contains much more information about how these data may be used to supply predictions of stream flow and baseflow.

Tags: arkansas, baseflow, inlandwaters, louisiana, mississippi, mississippi-river-delta, missouri, statistical-analysis, streamflow, tennessee, usgs-5f32c66b82cee144fb313867
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Surface Models (DSM) from UAS surveys of the upper reservoir delta at Jenkinson Lake, El Dorado County, California

This portion of the data release presents high-resolution Digital Surface Models (DSM) of the Jenkinson Lake upper reservoir delta in El Dorado County, California. The DSMs have resolutions of 10 centimeters per pixel and were derived from structure-from-motion (SfM) processing of aerial imagery collected during surveys with unoccupied aerial systems (UAS). The surveys were on 2021-10-13, 2021-11-04, 2022-10-25, and 2023-11-13, and were generally timed to coincide with low water level in the reservoir to maximize sub-aerial coverage. The raw imagery used to create the orthomosaics was acquired with a UAS quadcopter fitted with a Ricoh GR II digital camera featuring a global shutter. The UAS was flown on pre-programmed autonomous flight lines spaced to provide approximately 70 percent overlap between images from adjacent lines, from an approximate altitude of 100 meters above ground level (AGL), resulting in a nominal ground-sample-distance (GSD) of 2.6 centimeters per pixel. The raw imagery was geotagged using positions from the UAS onboard single-frequency autonomous GPS. Survey control was established using temporary ground control points (GCPs) consisting of a combination of small square tarps with black-and-white cross patterns and temporary chalk marks placed on the ground. The GCP positions were measured using dual-frequency real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS with corrections referenced to a static base station operating nearby. The images and GCP positions were used for structure-from-motion (SfM) processing to create topographic point clouds, high-resolution orthomosaic images, and DSMs. The DSMs are provided in a cloud optimized GeoTIFF format with internal overviews and masks to facilitate cloud-based queries and display.

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, aerial-photography, altimetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, chmrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, el-dorado-county, elevation, fires, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hazel-creek, image-mosaics, jenkinson-lake, orthophotography, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, photography, remote-sensing, sly-park-creek, state-of-california, structure-from-motion, topographic-maps, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usgs, usgs-667c5976d34e828a20a696d5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database -- Australasia

This contains the Australasian portion of the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database. The HDMA database provides comprehensive and consistent global coverage of raster and vector topographically derived layers, including raster layers of digital elevation model (DEM) data, flow direction, flow accumulation, slope, and compound topographic index (CTI); and vector layers of streams and catchment boundaries. The coverage of the data is global (-180º, 180º, -90º, 90º) with the underlying DEM being a hybrid of three datasets: HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales), Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). For most of the globe south of 60º North, the raster resolution of the data is 3-arc-seconds, corresponding to the resolution of the SRTM. For the areas North of 60º, the resolution is 7.5-arc-seconds (the smallest resolution of the GMTED2010 dataset) except for Greenland, where the resolution is 30-arc-seconds. The streams and catchments are attributed with Pfafstetter codes, based on a hierarchical numbering system, that carry important topological information.

Tags: australia-and-new-zealand, dem-stream-hydrologic-derivatives-pfafstetter, digital-elevation-models, elevation, hawaii, inlandwaters, pfafstetter, streams, usgs-591f1dece4b0ac16dbdde04b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Assessing the Effectiveness of Nourishment in Decadal Barrier Island Morphological Resilience: Model Inputs and Outputs (Storm_186_Elevations_NA)

Using version 5527 of the XBeach numerical model (Roelvink and others, 2009), barrier island morphological change was simulated at Dauphin Island, Alabama (AL), for a 30-year forecast of multiple storms and sea level rise, considering scenarios of no-action and beach and dune nourishment as described in Passeri and others (2021). The two-dimensional XBeach model can be applied to barrier islands to solve for time-dependent topography and bathymetry. The XBeach model setup requires the input of topographic and bathymetric elevations at each grid cell. Model inputs and outputs in the form of topography and bathymetry at each grid cell are provided in this data release. For further information regarding model input generation and visualization of model output, refer to Passeri and others (2021).

Tags: alabama, barrier-island-migration, bathymetry, coastal-processes, dauphin-island, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, marine-geology, morphologic-change, oceans, sea-level-change, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, storm-surge, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-4899b83a-8f5f-41af-b89f-c09416f75f41
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thickness of Coarse-Grained Sediment within the Glacial Deposits

The glacial aquifer system of the United States encompasses all or parts of 25 states and is the most widely used supply of drinking water in the Nation (Maupin and Barber, 2005; Maupin and Arnold, 2010). A series of seven raster data sets were derived from a database of water-well drillers' records that was compiled in partial fulfillment of the goals of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Groundwater Availability and Use assessment program (U.S. Geological Survey, 2002). They contain hydrogeologic information for areas of the U.S. that are north of the southern limit of Pleistocene glaciation, including the total thickness of glacial deposits, thickness of coarse-grained sediment within the glacial deposits, specific-capacity based horizontal hydraulic conductivity and transmissivity of coarse-grained sediment within the glacial deposits, texture-based estimated equivalent horizontal and vertical hydraulic conductivity of the glacial deposits, and texture-based estimated equivalent transmissivity of the glacial deposits. The raster data sets are available for download in both American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) and Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Grid formats. These data have value for regional studies of water availability and aquifer vulnerability.

Tags: aquifer, coarse, connecticut, deposits, environment, geoscientificinformation, glacial, gravel, groundwater, hydraulic-conductivity, hydrogeology, idaho, illinois, indiana, inlandwaters, iowa, kansas, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, montana, nebraska, new-hampshire, new-york, north-dakota, ohio, pennsylvania, rhode-island, sand, sediment, south-dakota, specific-capacity, thickness, transmissivity, usgs-5878cee9e4b04df303d958cb, vermont, water-availability, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
HW1_Q10.TIF - Hawaii I - Southeastern Hawaiian Ridge U.S. EEZ GLORIA sidescan-sonar data mosaic (10 of 29) (LCC, 50 m, WGS84)

Survey of the southeastern Hawaiian Ridge was the fifth major segment of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) mapping program to have been initiated. Data acquisition for this region required approximately one-half year and were acquired during eight cruises over a four year period from 1986 through 1989, skipping 1987. At the conclusion of the survey 29 mosaics of a 2 degree by 2 degree were completed for the region. As in earlier EEZ reconnaissance surveys, the USGS utilized the GLORIA (Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic) sidescan-sonar system to complete the geologic mapping. The collected GLORIA data were processed and digitally mosaicked to produce continuous imagery of the seafloor. A total of twenty-seven digital mosaics of a 2 degree by 2 degree area and 2 mosaics of 2.25 degree by 2 degree with a 50-meter pixel resolution were completed for the region.

Tags: acoustic-receivers, acoustic-reflectivity, alika-slides, backscatter, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-island-rise, continental-island-slope, distributions, east-pacific-rise, eez, exclusive-economic-zone, exclusive-economic-zone-eez, geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, geoscientificinformation, geotiff-image, gloria, gloria-gt-geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, grey-scale-image, hawaii, hawaii-ecoregion, hawaii-islands, hawaiian-arch, hawaiian-deep, hawaiian-emperor-chain, hawaiian-ridge, hilina-slump, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, infobank-identifier-f-10-88-hw, infobank-identifier-f-12-89-hw, infobank-identifier-f-3-88-hw, infobank-identifier-f-4-88-hw, infobank-identifier-f-5-86-hw, infobank-identifier-f-5-88-hw, infobank-identifier-f-6-86-hw, infobank-identifier-f-6-88-hw, island-of-hawaii, kauai, kauai-fracture-zone, loihi-seamount, marine-basin-floor, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-oceanic, molokai, molokai-fracture-zone, necker-island, necker-ridge, nihoa-island, niihau, nuuanu-wailou-debris-avalanches, oahu, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean-gt-central-pacific-ocean, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean-gt-central-pacific-ocean-gt-hawaiian-islands, oceans, oceans-gt-ocean-acoustics-gt-acoustic-reflectivity, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, shemya-island, side-scan-sonar, sidescan-sonar, sidescan-sonar-mosaic, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-214b3532-d858-44bc-9e56-ed51ee57918b, wcmg, western-coastal-and-marine-geology
Organization: Department of the Interior
DS888-metadata: EAARL-B Coastal Topography—Fire Island, New York, pre-Hurricane Sandy, 2012: Seamless (Bare Earth and Submerged)

American Standard Code Information Interchange XYZ and binary point-cloud data, as well as a seamless (bare-earth and submerged) digital elevation model for part of Fire Island, New York, pre-Hurricane Sandy (October 2012 hurricane), were produced from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements by the U.S. Geological Survey. Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the second-generation Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar, a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography. The system uses high-frequency laser beams directed at the Earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The plane travels over the target area at approximately 55 meters per second at an elevation of approximately 300 meters, resulting in a laser swath of approximately 240 meters with an average point spacing of 0.5–1.6 meters. The nominal vertical elevation accuracy expressed as the root mean square error (RMSE) is 5.24 centimeters for the bare earth topography. Additional data were insufficient to calculate an RMSE for the submerged topography. A peak sampling rate of 15–30 kilohertz results in an extremely dense spatial elevation dataset. More than 100 kilometers of coastline can be surveyed easily within a 3- to 4-hour mission. When resultant elevation maps for an area are analyzed, they provide a useful tool to make management decisions regarding land development.

Tags: 2012, airborne-lidar-processing-system, alps, altimetry, atlantic-ocean, bathymetry-and-elevation, cessna-310, dem, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, distributions, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, eaarl-b, elevation, experimental-advanced-airborne-research-lidar, land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, laser-altimetry, lidar, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, new-york, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-barrier-islands, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-beaches, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-shoreline-displacement, pre-hurricane-sandy, remote-sensing, suffolk, topographic-mapping, topography, usgs-9ef49dd8-f00e-4834-ab39-11509dbcd138
Organization: Department of the Interior
False River

Nutrient and phytoplankton data indicate poor environmental health in four oxbow lakes in central Louisiana suggesting that long-term agriculture practices and increases in shoreline development have accelerated eutrophication. Surface-water quality and phytoplankton indicators of eutrophication were examined at Lake Bruin, Lake St. John, Lake St. Joseph, and False River Lake along an eutrophication gradient. These oxbow lakes are cut-off meanders of the Mississippi River that do not receive overbank flow from the river due to the levee system built in the early twentieth century. Oxbows have formed at various times in the last few hundred years as the Mississippi River carves a more efficient hydrologic route to the Gulf of Mexico and exhibit a succession of stages in lake evolution, from deep and oligotrophic to shallow and eutrophic.
Water-quality samples were collected three times per year: once in late spring, once in late summer-early fall, and once in winter. Water samples were analyzed for major ions, nutrients, suspended sediments, pesticides, dissolved organic carbon, and chlorophyll. At each site, physiochemical properties (water temperature, specific conductance, dissolved oxygen, and pH) were recorded at multiple depths within a single vertical profile. Phytoplankton community samples and cyanotoxin samples were collected from the photic zone at the time of water-quality sample collection at one site per lake. This data release provides water quality profile and phytoplankton data for these lakes.

Tags: algae, phytoplankton, surface-water-quality, usgs-5a6a029ce4b06e28e9c8a57c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric data from Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky, 2016-2019, station sfm045

This dataset consists of 127 wideband and 21 long-period magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected from 2016-2019 across parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) acquired these data as part of regional investigations into the geologic and tectonic framework of the area and to support mineral resource and geologic hazard investigations. These data have been used to generate a 3D regional conductivity model of the area. Files included in this publication include measured electric- and magnetic-field time series as well as estimated impedance and vertical-magnetic field transfer functions. The data included here are for MT station sfm045 in the Reelfoot Rift survey region. A shapefile with station information for all stations in this dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9F7HFH7.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, arkansas, conductivity, electromagnetic-surveying, exploration, geologic-structure, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, illinois, impedance, kentucky, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, mississippi-embayment, missouri, mrp, mt, ozark-plateau, phanerozoic, phase, precambrian, quaternary, reelfoot-rift, saint-francois-mountains, tectonics, tennessee, time-series, tipper, usgs-5f8989f582cef33f43f41cf9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric grid representing single beam data during field activity 2020-015-FA offshore Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro MA on March 10, 2020

The data in this release map the beach and nearshore environment at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, MA and provide environmental context for the camera calibration information for the 2019 CoastCam installation that looks out at the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. This is related to the field activity 2020-015-FA and a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region that falls within the field of view of the CoastCam, which are two video cameras aimed at the beach. On March 4, 6, and 10, 2020, U.S Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to collect position and orientation information for the CoastCam cameras and map the field of view. Elevation data were collected using a real time kinematic – satellite navigation system (RTK-GNSS) receiver attached to a pole and walked on the beach. Point data of the beach face were collected along transects and at periodic locations of plywood targets moved throughout the day within the CoastCam view. Grain-size analysis was performed on sediment samples collected with a spade along multiple profiles from the bluff base to the intertidal zone. Images of the beach were taken with a camera (Ricoh GRII) and a post-processed kinematic (PPK) system attached to a kitesurfing kite, and high-precision targets (AeroPoints) were used as ground control points. Bathymetry was collected in the nearshore using a single-beam echosounder mounted on a surf capable self-righting electric autonomous survey vehicle. Agisoft Metashape (v. 1.6.1) was used to create a digital elevation model with the collected imagery and this was merged with the bathymetry in MatLab (v. 2020) to create a continuous topobathy product.

Tags: bathymetry, cape-cod-national-seashore, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, elevation, geoscientificinformation, head-of-the-meadow-beach, massachusetts, oceans, remote-sensing, single-beam-echo-sounder, truro, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-3ef20127-afb6-44c0-a599-b1c3a3ccde48, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survival and hydrodynamic behavior of grass carp eggs and larvae in relation to turbulence and in-stream obstructions

Data collected from a comprehensive set of hydrodynamic experiments conducted with live grass carp eggs and larvae, to evaluate drifting and swimming patterns with 3 different in-stream obstructions: (1) a gravel bump, (2) a single cylinder, and (3) submerged vegetation. The hydrodynamic behavior of eggs and larvae with each obstruction was continuously monitored for about 85 consecutive hours. Transient spatial distributions of the locations of eggs and larvae across the water column were generated for each flow scenario.

Tags: biota, fish, grass-carp, mortality, swimming-behavior, transport, transport-of-eggs-and-larvae, turbulence, usgs-5dfb93d5e4b0b5e61c0732a2
Organization: Department of the Interior