AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Sequoia foliage dieback and tree-ring data from Sequoia National Park

These datasets provide spatially-explicit estimates of the magnitude of giant sequoia foliage dieback along selected trail corridors in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, California, from 2014 through 2017.  They additionally provide giant sequoia tree-ring measurements, through the year 1989, for two locations in the Giant Forest grove, Sequoia National Park, California.
These data support the following publications:
Nathan L. Stephenson, Adrian J. Das, Nicholas J. Ampersee, Kathleen G. Cahill, Anthony C. Caprio, John E. Sanders, A. Park Williams, Patterns and correlates of giant sequoia foliage dieback during California’s 2012–2016 hotter drought, Forest Ecology and Management, Available online 7 November 2017, ISSN 0378-1127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.10.053.
Martin, R. E., G. P. Asner, E. Francis, A. Ambrose, W. Baxter, A. J. Das, N. R. Vaughn, T. Paz-Kagan, T. Dawson, K. Nydick, and N. L. Stephenson.  Submitted.  Remote measurement of canopy water content in giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) during drought.  Submitted to special section in Forest Ecology and Management.

Tags: biota, environment, forest-ecosystems, forest-vulnerability, leaf-senescence, sequoia-tree, sequoiadendron-giganteum, tree-rings, usgs-59f77a81e4b063d5d30869b3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Salinity_na_tropical: Modeling the effects of large-scale interior headland restoration on tidal hydrodynamics and salinity transport in an open coast, marine-dominant estuary: model input and results

Using version 20.1_19 of the Discontinuous-Galerkin Shallow Water Equations Model (DG-SWEM) (Kubatko and others, 2006), astronomic tides and salinity transport were simulated at Grand Bay, Alabama (AL), under scenarios of interior headland restoration and sea level rise, as described in Passeri and others (2023). The two-dimensional DG-SWEM model can be applied to coastal and estuarine systems to solve for time-dependent hydrodynamic circulation and salinity transport. The DG-SWEM model uses the ADCIRC framework (Luettich and others, 1992) and requires inputs of an unstructured finite element mesh. For this study, the mesh domain has an open ocean boundary in the Gulf of Mexico and has higher spatial resolution elements (20 - 100 meters (m)) along the Mississippi and Alabama coast. The model mesh coordinates (latitude and longitude) and simulated average salinity concentrations are included in this data release. For further information regarding model input generation and visualization of model output, refer to Passeri and others (2023).

Tags: alabama, bathymetry, coastal-processes, digital-elevation-models, elevation, estuarine-processes, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay, gulf-of-mexico, north-america, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, tides-oceanic, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-1b467cb2-2233-470a-ab00-05f7b29b6cb2
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Pacific Coast - 2002

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of the 1) unvegetated fraction, 2) vegetated fraction, 3) water fraction and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the year 2002. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States.

Tags: california, coastal-wetlands, conterminous-united-states, fractional-cover, oregon, pacific, unvegetated, unvegetated-to-vegetated-ratio, usgs-66e1d088d34ecba8b8677883, uvvr, vegetation, washington, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Daily Streamflow Traces for 26 sites on the Souris River in North Dakota and Saskatchewan, Developed from Stochastic Modeling

There are 100 traces in the simulation. This metadata file is only associated with the first trace (Trace_1).
This directory contains a folder for each of the 100 streamflow time series and are identified as Trace_1, Trace_2, and so on. Within each trace file is a 100-year long time series of streamflow, in cubic meters per second, for each of the 26 sites. In column A, there is a row number, column B is the date of the stochastic streamflow occurrence, column C is a time assignment required for HEC-ResSim to run, and column D contains “Streamflow_cms” and is streamflow in cubic meters per second.

Tags: 10-day, 30-monthly, manitoba, meteorology, north-dakota, saskatchewan, souris-river, stream-discharge, usgs-60ae89a8d34e4043c85395e7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for Ecosystem service flows from a migratory species: spatial subsidies of the northern pintail

Migratory species provide important benefits to society, but their cross-border conservation poses serious challenges. By quantifying the economic value of ecosystem services (ES) provided across a species’ range and ecological data on a species’ habitat dependence, we estimate spatial subsidies–how different regions support ES provided by a species across its range. We illustrate this method for migratory Northern Pintail ducks in North America. Pintails support over $101 million annually in recreational hunting and viewing and subsistence hunting in the U.S. and Canada. Pintail breeding regions provide nearly $30 million in subsidies to wintering regions, with the “Prairie Pothole” region supplying over $24 million in annual benefits to other regions. This information can be used to inform conservation funding allocation among migratory regions and nations on which the pintail depends. We thus illustrate a transferrable method to quantify migratory species-derived ES and provide information to aid in their transboundary conservation.

Tags: canada, migration, northern-pintail-duck, spatial-subsidies, species-conservation, telecoupling, transborder-conservation, united-states, usgs-5a13363de4b09fc93dce650e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Assessing the Effectiveness of Nourishment in Decadal Barrier Island Morphological Resilience: Model Inputs and Outputs (Storm_257_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-ff699856-3a3a-48b9-983b-1101704e55a3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Catalog of induced earthquakes without duplicates for the central and eastern U.S.

A methodology has been developed at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for making earthquake catalogs for seismic hazard analysis.  A new catalog is assembled from several preexisting catalogs.  Uniform moment magnitudes and related parameters for estimating unbiased seismicity rates are calculated.  Duplicates, explosions, mining-related earthquakes, and induced earthquakes are flagged, and the catalog is declustered.  Distinct catalogs are made for the central and eastern U.S. and the western U.S.  This data set is the catalog of induced earthquakes without duplicates for the central and eastern U.S.

Tags: alabama, arkansas, colorado, earthquake, florida, hazard, induced, kansas, louisiana, natural, new-mexico, ohio, oklahoma, pennsylvania, seismic, texas, united-states, usa, usgs-5ad7715de4b0e2c2dd256bba, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
CoSMoS (Coastal Storm Modeling System) Southern California v3.0 Phase 2 flood-hazard depth and duration projections: 1-year storm in the Channel Islands

Maximum depth of flooding surface (in cm) in the region landward of the present day shoreline that is inundated for the storm condition and sea-level rise (SLR) scenario indicated. Note: Duration datasets may have occasional gaps in open-coast sections.
The Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) makes detailed predictions (meter-scale) over large geographic scales (100s of kilometers) of storm-induced coastal flooding and erosion for both current and future sea-level rise (SLR) scenarios. CoSMoS v3.0 for Southern California shows projections for future climate scenarios (sea-level rise and storms) to provide emergency responders and coastal planners with critical storm-hazards information that can be used to increase public safety, mitigate physical damages, and more effectively manage and allocate resources within complex coastal settings.
Model details and data sources are outlined in CoSMoS_3.0_Phase_2_Southern_California_Bight:_Summary_of_data_and_methods (available at https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/57f1d4f3e4b0bc0bebfee139?name=CoSMoS_SoCalv3_Phase2_summary_of_methods.pdf). Phase 2 data for Southern California include flood-hazard information for the coast from the border of Mexico to Pt. Conception to include the Channel Islands. Please read the Summary of Methods and inspect output carefully.  Data are complete for the information presented.

Tags: beaches, channel-islands, climate-change, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, coastal-erosion, earth-sciences, effects-of-climate-change, erosion, extreme-weather, floods, hazards-planning, mathematical-modeling, ocean-waves, ocean-winds, oceans, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, southern-california, state-of-california, storm-surge, storms, usgs-58d011bae4b0236b68f52a86, water-depth, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field spectra from the Niobrara River, Nebraska, August 15-18, 2016

The U.S. Geological Survey collected field spectra collected from the Niobrara River in Nebraska August 15–18, 2016, to support research on remote sensing of river discharge. Reflectance measurements were made by wading the Niobrara River near Norden Notch  using an Analytical Spectral Devices FieldSpec3 spectroradiometer operated in reflectance mode. The original *.asd files are provided in this data release.

Tags: field-spectra, usgs-59484d50e4b062508e34449d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aeromagnetic data and horizontal gradient maxima of Blythe, California, and Surrounding Areas in California and Arizona

This data release provides access to an aeromagnetic survey and magnetization boundaries over Blythe, California and surrounding areas in southern California and western Arizona.  The survey extends east of Joshua Tree National Park across the Colorado River and west over the Dome Rock, Trigo, and Plomosa Mountains in Arizona.  The survey was flown north of the Chocolate Mountains Gunnery Range over the McCoy, Palen, Granite, Iron, and Big and Little Maria Mountains. These data were acquired between January 22 and February 24, 2022, by Eon Geosciences Inc., working under contract to the U.S. Geological Survey.  The nominal flying height was based on a best fit, pre-planned, three-dimensional draped surface targeted at 305 m above terrain and a slope of 7%, subject to aircraft climb and descent limitations. Steep terrain in parts of the survey area required significant departures locally from the pre-planned drape surface (as much as 1012 m), and therefore variable terrain clearance should be considered when modeling and interpreting these data.  Flight lines were spaced 600 m apart and directed N40E; tie lines were spaced 6000 m apart and directed N50W.  A total of 22,273 line-kilometers were acquired over an area of approximately 12,310 square kilometers.  The details of the Blythe aeromagnetic survey are described in the document Blythe_Tech_Report_508.pdf available for download in this data release.  This report was prepared by Eon Geosciences Inc., and has not been edited. In addition, horizontal gradient maxima (blythe_mag_grad.csv) were calculated from the magnetic potential derived from 
these data to produce locations of crustal magnetization contrasts.

Tags: big-maria-mountains, blythe, cibola, colorado-river, geoscientificinformation, iron-mountains, palo-verde, usgs-62c8d98ad34eeb1417bb1a94
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 253040  Waiowa

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-58d011bae4b0236b68f52a84, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unioned layer for the South Carbon coalfield, Wyoming (scfing)

This ArcView shapefile contains a polygon representation of numerous themes associated with the Johnson-107 coal zone in the South Carbon coalfield, Carbon Basin, Wyoming.  The purpose of this shapefile is to allow the user to perform multiple theme queries.  This theme was created specifically for the National Coal Resource Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains Region.

Tags: carbon-basin, carbon-county, coal, economy, environment, geoscientificinformation, hannabasincoal, johnson-107-coal-zone, national-coal-resource-assessment, nca2000, northern-rocky-mountain-and-great-plains-coal-resources-assessment, northern-rocky-mountains-and-great-plains-region, nrockiescoal, query-layer, south-carbon-coalfield, union-coverage, usgs-60ad2198d34e4043c850e7ac, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 - KYANITE Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the KYANITE data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024.

Tags: andalusite, kyanite, mullite, nonmetallic-mineral-resources, sillimanite, usgs-65b7d7edd34e36a39045b4e1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sedimentological and radiochemical characteristics of marsh deposits from Assateague Island and adjacent vicinity, Maryland and Virginia, following Hurricane Sandy

The influence of tropical and extratropical cyclones on coastal wetlands and marshes is highly variable in both space and time and depends on a number of climatic, geologic, and physical variables.  The impacts storms can be either positive or negative with respect to the wetland and marsh ecosystems. Small to moderate amounts of inorganic sediment added during storms or other events helps to abate pressure from sea-level rise.  However, if the volume of sediment is large and the resulting deposits thick, the organic substrate may compact causing submergence and a loss in elevation.  Similarly, thick deposits of coarse inorganic sediment may also alter the hydrology of the site and impede vegetative processes.  Alternative impacts associated with storms include shoreline erosion at the marsh edge as well as potential emergence.  Predicting the outcome of these various responses and potential long-term implications can be obtained from a systematic assessment of both historical and recent event deposits.  The objectives of this study are to 1) characterize the surficial sediment of the relict to recent washover fans and back-barrier marshes, and 2) characterize the sediment of 6 marsh cores from the back-barrier marshes and a single marsh island core near the mainland.  These geologic data will be integrated with other remote sensing data collected along Assateague Island, Maryland / Virginia and assimilated into an assessment of coastal wetland response to storms.

Tags: april-2014, assateague-island, back-barrier, barometric-pressure, dissolved-oxygen, easting, elevation, latitude, longitude, march-2014, marsh, maryland, northing, october-2014, overwash, oxidation-reduction-potential, ph, salinity, sampling-date, sediment, specific-conductance, subsurface, surface, temperature, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, usgs, usgs-a491de07-9349-4a9d-b34c-0d38f7380733, virginia, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Continuous marine seismic-reflection surveys and derived depth-to-bedrock point data from the East River, New York City, New York

This data release contains data from five seismic-reflection surveys in New York’s East River between Governors Island and the Queensboro Bridge. Data are provided in the original proprietary data format, a SEGy data exchange format, and as a shape file of locations and depths to bedrock. Depths to bedrock were derived from the seismic signal travel time and an assumed speed of sound of 5,000 feet/second.

Tags: bedrock-geologic-units, east-river, kings-county, new-york, new-york-county, seismic-reflection-methods, usgs-636bfbe2d34ed907bf6abaa9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 4900 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 2021 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. Five previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, and 2018). 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-653c1ec1d34ee4b6e05bc482, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streamwater constituent load data, models, and estimates for 15 watersheds in DeKalb County, Georgia, 2012-2016

This data release contains eight datasets and metadata related to streamwater constituent load estimation and E. coli bacteria concentration predictions at 15 watersheds in DeKalb County, Georgia for 2012 to 2016 (the water-quality model calibration data goes through 9/22/2017 and the water-quality assurance samples goes through 11/7/2017). Loads were estimated for 15 constituents: biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids, suspended sediment concentration, total nitrogen, total nitrate plus nitrite, total phosphorus, dissolved phosphorus, total organic carbon, total calcium, total magnesium, total copper, total lead, total zinc, and total dissolved solids. The data release includes the following eight datasets: (1) daily base-flow separation results that were used as explanatory variables in the load estimation models; (2) water-quality assurance sample concentrations; (3) laboratory standard reference sample concentrations; (4) water-quality outliers that were excluded from the calibration datasets used in regression models for estimating streamwater constituent loads and E. coli bacteria concentrations; (5) calibration datasets containing explanatory variables for modeling constituent loads; (6) model coefficients and model diagnostic statistics used to estimate streamwater constituent loads, including portable document format files (pdf) with reports and plots for evaluating model fits; (7) time-step data used for estimating loads from the model coefficients; and (8) annual and period of record streamwater constituent load and yield estimates, including the 95-percent confidence intervals of the estimates.

Tags: bacteria, inlandwaters, laboratory-quality-control, streamflow, streamwater-constituent-loads, surface-water-quality, usgs-5f2d541982ceae4cb3c2f27a, water-quality-assurance
Organization: Department of the Interior