AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Global biomes for the Last Interglacial period (127-119 ka) simulated by BIOME4 using CESM2-CISM2 coupled climate-ice sheet model data

This data release contains: 1) the BIOME4-simulated biome data used to create Sommers et al. (2021) Figures 2, 6, S6, and S7; 2) the CESM2-CISM2 calendar-adjusted temperature data used to create Sommers et al. (2021) Figures 2, 7, S2-S5, and S8-S11; and 3) land, ice, and ocean mask data and continent and ice sheet outline files.  Additional CESM2-CISM2 simulation data described in Sommers et al. (2021) are available from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Digital Asset Services Hub (DASH; https://doi.org/10.5065/as0j-6387).

Tags: cesm2, climate-change, cmip6, holocene, mathematical-simulation, pleistocene, pmip4, usgs-60706e5bd34ef998701adc94, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulated rangewide big sagebrush regeneration estimates and relationships with abiotic variables as function of soils under historical and future climate projections

These NetCDF data were compiled to investigate how two complementary models can contribute to our understanding of contemporary and future big sagebrush regeneration across the historical and potential future sagebrush region. Objective of our study was to apply both models to address three specific objectives: (i) examine the geographic patterns of big sagebrush regeneration probabilities that the two different models project under historical conditions and future climate scenarios; (ii) quantify the robustness of model projections, e.g., the consistency among climate models in projected changes in regeneration for future time periods; and (iii) identify how model predictions for regeneration potential relate to environmental site characteristics like climate, soil moisture, and soils. Big sagebrush regeneration was modeled based on daily meteorological and ecohydrological variables across the historical and potential future geographic range of big sagebrush distribution in the western United States. 	  
These data represent the simulated potential of big sagebrush regeneration representing (i) range-wide big sagebrush regeneration responses in natural vegetation (process-based model, Schlaepfer et al. 2014) and (ii) big sagebrush restoration seeding outcomes following fire in the Great Basin and the Snake River Plains (regression-based model, Shriver et al. 2018) as well as soil moisture and climatic variables for recent climate 1980-2010, and for future projected climate represented by all available climate models under two representative concentration pathways (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) at two time periods during the 21st century (2020-2050 and 2070-2099) at 10-km resolution based on a simulation experiment described in Bradford et al. 2019 using the SOILWAT2 ecosystem water balance model (Schlaepfer et al. 2021). These data were created by a collaborative research project between the U.S. Geological Survey and Yale University.

Tags: 10-km-resolution, arizona, atmospheric-and-climatic-processes, biota, california, climate-change, colorado, ecological-processes, ecosystems, effects-of-climate-change, future-projected-climate, geoscientificinformation, idaho, montana, nebraska, nevada, new-mexico, north-dakota, oregon, process-based-model, recent-climate, regeneration, regression-based-model, restoration, soil-moisture, soilwat2, south-dakota, terrestrial-ecosystems, texas, usgs-606f522ed34ef99870188d78, utah, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Active &amp; inactive mines in the Danforth Hills study area (danmng)

Active and inactive coal mine polygons in the Danforth
Hills study area.

Tags: active, coal, coal-mines, colorado-plateau, cplateaucoal, danforth-hills, dhillscoal, economy, environment, geoscientificinformation, inactive, nca2000, piceance-basin, usgs-60a8041fd34ea221ce4e5493
Organization: Department of the Interior
Danforth Hills coal lease areas, Colorado Plateau (danleasg.shp)

Coal lease areas contained within the Danforth Hills
coal field.

Tags: coal, colorado-plateau, cplateaucoal, danforth-hills, dhillscoal, economy, environment, geoscientificinformation, leased-area, lmu, logical-mining-unit, nca2000, piceance-basin, usgs-60a80304d34ea221ce4e542f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Distribution, frequency, and global extent of hypoxia in rivers

To assess the distribution, frequency, and global extent of riverine hypoxia, we compiled 118 million paired dissolved oxygen (DO) and water temperature measurements from 125,158 unique locations in rivers in 93 countries and territories across the globe. The dataset also includes site characteristics derived from StreamCat, the National Hydrography and HydroAtlas datasets and proximal land cover derived from MODIS-based IGBP land cover types compiled using Google Earth Engine (GEE).

Tags: environment, global, hypoxia, inlandwaters, land-cover, metabolism, nep, oxygen-content-water, respiration, rivers, slope, temperature, usgs-606f60afd34ef99870188ee5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Refined principal aquifer boundaries for New Mexico, United States

This polygon vector dataset, delineating principal aquifers in New Mexico, is a clipped and refined version of the original principal aquifers of the United States shapefile (U.S. Geological Survey, 2019).

Tags: aquifer, aquifer-geology, aquifer-hydrology, boundaries, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, usgs-606f6634d34ef99870188f75
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streambank topographic lidar survey of the French Broad River near the Interstate 26 bridge located south of Asheville, NC – November 2019, Pre-construction

In January 2020, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) began work on the Interstate 26 (I 26) highway widening project that involves a bridge crossing over the French Broad River (FBR) near Asheville, North Carolina. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the NCDOT, conducted a streambank light detection and ranging (lidar) survey of the streambanks of the French Broad River in November of 2019, approximately two months before construction began. The survey extended from 300 meters (m) upstream to 700 m downstream from the bridge. Two georeferenced lidar scans were collected; one of the right-descending bank and one of the left-descending bank.  Three-dimensional points of the streambank were collected with a canoe-mounted Optech ILRIS three-dimensional laser scanner and an Applanix Position and Orientation Solution for Marine Vessels (POS-MV) WaveMaster inertial navigation system (INS), which consists of dual Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers and an inertial motion unit. The lidar scanner creates a “point cloud” of lidar returns and the INS computes the position and orientation of the points in three-dimensional space. The navigation solution from the INS was further improved in post processing. Ground points were identified in each point cloud with a Cloth Simulation Filter (Zhang and others, 2016) implemented in CloudCompare software (CloudCompare, 2023) and classified with code 2 (ground) according to the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) standard lidar point classes (ASPRS, 2011).  Water-surface reflections were identified and classified as code 7 (low noise; ASPRS, 2011).  All other points in each point cloud were classified as code 1 (unclassified; ASPRS, 2011). The left and right streambank point clouds are provided as separate LAS files, an industry-standard binary format for storing large point cloud datasets.  Each LAS file is provided with position and elevation data in three dimensions in units of meters, 8-bit scaled intensity, and the classification code. The data are projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, zone 17 north, horizontally referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NGS, 2018a), 2011 realization (NAD83 2011), and vertically referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88; NGS, 2018b).

Tags: asheville, elevation, french-broad-river, geomorphology, inlandwaters, lidar, north-carolina, usgs-606f6c01d34ef99870189001, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Multibeam bathymetry in Peoria Lock, near Peoria, Illinois, September 19, 2019

The bathymetry (bottom elevation) of the downstream lock approach and lock chamber of Peoria Lock, near Peoria, Illinois, was surveyed on September 19, 2019. The data were collected using a multibeam echo-sounder mapping system (MBMS) with integrated inertial navigation solution (INS) mounted on a manned survey vessel. The raw data were processed and gridded to 0.5 meter using elevation values computed from the Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator (CUBE) method, which provides an estimate of the bathymetric elevation and the total propagated uncertainty (TPU) at each gridded location. The 0.5 meter grid was oriented at 39.32 degrees to north to be aligned with the Peoria lock chamber. The bathymetry and TPU data were exported as text files.

Tags: bathymetry, dam, geomorphology, illinois, lock, multibeam-sonar, peoria, peoria-lock-and-dam, surface-water-non-marine, united-states, usgs-606f6f8dd34ef99870189060
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimate of frass produced by koa moth (Scotorythra paludicola) caterpillars in the lab

The koa moth (Scotorythra paludicola) is a species of moth that has been reported to irrupt in great abundance on occasion over the past 100 years, sometimes defoliating its host plant, koa (Acacia koa), during the event. This data release includes metadata and tabular data that document the amount of frass (caterpillar excrement, which is a proxy for foliage consumed) produced by koa moth caterpillars as they mature through their five larval instars (life stages). In the lab, frass was collected from individual caterpillars representing instars 3, 4 and 5, dried and weighed. From these data, a significant relationship was found between caterpillar instar and the amount of frass produced, which allowed indirect estimates of frass production for instars 1 and 2. The weight estimate for each instar was used to estimate total amounts of frass produced by caterpillars at different times during the outbreak that defoliated much of the the koa at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge during 2013-2014.

Tags: frass, hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii-island, insect-outbreak, usgs-606f99e3d34ef998701891ad
Organization: Department of the Interior
Koa moth (Scotorythra paludicola) abundance in response to koa moth outbreak, 2013-2014

The koa moth (Scotorythra paludicola) is a species of moth that has been reported to irrupt in great abundance on occasion over the past 100 years, sometimes defoliating its host plant, koa (Acacia koa), during the event. This data release includes metadata and tabular data that document temporal abundance patterns of the koa moth (adult stage; Scotorythra paludicola) during an outbreak that resulted in widespread defoliation of koa across much of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge during 2013-2014. The data set documents numbers of moths collected in malaise traps during the outbreak. Malaise traps were deployed at several sites during the outbreak to allow moth abundance to be tracked over time.

Tags: biota, hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii-island, insect-outbreak, moth-abundance, usgs-606fdd82d34ef99870199f57
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bull Mountain Basin Boundary from 1999 National Coal Resource Assessment

This ArcView shapefile contains a polygon representing
the extent of the Bull Mountain coal basin boundary. This
theme was created specifically for the National Coal
Resources Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains
and Great Plains Region.

Tags: bull-mountain-basin, coal, coal-basins, economy, environment, geology, geoscientificinformation, golden-valley-county, montana, musselshell-county, nca2000, northern-rocky-mountain-and-great-plains-coal-resources-assessment, nrockiescoal, treasure-county, usgs-60a6b9aad34ea221ce4ba7aa, yellowstone-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Non-Tidal Network Station Catchments

Drainage basins of the 123 Non-Tidal Monitoring Stations in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Tags: biota, chesapeake-bay-watershed, delaware, maryland, new-york, pennsylvania, rivers, united-states, usgs-6075a512d34e018b3201c7cc, virginia, washington-dc, water-quality, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Quality assessed and modified Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) facility and outfall locations, 2007 - 2019

Each year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports permit, location, and discharge information for facilities across the United States and its territories through the Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR). Because these data are cataloged through a variety of systems, including self-reporting, there are discrepancies that may lead to incorrect spatial interpretation of content in the database. The processing of this quality assessed and modified dataset included steps to evaluate the accuracy and potential limitations of DMR data between 2007 and 2019.  Attributes within this tabular dataset include facility and outfall locations as well as confidence ratings for those locations, and hydrologic unit code (HUC) 12 information on outfalls above a certain threshold of confidence. Discretion should be used when utilizing this dataset and users should ensure an understanding of the metadata or content in the DMR_ReadMe.docx file.

Tags: facilities, huc, infrastructure, nhdplusv2, usgs-6075bf7fd34e018b3201c87f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shallow Sediment Geochemistry in a Mercury-Contaminated Multi-Habitat Floodplain: Cache Creek Settling Basin, Yolo County, California (version 2.0, August 2021)

The Cache Creek Settling Basin (CCSB) is a 13.3 km2 leveed basin located at the terminal drainage of the Cache Creek watershed, immediately NE of the town of Woodland (Yolo County), California and approximately 18 km NW of Sacramento, California. The basin was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (completed in 1937 and modified in 1993) for the purpose of trapping suspended sediment transported from the upper Cache Creek watershed during high-flow events, thus preventing sediment from entering the Yolo Bypass, a larger downstream floodwater conveyance and agricultural zone. In addition to trapping suspended sediment, the CCSB also traps sediment-associated mercury (Hg), which is particularly elevated in the upper watershed, owing to natural Hg deposits and associated historic Hg mining areas. The CCSB is a multi-use area containing a number of habitat types that are typical of the California Central Valley region, including: open-water (stream, canal), riparian, floodplain (woody, non-woody), and agriculture (row crop fields) habitats.
This dataset includes shallow surface sediment (top 0–2 cm interval) constituent concentration data (primarily) and microbial methylmercury production potential rate data (limited) collected between April 2010 and July 2019 from the above-noted habitats to assess spatial and temporal variations in sediment geochemistry and mercury speciation within the CCSB. The dataset is presented in two sections (child pages): one has the constituent concentration and microbial rate data, and the other includes results of habitat mapping that was conducted within the CCSB for the purpose of data analysis. 
First posted – October 16, 2018 (available from author)
Revised – July, 2021 (version 2.0)

Tags: aquatic-ecosystems, basins, biogeochemistry, cache-creek-settling-basin, floodplain, floodplains, mercury, mercury-analysis, sacramento-river-watershed, sacramentosan-joaquin-river-delta, total-maximum-daily-load-tmdl, usgs-6075ee90d34e018b3201c945, wetlands, woodland-ca, yolo-bypass, yolo-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Daily reference and potential evapotranspiration, and supporting meteorological data from the North American Regional Reanalysis, solar insolation data from the GOES satellite, and blue-sky albedo data from the MODIS satellite, Florida, 2019 (ver. 1.1, April 2021)

Potential evapotranspiration (PET), and reference evapotranspiration (ETo) are estimated at an approximately 2-kilometer (approximately 0.019 degrees longitude and 0.018 degrees latitude) spatial grid and daily time-scale from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 for the entire State of Florida. PET and ETo were computed on the basis of solar radiation, meteorological data (minimum/maximum temperature, minimum/maximum relative humidity, and mean wind speed at 2-meter height), and shortwave blue-sky albedo data for 2019.  Solar radiation was computed from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) sensor data, blue-sky albedo was computed from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) MCD43A1 BRDF/Albedo data product, and meteorological data were obtained from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR). Open source tools for managing the NetCDF files in this data release can be found at https://github.com/jbellino-usgs/Florida-GOES-ET.

Tags: evapotranspiration, north-florida-water-management-district, potential-evapotranspiration, reference-evapotranspiration, solar-radiation, south-florida-water-management-district, south-west-florida-water-management-district, st-johns-river-water-management-district, state-of-florida, suwannee-river-water-management-district, usgs-6075fb4ed34e018b3201c9d6, water-budget
Organization: Department of the Interior
Locations of sediment sampling sites, watersheds, and mapped sealed and unsealed pavement for 10 urban watersheds

These data represent the locations of sediment sampling, the associated watershed boundaries for those sites, and the extents of sealed and unsealed parking lot pavement within 10 urban watersheds. These Geographic Information System (GIS) spatial layers were used to estimate area of sealed and unsealed driveways in residential neighborhoods. The percentage of the watershed that was sealed pavement and the percentage of the sediment sample from pavement dust were used as explanatory variables in statistical models of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and metal concentrations in the streams.

Tags: contamination-and-pollution, dust, environment, health, inlandwaters, northeast-unites-states, pacific-northwest, pavement-sealants, sediment, soil, southeast-united-states, usgs-607606d9d34e018b3201cb86, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and radionuclides for soils, pavement dust, and stream sediment for 10 urban watersheds

These data represent a one-time synoptic survey of sampled soils, pavement dust, and stream sediment in 10 urban watersheds in three regions of the United States (Pacific Northwest, northeast, and southeast) to evaluate sources of sediment and two groups of common urban contaminants: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and metals. Analyses of samples from six of the watersheds included fallout radionuclides to facilitate identification of sediment sources to the streams. Scripts used in R to test selected explanatory variables for the urban contaminants using Generalize Additive Models (GAMs) are included. The percentage of the watershed that was sealed pavement and the percentage of the sediment sample from pavement dust were used as explanatory variables in statistical models of PAH and metal concentrations in the streams. This child item includes four data files containing the metals and PAH concentration data, radionuclide activity data, and pavement mapping statistics; a data dictionary describing the attributes in each data file; R scripts; the associated input files used for the GAM modeling; and a data dictionary for the input files.

Tags: contamination-and-pollution, dust, environment, health, inlandwaters, northeast-unites-states, pacific-northwest, pavement-sealants, sediment, soil, southeast-united-states, usgs-6076078ed34e018b3201cb8e, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tidal wetland elevation projections for five San Francisco Bay Delta regions using WARMER-2, 2000-2100

Projections of marsh elevation change with WARMER-2 across five regions of the San Francisco Bay Delta (Cache Yolo, South Delta, North Delta, Central Delta, and Suisun). The model was run across a range of initial elevations for each region and for scenarios of sea-level rise (30, 61, 91, 122, 152, 183, 305 cm by 2100), sediment availability (historic, constant, declining, and increase), and with and without a temporally dynamic tidal range. Results from the Delta Simulation Model 2 hydrodynamic model were used to calculate rates of tide range increase with sea-level rise. WARMER-2 was calibrated using soil cores from Callaway et al 2012 (Rush Ranch and Browns Island cores), and a soil core from Miners Slough.  

Tags: biota, brackish-marsh, delta, emergent-tidal-marsh, freshwater-tidal-marsh, numerical-modeling, sea-level-change, usgs-60760b5cd34e018b3201cba5, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Folds--Offshore of Point Reyes Map Area, California

This part of DS 781 presents fold data for the geologic and geomorphic map of the Offshore of Point Reyes map area, California. The vector data file is included in "Folds_OffshorePointReyes.zip," which is accessible from https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshorePointReyes/data_catalog_OffshorePointReyes.html. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Watt, J.T., Dartnell, P., Golden, N.E., Greene, H.G., Erdey, M.D., Cochrane, G.R., Johnson, S.Y., Hartwell, S.R., Kvitek, R.G., Manson, M.W., Endris, C.A., Dieter, B.E., Sliter, R.W., Krigsman, L.M., Lowe, E.N., and Chin, J.L. (J.T. Watt and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2015, California State Waters Map Series—Offshore of Point Reyes, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1114, pamphlet 39 p., 10 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151114.
Folds were primarily mapped by interpretation of seismic reflection profile data (see field activity S-8-09-NC). The seismic reflection profiles were collected in 2009.

Tags: cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-island-shelf, drakes-bay, drakes-estero, environment, folding-geologic, geologic-structure, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, maps-and-atlases, marin-county, marine-geology, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, northern-california-ecoregion, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, point-reyes, rock-substrate, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, state-of-california, structural-geology, transform-continental-margin, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-mineral-substrate, usgs, usgs-6076f1ab-f84d-4a50-b9df-44875381911d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual SSEBop ET rasters at Landsat scale from 2010-2019 for the CONUS

CONUS-wide actual ET (ETa) from Landsat thermal imagery-using the Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) model (version 4) in the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud computing platform. Over 150,000 Landsat satellite images were used to produce 10 years of annual ETa (2010-2019).

Tags: consumptive-use, evapotranspiration, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, inlandwaters, landsat, remote-sensing, usgs-60771f70d34e018b32041f93, water-resources, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior