AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Principal components of climate variation in the Desert Southwest for the future time period 2040-2070 (RCP 4.5)

Five principal components are used to represent the climate variation in an original set of 12 composite climate variables reflecting complex precipitation and temperature gradients. The dataset provides coverage for future climate (defined as the 2040-2070 normal period) under the RCP4.5 emission scenarios. Climate variables were chosen based on their known influence on local adaptation in plants, and include: mean annual temperature, summer maximum temperature, winter minimum temperature, annual temperature range, temperature seasonality (coefficient of variation in monthly average temperatures), mean annual precipitation, winter precipitation, summer precipitation, proportion of summer precipitation, precipitation seasonality (coefficient of variation in monthly precipitation totals), long-term winter precipitation variability, and long-term summer precipitation variability. The conversion to principal components both standardizes and accounts for covariation in climate variables, while emphasizing the most important climate gradients across the landscape. 
Raster layers representing each principal component form the input to Climate Distance Mapper (https://usgs-werc-shinytools.shinyapps.io/Climate_Distance_Mapper/), an interactive R Shiny application for matching seed sources with restoration sites. Plant populations are commonly adapted to local climate gradients and frequently exhibit a home-site advantage. For this reason, climate information may serve as a proxy for local adaptation in restoration designs. Climate Distance Mapper allows users to rank the suitability of seed sources for restoration sites by displaying multivariate climate distances (incorporating climate principal components) from user-supplied input points to the surrounding landscape. The application provides functions to match seed sources with current or future climate, guide sampling effort for large scale seed collections, and partition the landscape into suitable areas for different seed sources. 
These data support the following publication:
Shryock, D.F., DeFalco, L.A., and T.C. Esque. 2018. Spatial decision-support tools to guide restoration and seed sourcing in the Desert Southwest. Ecosphere 9(10):e02453.

Tags: arizona, atmospheric-and-climatic-processes, california, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, colorado, colorado-plateau, geospatial-analysis, great-basin, mojave-desert, nevada, new-mexico, precipitation, sonoran-desert, united-states, usgs-5d6423a6e4b01d82ce9870a0, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 285090  Shiretoko-Iozan

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-58d01400e4b0236b68f52d9f, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gross primary production estimates and associated light, sediment, and water quality data from the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam

These data were compiled to model the effects of flow regime and bed grain size distributions on rates of gross primary production (GPP) in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam, AZ, USA. The objectives of our study were to quantify daily and weekly scale effects of an experimental flow regime on GPP in the Colorado River. The experimental flow was conducted at Glen Canyon Dam from May-August in 2018, 2019, and 2020 and contrasted steady-low flows on weekend days with business-as-usual hydropeaking flows during weekdays. This data release only contains data through 2019. These data represent daily-scale estimates of GPP, discharge, turbidity, water depth, and canyon shading for eleven reaches on the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam in AZ, USA during May and June of 2018 and 2019. These data also contain ~8 years of weekly-scale estimates of GPP at three long term gaged sites in the same system together with weekly mean discharge and gamma, a proxy of the bed grain size distribution. Finally, these data contain paired measurements of turbidity and light attenuation from the Colorado River during 2018-2020. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey - Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. These data can be used to look at spatial and temporal (daily, seasonal, and year-to-year) patterns in riverine GPP and associated predictor variables. These data can also be used in studies examining the relationship between turbidity and light attenuation.

Tags: arizona, bed-grain-size-distributions, canyon-shading, colorado-river, data-release, discharge, dissolved-gases, environment, experimental-flow-regime, field-inventory-and-monitoring, flow-regime, gas-transfer, glen-canyon, glen-canyon-dam, grain-size-analysis, grand-canyon, grand-canyon-national-park, gross-primary-production, hydropeaking-flows, inlandwaters, light-attenuation, marble-canyon, northern-arizona, sediment-transport, stream-discharge, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, surface-water-quality, turbidity, usgs-6168770ed34e653770011b95, usgs-gage, water-depth, water-quality, water-quality-data, water-resources, water-sampling, weekly-mean-discharge, weekly-mean-gamma
Organization: Department of the Interior
Comma-delimited Text File of Piezometer Groundwater Data Collected August, 2005 in the Nauset Marsh Area of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

In order to test hypotheses about groundwater flow under and into estuaries and the Atlantic Ocean, geophysical surveys, geophysical probing, submarine groundwater sampling, and sediment coring were conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists at Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) from 2004 through 2006. Coastal resource managers at CCNS and elsewhere are concerned about nutrients that are entering coastal waters via submarine groundwater discharge, which are contributing to eutrophication and harmful algal blooms. The research carried out as part of the study described here was designed, in part, to help refine assumptions required by earlier versions of models about the nature of submarine groundwater flow and discharge at CCNS. This study was conducted in four phases, with a variety of field techniques and equipment employed in each phase. Phase 1 consisted of continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) surveys of the entire study area conducted in 2004. Phase 2 consisted of CRP ground-truthing via resistivity probe measurements and submarine groundwater sampling from hydraulically-drive piezometers using a barge in the Salt Pond/Nauset Marsh area in 2005. Phase 3 consisted of supplemental detailed CRP surveys in the Salt Pond/Nauset Marsh area in 2006. Finally, Phase 4 consisted of sediment coring and porewater extraction in the Salt Pond/Nauset Marsh area later in 2006 to supplement the 2005 sampling.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cape-cod-national-seashore, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, drilling-and-coring, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, ground-water, groundwater, inlandwaters, marine-resistivity, massachusetts, nauset-marsh, north-america, oceans, of-2006-1169, open-file-report, point, salt-pond, shapefile, submarine-ground-water, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-f8607284-227b-4d3f-b851-7d27100c5248, water-properties, whsc-field-activity-serial-number-05035, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS Streamgage NHDPlus Version 1 Basins 2011

This dataset represents 19,031 basin boundaries and their streamgage locations 
for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) active and historical streamgages from 
the published dataset of Stewart and others (2006) and its subsequent updates 
(D.W. Stewart, USGS, written commun., 2011).  Only the basin boundaries that 
were delineated within 15 percent of the basin area reported in the National 
Water Information System (NWIS) were included in this dataset.  This dataset 
only includes streamgage basins in the lower 48 states and not in Alaska, 
Hawaii, or Puerto Rico. The basin boundaries and streamgage locations are 
provided in 18 shapefiles separated by 2-digit Hydrologic Unit Code. The USGS 
streamgage station's identification number attached to each delineated polygon 
can be linked to the attribute data found in Stewart and others (2006).  The 
delineated watersheds were made from digital elevation models found in the 
NHDPlus data suite (version 1, 2006) and based on gage locations provided by 
Stewart and others (2006).  These basins have been used in several USGS studies 
such as James Falcone's "GAGES-II: Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating 
Streamflow"  (2011) and Xiaodong Jian and others, "WaterWatch-Maps, Graphs, and 
Tables of Current, Recent, and Past Streamflow Conditions " (2008).

Tags: basins, inlandwaters, nhdplus, streamgage, usgs-6ef71a5d-0a10-4ed5-bf5b-14b904302529, watersheds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Evapotranspiration at Starkey pasture site, Pasco County, Florida, Vegetation Characteristics and ancillary files, April 2003 - April 2016

Evapotranspiration measurements were made by the U.S. Geological Survey at the Starkey pasture climate station as part of a study that began April 2003 and ended April 2016. The metadata describe a table of the characteristics of the vegetation at the site from field visits, in comma-delimited format.

Tags: evapotranspiration, florida, latent-heat-flux, net-radiation, pasco-county, surface-energy-budget, unimproved-pasture, usgs-589379a6e4b0fa1e59b7371f
Organization: Department of the Interior
2010 Delaware USACE Lidar-Derived Dune Crest, Toe and Shoreline

The Storm-Induced Coastal Change Hazards component of the National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards project focuses on understanding the magnitude and variability of extreme storm impacts on sandy beaches. Lidar-derived beach morphologic features such as dune crest, toe and shoreline help define the vulnerability of the beach to storm impacts. This dataset defines the elevation and position of the seaward-most dune crest and toe and the mean high water shoreline derived from the 2010 Delaware U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) lidar survey. Beach width is included and is defined as the distance between the dune toe and shoreline along a cross-shore profile. The beach slope is calculated using this beach width and the elevation of the shoreline and dune toe.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, delaware, elevation, environment, geoscientificinformation, hazards, marine-geology, ocean-sciences, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-06f7cc7c-40ca-4da8-bce5-218e3052fe19
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetry Hillshade--Offshore of Fort Ross, California

This part of DS 781 presents data for the shaded-relief bathymetry map of the Offshore of Fort Ross map area, California. Raster data file is included in "Bathymetry_OffshoreFortRoss.zip," which is accessible from https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshoreFortRoss/data_catalog_OffshoreFortRoss.html. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Golden, N.E., Hartwell, S.R., Erdey, M.D., Greene, H.G., Cochrane, G.R., Kvitek, R.G., Manson, M.W., Endris, C.A., Dieter, B.E., Watt, J.T., Krigsman, L.M., Sliter, R.W., Lowe, E.N., and Chin, J.L. (S.Y. Johnson and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2015, California State Waters Map Series--Offshore of Fort Ross, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1211, pamphlet 37 p., 10 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151211.
The shaded-relief bathymetry map of the Offshore of Fort Ross Map Area, California, was generated from bathymetry data collected by California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB), and by Fugro Pelagos. Mapping was completed between 2007 and 2010, using a combination of 200-kHz and 400-kHz Reson 7125, and 244-kHz Reson 8101 multibeam echosounders, as well as 468-kHz SEA SWATHPlus interferometric system. These mapping missions combined to collect bathymetry from about the 10-m isobath to beyond the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-island-shelf, distributions, environment, fort-ross, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, jenner, maps-and-atlases, marine-geophysics, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, multibeam-echo-sounder, northern-california-ecoregion, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, rock-substrate, russian-river, seabed, seafloor-topography, sonar-methods, sonoma-county, state-of-california, transform-continental-margin, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-mineral-substrate, usgs, usgs-595cba9f-46a8-47ac-a4d2-7ff879043df4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory studies on the thermal biology of freshwater mussels and their host fish species

Data are included for laboratory studies evaluating the thermal biology of several freshwater mussel species and their host fish including dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon), brook floater (Alasmidonta varicosa), creeper (Strophitus undulatus), eastern elliptio mussel (Elliptio complanata), tesselated darter (Etheostoma olmstedi), and slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus).  Thermal endpoints include critical thermal maximum, temperature preference, oxygen consumption rates, and clearance rates of organisms acclimated to a range of temperature treatments.

Tags: aquatic-biology, delaware-river, endangered-species, fish, mollusks, native-species, susquehanna-river, usgs-5c95389be4b09388245a6cfb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream Segments Used with the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System for Hydrologic Simulations of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin in the southeastern U.S.

The stream segments available here are for seven applications of the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (ACFB) by LaFontaine and others (2017). Geographic Information System (GIS) files for the stream segments in each of the seven model applications (whole ACFB, Chestatee River, Chipola River, Ichawaynochaway Creek, Potato Creek, Spring Creek, and Upper Chattahoochee River) are provided as shapefiles with attributes identifying the numbering convention used in the PRMS models of the ACFB.

Tags: alabama, apalachicola-river, chattahoochee-river, chestatee-river, chipola-river, flint-river, florida, georgia, ichawaynochaway-creek, model, potato-creek, spring-creek, streamflow, streamflow-modeling, usgs-5919ba8de4b044b359e48a32
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean annual water-budget components for Hawaii Island, Hawaii, for predevelopment conditions, 1916-83 rainfall and 1870 land cover

The shapefile associated with this metadata file represents the spatial distribution of mean annual water-budget components, 
in inches, for Hawaii Island, Hawaii. The water-budget components in the shapefile were computed by a water-budget model 
for a scenario representative of predevelopment conditions (1916-83 rainfall and 1870 land cover), as described in USGS 
Scientific Investigations Report (SIR) 2015-5164. The model was developed for estimating groundwater recharge and other 
water-budget components for each subarea of the model. The model-subarea data set, consisting of 467,805 subareas 
(polygons), was generated using Esri ArcGIS software by intersecting (merging) multiple spatial data sets. Spatial datasets 
merged includes those that characterize the spatial distribution of hydrologic and physical conditions (rainfall, fog interception, 
irrigation, reference evapotranspiration, direct runoff, soil type, and land cover) that the model uses to compute groundwater 
recharge and other water-budget components. Additional spatial datasets merged into the model-subarea data set include 
those of select geographic features that assist in analyzing model results. This metadata file describes the process of 
merging these spatial data sets. The shapefile attribute information associated with each polygon present an estimate of 
mean annual rainfall, fog interception, irrigation, runoff, canopy evaporation, actual evapotranspiration, net precipitation, 
total evapotranspiration, recharge, and seepage from cesspools. This shapefile also includes select geographic and 
land-cover attributes of the polygons. Brief descriptions of the water-budget components and attributes are included in 
this metadata file. Refer to USGS SIR 2015-5164 and USGS SIR 2011-5078 for further details of the methods and sources 
used to determine these components and attributes.

Tags: big-island, canopy-evaporation, evapotranspiration, groundwater-recharge, groundwater-resources-program, hawaii, hawaii-volcanic-rock-aquifer-study, inlandwaters, irrigation, pacific-islands, rainfall, runoff, soil-water-balance, usgs-e588d21a-9708-49d0-b4d3-a6bfad95215d, water-budget-model
Organization: Department of the Interior
DS926 Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina -- Area where upper confining unit is thin or absent beneath the surficial aquifer

Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system 
were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. Geological 
Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This feature class contains the approximate area 
where the upper confining unit is thin or absent beneath the surfical aquifer.

Tags: alabama, conditions, confined, environment, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, regional-groundwater-availability-study, regions, south-carolina, stratigraphy, thickness, ucu, unconfined, united-states-geological-survey, upper-confining-unit, usgs, usgs-3ee42713-f468-4617-8f53-b7bc2b082367
Organization: Department of the Interior
CoSMoS (Coastal Storm Modeling System) Central California v3.1 wave-hazard projections: average conditions in Santa Cruz County

This data contains maximum model-derived significant wave height (in meters) for the sea-level rise (SLR) and storm condition indicated. 
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. Projections for CoSMoS v3.1 in Central California include flood-hazard information for the coast from Pt. Conception to the Golden Gate. Outputs include SLR scenarios of 0.0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, and 5.0 meters; storm scenarios include background conditions (astronomic spring tide and average atmospheric conditions) and simulated 1-year/20-year/100-year return interval coastal storms. Methods and processes used in Central California are replicated from and described in O'Neill and others (2018). Please read metadata and inspect output carefully. Data are complete for the information presented.

Tags: beaches, central-california, central-california-coast, climate-change, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-erosion, earth-sciences, effects-of-climate-change, erosion, extreme-weather, floods, hazards-planning, mathematical-modeling, ocean-waves, ocean-winds, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, santa-cruz-county, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, state-of-california, storm-surge, storms, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5e5d7874e4b01d50924f2d8c, water-depth, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Post-fire debris-flow hazard model output files, Santa Fe Municipal Watershed

Wildfires are increasing in size and severity due to warmer drought climate change combined with overstocked forests. Fire increases the likelihood of debris flows, posing significant threats to life, property, and water supplies. Post-fire debris flows are a substantial, increasing hazard in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed and other similar forested watersheds across the western United States. The Santa Fe Municipal Watershed in northern New Mexico is of vital importance to the water supply for the city of Santa  We conducted a debris-flow hazard assessment for the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed (SFMW) in north-central New Mexico. We modeled post-fire debris flow probability and volume in 103 sub-basins for 2-year, 5-year, and Probable Maximum Precipitation rainfalls following modeled low-, moderate-, and high-severity wildfires. Crown fire potential was modeled with FlamMap (Finney, 2006), after Tillery et al. (2014). To satisfy data input requirements of the debris flow model that includes burn severity classes (low, moderate, and high), the modeled crown fire activity was first converted to dNBR (French et al. 2008). This conversion was calibrated based on burn severities from the 2011 Pacheco Fire that burned in a nearby watershed (approximately 5 km north of the SFMW). Data files are numbered 1-5.  Spatial files provided in this data release include: 1) polygon of the study area; 2) 103 sub-basins within the study area; 3) Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for New Mexico in 2011; and 4) complete post-fire debris flow probability and volume data of every rainfall event and wildfire scenario for 103 sub-basins; and tabulated data provided in this data release include: 5) calculated burn severity percentages for Pacheco Canyon Fire.

Tags: biota, debris-flow, new-mexico, santa-fe, usgs-651ce041d34e44db0e2ceb54, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Corridors of Mule Deer in the Verdi-Truckee Herd in California and Nevada

The Verdi-Truckee mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) herd winters south of I-80 in the Carson Range along the California-Nevada border, although a portion of this herd winters northeast of Verdi, Nevada on Peavine Mountain. Migration routes to summer range follow I-80 southwest, along both sides of the Truckee River, toward Martis Valley and Truckee, California. The summer range for this small herd (approximately 500 animals in 2019) is located east of Truckee and includes portions of Juniper Flat, Martis Creek, and the area south of the Truckee River to the confluence of Gray Creek. Migration behavior and timing of migration is dependent on seasonal weather conditions and snow depth during early winter. Significant challenges to this deer herd include barriers to movement, such as I-80, vehicle collisions, and increased housing development on winter range in Verdi neighborhoods.
These data provide the location of migration corridors for mule deer in the Verdi-Truckee population in California and Nevada. They were developed from 91 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 31 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 1-11 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, california, economy, environment, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, nevada, united-states, usgs-620e4b27d34e6c7e83baa3a6
Organization: Department of the Interior