AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Mean annual water-budget components for the Island of Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi, for a 2020 land-cover and a set of four climate scenarios, Part 1

This shapefile represents the spatial distribution of mean annual water-budget components, in inches, for the western half (Part 1) of the Island of Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi for a 2020 land-cover and a set of four climate scenarios. The four climate scenarios used in the water-budget analyses include a reference climate scenario representative of recent conditions during 1978–2007, hereinafter the 1978–2007 scenario, and three downscaled future-climate projections. The three future-climate projections include (1) a mid-century scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) 2041–71 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2041–71 scenario, (2) a dry-climate scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of the CMIP5 RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario, and (3) a wet-climate scenario using a dynamical downscaling approach by configuring a regional climate model for the western North Pacific and southwest Pacific region, including the Hawaiian Islands described in Zhang and Wang (2017), hereinafter the Hawaiʻi Regional Climate Model version 2 (HRCM2) RCP4.5 2080–99. The water-budget components for each model subarea were computed for each climate scenario using a water-budget model developed by Oki (2022). A set of land-cover classes representative of conditions around 2020 was developed for this study to define the land-cover conditions for each model subarea (or polygon). The shapefile attribute information associated with each subarea present the land-cover class and an estimate of mean annual rainfall, fog interception, irrigation, septic-system leachate, seepage from reservoirs and cesspools, runoff, canopy evaporation, total evapotranspiration, and groundwater recharge. This shapefile also includes select geographic and land-cover attributes of the model subareas. Brief descriptions of the water-budget components and attributes are included in this metadata file. Refer to Kāne and others (2024) for further details of the methods and sources used to determine these components and attributes.

Tags: biota, boundaries, canopy-evaporation, cesspool-seepage, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, direct-recharge, effects-of-climate-change, environment, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fog-interception, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hawaii, inlandwaters, land-use-and-land-cover, net-precipitation, pacific-islands, precipitation-atmospheric, recharge, reservoir-seepage, runoff, septic-system-leachate, total-evapotranspiration, transpiration, usgs-66047f81d34e64ff15491ef3, water-budget, water-budget-model, water-cycle
Organization: Department of the Interior
Histopathology of American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) Exposed to Two Brodifacoum Isomer Formulations with Differing Elimination Half-Lives

This dataset documents histopathological changes in liver, kidney, skeletal muscle and intestine of captive American kestrels (Falco sparverius) exposed to brodifacoum formulations with differing elimination half-lives in target rodents. The toxicity of two brodifacoum formulations with stereoisomers having markedly different elimination half-lives in rats (Formulation A containing the 2 least persistent stereoisomers, Formulation B containing the most persistent stereoisomer) were tested in a 7-day dietary feeding trial. Based on previous kestrel studies using commercially available brodifacoum, Formulations A and B were each provided at 3 dietary concentrations (0.05, 0.1 and 0.5 µg/g diet, 4 kestrels/dose level) predicted to cause a range of toxicity. Birds were necropsied and examined grossly for hemorrhages or anemia, and liver, kidney, skeletal muscle, and intestine was collected for histopathological evaluation. Tissues stained by hematoxylin and eosin were scanned at at least 100x magnification and all hemorrhage, defined as erythrocyte extravasation, was scored on a severity scale of 0-4 (absent, minimal, mild, moderate, or severe). Other microscopic abnormalities noted within the case set were scored as absent or present. Microscopic examination revealed mild to moderate hemorrhage in 11/111 of tissues examined, including samples from the control group; hemorrhage was not related to dietary concentration of either brodifacoum formulation. Other observations in the case set included portal infiltrates in the liver (27/27), suspect polyomavirus inclusions in the kidney (14/28), renal interstitial lymphoplasmacytic infiltrates (6/28), other cellular infiltrates (17/111), myocyte degeneration or regeneration (3/28), myocellular protozoal cysts (2/28), hepatocellular glycogenosis (1/27), and minimal hepatocellular necrosis (1/27). These findings are not considered likely to be clinically significant or related to brodifacoum exposure.

Tags: anticoagulant, biota, birds, brodifacoum-isomers, hazard, histopathology, non-target-effects, risk, usgs-660477f8d34e64ff15491dcd, usgs-eastern-ecological-science-center-laurel-md, usgs-national-wildlife-health-center-madison-wisconsin-usa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Duck and shorebird counts with related vegetation and water depth measurements from wetlands in the Drift Prairie of eastern North Dakota and South Dakota from 2017 – 2019

We present a tabular data set of wetland vegetation heights and coverages, water depths, mudflat area, inundated area, landscape wetland counts, date index, and shorebird and duck counts from wetlands in agricultural fields in the Drift Prairie of eastern North Dakota and South Dakota from 2017-2019.

Tags: agriculture, biota, birds, drift-prairie, farming, inlandwaters, north-dakota, prairie-pothole-region, south-dakota, usgs-660458dfd34e64ff15491c55, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Exotic annual grass (EAG) phenology estimates in the western U.S. rangelands based on 30-m HLS NDVI: 2017 - 2021 (ver. 1.0)

Phenological dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems reflect the response of the Earth's vegetation canopy to changes in climate and hydrology and are thus important to monitor operationally. The Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) phenology in the western U.S. rangeland based on 30m near seamless Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) weekly composites between 2016 and 2021 (Dahal et al., 2022) were processed using these 3 methods: (1) NDVI threshold-based method, (2) manual phenological metrics, and (3) modeling and mapping. The EAG phenology model produced eight metrics identifying the sustainable growth characteristics of 16 EAG species throughout level III Commission for Environmental Cooperation ecoregions, which cover over 190 million hectares of western U.S. potential rangeland for 2017 to 2021. The current suites of 30-m spatial resolution phenological metrics are Start of Season Time (SOST); Start of Season NDVI (SOSN); End of Season Time (EOST); End of Season NDVI (EOSN); Maximum Time (MAXT); Maximum NDVI (MAXN); Duration (DUR); and Amplitude (AMP). Datasets 2017 to 2020 were developed using manually interpreted training data from their respective year, but 2021 was developed from unseen NDVI datasets to test robustness of the phenology model.
References: 
Dahal, D.; Pastick, N.J.; Boyte, S.P.; Parajuli, S.; Oimoen, M.J.; Megard, L.J. Multi-Species Inference of Exotic Annual and Native Perennial Grasses in Rangelands of the Western United States Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data. Remote Sensing 2022, 14, doi:10.3390/rs14040807.

Tags: amplitude-amp, arizona, california, colorado, drought, duration-dur, end-of-season-ndvi-eosn, end-of-season-time-eost, great-basin, harmonized-landsat-sentinel, idaho, kansas, maximum-ndvi-maxn, montana, nebraska, nevada, new-mexico, normalized-difference-vegetation-index-ndvi, north-dakota, oklahoma, oregon, phenology, remote-sensing, south-dakota, start-of-season-ndvi-sosn, start-of-season-time-sost, texas, time-integrated-ndvi-tin, time-of-maximum-maxt, united-states, usgs-66041795d34e64ff1549167f, utah, vegetation-phenology, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Northwest Turtle Bay Marsh Creation (BA-0125): 2021 land-water classification

The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Northwest Turtle Bay Marsh Creation) project for 2021. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a land-water classification is performed on specific CWPPRA sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-photography, ba-0125, conservation, cwppra, digital-elevation-models, ecosystem-monitoring, farming, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, image-collections, image-mosaics, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, remote-sensing, united-states-of-america, usgs-6604146ed34e64ff15491674, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Post-wildfire Curve Number Estimates for the Southern Rocky Mountains Data

This data repository documents the input files, output files, and RStudio script files used to generate the Curve Number (CN) regression analysis performed for a U.S Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey study investigating the post-wildfire CN estimates for the Southern Rocky Mountains.  For this CN analysis, streamgage data for runoff events within 77 burned watersheds in Colorado Rocky Mountain region were used to quantify CN values and changes in CN values from pre- to post-wildfire conditions. Various watershed characteristics (slope, elevation, northness, and eastness), percent watershed area burned, and land cover type were used to develop predictive models that provide estimates of post-wildfire CN changes. These models could be used to inform additional post-wildfire assessments within the region.

Tags: environment, fires, hydrology, precipitation-atmospheric, regression-analysis, runoff, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-66035bf7d34e64ff1548f99b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean annual water-budget components for Maui, Hawaiʻi, for a 2020 land-cover and a set of four climate scenarios

This shapefile represents the spatial distribution of mean annual water-budget components, in inches, for Maui, Hawaiʻi for a 2020 land-cover and a set of four climate scenarios. The four climate scenarios used in the water-budget analyses include a reference climate scenario representative of recent conditions during 1978–2007, hereinafter the 1978–2007 scenario, and three downscaled future-climate projections. The three future-climate projections include (1) a mid-century scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) 2041–71 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2041–71 scenario, (2) a dry-climate scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of the CMIP5 RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario, and (3) a wet-climate scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) A1B 2080–99 scenario climate described in Zhang and others (2016a, 2016b), hereinafter the HRCM1 A1B 2080–99 scenario. The water-budget components for each model subarea were computed for each climate scenario using a water-budget model developed by Oki (2022). A set of land-cover classes representative of conditions around 2020 was developed for this study to define the land-cover conditions for each model subarea (or polygon). The shapefile attribute information associated with each subarea present the land-cover class and an estimate of mean annual rainfall, fog interception, irrigation, septic-system leachate, seepage from reservoirs and cesspools, runoff, canopy evaporation, total evapotranspiration, and groundwater recharge. This shapefile also includes select geographic and land-cover attributes of the model subareas. Brief descriptions of the water-budget components and attributes are included in this metadata file. Refer to Kāne and others (2024) for further details of the methods and sources used to determine these components and attributes.

Tags: biota, boundaries, canopy-evaporation, cesspool-seepage, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, direct-recharge, effects-of-climate-change, environment, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fog-interception, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hawaii, inlandwaters, land-use-and-land-cover, maui, net-precipitation, pacific-islands, precipitation-atmospheric, recharge, reservoir-seepage, runoff, septic-system-leachate, total-evapotranspiration, transpiration, usgs-66032c74d34e64ff1548e73d, water-budget, water-budget-model, water-cycle
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean annual water-budget components for Lānaʻi, Hawaiʻi, for a 2020 land-cover and a set of five climate scenarios

This shapefile represents the spatial distribution of mean annual water-budget components, in inches, for Lānaʻi, Hawaiʻi for a 2020 land-cover and a set of five climate scenarios. The five climate scenarios used in the water-budget analyses include a reference climate scenario representative of recent conditions during 1978–2007, hereinafter the 1978–2007 scenario, and three downscaled future-climate projections. The three future-climate projections include (1) a mid-century scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) 2041–71 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2041–71 scenario, (2) a dry-climate scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of the CMIP5 RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario, and (3) a wet-climate scenario using a dynamical downscaling approach by configuring a regional climate model for the western North Pacific and southwest Pacific region, including the Hawaiian Islands described in Zhang and Wang (2017), hereinafter the Hawaii Regional Climate Model version 2 (HRCM2) RCP4.5 2080–99. An additional drought scenario was added for Lānaʻi to assess the effect of extreme drought conditions during 2008–2012 on groundwater recharge. The water-budget components for each model subarea were computed for each climate scenario using a water-budget model developed by Oki (2022). A set of land-cover classes representative of conditions around 2020 was developed for this study to define the land-cover conditions for each model subarea (or polygon). The shapefile attribute information associated with each subarea present the land-cover class and an estimate of mean annual rainfall, fog interception, irrigation, septic-system leachate, seepage from reservoirs and cesspools, runoff, canopy evaporation, total evapotranspiration, and groundwater recharge. This shapefile also includes select geographic and land-cover attributes of the model subareas. Brief descriptions of the water-budget components and attributes are included in this metadata file. Refer to Kāne and others (2024) for further details of the methods and sources used to determine these components and attributes.

Tags: biota, boundaries, canopy-evaporation, cesspool-seepage, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, direct-recharge, effects-of-climate-change, environment, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fog-interception, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hawaii, inlandwaters, land-use-and-land-cover, lnai, net-precipitation, pacific-islands, precipitation-atmospheric, recharge, reservoir-seepage, runoff, septic-system-leachate, total-evapotranspiration, transpiration, usgs-66032c1fd34e64ff1548e73b, water-budget, water-budget-model, water-cycle
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulations of larval fish transport and environmental conditions in Lake Michigan

Data files contain the simulated mean daily environmental conditions experienced by particles (which can be assumed to be planktonic larval alewife or yellow perch) in Lake Michigan during March 15 - July 31 of past and future years. Simulations were generated by integrating a series of climatic, hydrodynamic, biogeochemical, and Lagrangian particle dispersion (LPD) models. For each year, 42,765 particles (i.e., each representing a theoretical larval fish) were released from coastal and nearshore  locations and tracked sub-hourly for 50-days following their release. Each year's dataset summarizes individual particle experiences (e.g., light, zooplankton prey, temperature) into daily averages.

Tags: biological-and-physical-processes, early-life-history, ecosystem-model, environment, match-mismatch, physical-processes, recruitment, usgs-6605815ad34e64ff1549907f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean annual water-budget components for Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi, for a 2020 land-cover and a set of four climate scenarios

This shapefile represents the spatial distribution of mean annual water-budget components, in inches, for Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi for a 2020 land-cover and a set of four climate scenarios. The four climate scenarios used in the water-budget analyses include a reference climate scenario representative of recent conditions during 1978–2007, hereinafter the 1978–2007 scenario, and three downscaled future-climate projections. The three future-climate projections include (1) a mid-century scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) 2041–71 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2041–71 scenario, (2) a dry-climate scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of the CMIP5 RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario, and (3) a wet-climate scenario using a dynamical downscaling approach by configuring a regional climate model for the western North Pacific and southwest Pacific region, including the Hawaiian Islands described in Zhang and Wang (2017), hereinafter the Hawaiʻi Regional Climate Model version 2 (HRCM2) RCP8.5 2080–99 scenario. The water-budget components for each model subarea were computed for each climate scenario using a water-budget model developed by Oki (2022). A set of land-cover classes representative of conditions around 2020 was developed for this study to define the land-cover conditions for each model subarea (or polygon). The shapefile attribute information associated with each subarea present the land-cover class and an estimate of mean annual rainfall, fog interception, irrigation, septic-system leachate, seepage from reservoirs and cesspools, runoff, canopy evaporation, total evapotranspiration, and groundwater recharge. This shapefile also includes select geographic and land-cover attributes of the model subareas. Brief descriptions of the water-budget components and attributes are included in this metadata file. Refer to Kāne and others (2024) for further details of the methods and sources used to determine these components and attributes.

Tags: biota, boundaries, canopy-evaporation, cesspool-seepage, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, direct-recharge, effects-of-climate-change, environment, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fog-interception, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hawaii, inlandwaters, land-use-and-land-cover, molokai, net-precipitation, pacific-islands, precipitation-atmospheric, recharge, reservoir-seepage, runoff, septic-system-leachate, total-evapotranspiration, transpiration, usgs-66032bb3d34e64ff1548e739, water-budget, water-budget-model, water-cycle
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean annual water-budget components for Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, for a 2020 land-cover and a set of four climate scenarios

This shapefile represents the spatial distribution of mean annual water-budget components, in inches, for Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi for a 2020 land-cover and a set of four climate scenarios. The four climate scenarios used in the water-budget analyses include a reference climate scenario representative of recent conditions during 1978–2007, hereinafter the 1978–2007 scenario, and three downscaled future-climate projections. The three future-climate projections include (1) a mid-century scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) 2041–71 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2041–71 scenario, (2) a dry-climate scenario using projected rainfall conditions representative of the CMIP5 RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario climate described in Elison Timm and others (2015), hereinafter the SD RCP8.5 2071–99 scenario, and (3) a wet-climate scenario using a dynamical downscaling approach by configuring a regional climate model for the western North Pacific and southwest Pacific region, including the Hawaiian Islands described in Zhang and Wang (2017), hereinafter the Hawaiʻi Regional Climate Model version 2 (HRCM2) RCP4.5 2080-99. The water-budget components for each model subarea were computed for each climate scenario using a water-budget model developed by Oki (2022). A set of land-cover classes representative of conditions around 2020 was developed for this study to define the land-cover conditions for each model subarea (or polygon). The shapefile attribute information associated with each subarea present the land-cover class and an estimate of mean annual rainfall, fog interception, irrigation, septic-system leachate, seepage from reservoirs and cesspools, runoff, canopy evaporation, total evapotranspiration, and groundwater recharge. This shapefile also includes select geographic and land-cover attributes of the model subareas. Brief descriptions of the water-budget components and attributes are included in this metadata file. Refer to Kāne and others (2024) for further details of the methods and sources used to determine these components and attributes.

Tags: biota, boundaries, canopy-evaporation, cesspool-seepage, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, direct-recharge, effects-of-climate-change, environment, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fog-interception, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hawaii, inlandwaters, kauai, land-use-and-land-cover, net-precipitation, pacific-islands, precipitation-atmospheric, recharge, reservoir-seepage, runoff, septic-system-leachate, total-evapotranspiration, transpiration, usgs-6603296bd34e64ff1548e72c, water-budget, water-budget-model, water-cycle
Organization: Department of the Interior