AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Example data from MoisturEC: a new R program for moisture content estimation from electrical conductivity data

This dataset includes example data used for demonstration of the moisturEC program.  This includes inverted electrical resistivity data, model resolution from the inversion, point moisture information, and conductivity-saturation calibration information.  The data are from a field site in Coventry, CT outfitted with five, Decagon 5TE moisture probes, arranged along a 28 m transect at different depths.  The data represent a slice in time after irrigating the soil for 12 hours.

Tags: geophysics, groundwater, irrigation, resistivity, scientific-software, soil-moisture, storrs, town-of-coventry, usgs-5a4e80f5e4b0d05ee8c663b6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Assessing Techniques to Enhance Barrier Characteristics of High-head Navigation Dams on the Upper Illinois River: Data

The dataset is comprised of river conditions at La Grange, Peoria, Starved Rock, Marseilles, and Dresden Island Locks and Dams, along the Illinois River. Data were recorded bihourly from 1 Jan 1985 – 31 Dec 2016. For each location, pool elevation (ft), tailwater elevation (ft), head height (ft; calculated by the difference between pool elevation and tailwater elevation), discharge (cfs; when available) and total gate openness (sum of all open gates in ft), are given, where available. Open river conditions were calculated (0 = closed, 1 = open) for each two hour time period. Dam openness was assessed using the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers thresholds for open river conditions at each location.

Tags: dam-operation, discharge, dresden-island-lock-and-dam, highhead-dams, illinois-river, la-grange-lock-and-dam, marseilles-lock-and-dam, open-river, peoria-lock-and-dam, starved-rock-lock-and-dam, usgs-5a4e9124e4b0d05ee8c66409, wicket-dams
Organization: Department of the Interior
Application of the National Hydrologic Model Infrastructure with the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (NHM-PRMS), byHRU calibrated Version

This data release contains output of the initial calibration of the conterminous United States (CONUS) application of the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) as implemented in the National Hydrologic Model (NHM) infrastructure (Regan et al, 2018). The PRMS version 5.0.0 hydrologic simulation code was used with the accompanying parameter files in the NHM infrastructure to produce the attached output files.
Model input climate drivers include climate data derived from the Daymet gridded data set version 2 (Thornton et al., 2014) with values spatially-distributed to the HRUs using the USGS Geo Data Portal (https://cida.usgs.gov/gdp/; Blodgett et al., 2011). The parameter values are maintained in the National Hydrologic Model Parameter Database (NhmParamDb; Driscoll et al., 2017. The parameter file used to produce these model results is attached (NHM-PRMS.zip). 
CONUS-scale parameter calibration for the USGS National Hydrologic Model (NHM) infrastructure application of the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (NHM-PRMS) was conducted using five baseline data sets derived from multiple sources for each of the NHM’s 109,951 hydrologic response units (HRU) on time scales from annual to daily. A multiple-objective, step-wise, automated calibration procedure was used to identify the ‘optimal’ set of parameters for each HRU. This produced spatially distributed parameters for the CONUS using a calibration procedure termed ‘byHRU’ calibration. 
The NHM-PRMS simulations, with the byHRU calibrated parameters, were conducted with the same configuration for a time period from October 1, 1980 to December 31, 2016. The first three years of the simulations are should be considered ‘model spin up’ and not included in any subsequent analysis. Table 1 (attached) lists the output variables included in this data release. The individual *.csv files follow a naming convention of using an abbreviation for the spatial dimension of the model output (nhru or nsegment) _variable name.csv. The variable names included are defined further in Table 1.
The structure of each output file includes a header line which labels the columns by the spatial unit (hru or stream segment) identification number and each row has the date followed by either 109951 or 56460 values, depending the output variable dimension nhru or nsegment, respectively. See table 1-10 in Regan and LaFontaine (2017) for a description of the variables included in this file. To distribute parameter and output values spatially, a join can be completed by using the nhru_ID or nseg_ID from the variable and the hru_ID from the national-extent Geospatial Fabric.
This research used resources provided by the Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, &amp; Libraries (CSASL) Advanced Research Computing (ARC) group at the U.S. Geological Survey.

Tags: hydrologic-processes, hydrology, mathematical-modeling, usgs-5a4ea3bee4b0d05ee8c6647b, visualization-methods
Organization: Department of the Interior
Soil properties, soil radioisotope activity, and end-of-season belowground biomass across Barataria basin wetlands (2016)

The sustainability of coastal wetlands largely hinges on their ability to accrue elevation capital at a rate that equals or exceeds relative sea-level rise.  A better understanding of these processes is needed to accurately assess the sustainability of these landscapes, and to predict their response to restoration measures such as sediment delivery through river diversions.

Tags: barataria-basin, belowground-biomass, carbon-burial, cesium-137, coastal-wetland, gulf-of-mexico, lead-210, louisiana, radioisotope, sedimentation, soil-bulk-density, soil-organic-matter, usgs-5a4eae82e4b0d05ee8c6649c, vertical-accretion
Organization: Department of the Interior
Selected regression models for predicting FDC quantiles for selected streamgages in the conterminous United States

This dataset contains the selected regression models interpreted in the concurrent publication (Over and others, 2018). To each group of gaged basins in each region with one basin left out, a regression model selection procedure was applied to select the best set of basin characteristics for fitting regression models to each quantile in a set of up to three contiguous groups of FDC quantiles (called here a “flow regime”) for each of four or five binary methodology choices (thus 16 or 32 methodological combinations). This dataset provides the definitions of the selected flow regimes, the regression model parameters (intercepts and coefficients of the selected basin characteristics and their standard errors), variance inflation factor (VIF) values of the selected basin characteristics, goodness-of-fit statistics (adjusted-R-squared and AIC) of the fitted models, and predicted FDCs for each of the methodological combinations. This dataset contains a zipped file (Model_info.zip) of 1 or 2 CSVs per study region containing model information grouped by the number of basin characteristics considered in the regression models.

Tags: flow-duration-curves, regression-analysis, streamflow, usgs-5a4fd8d7e4b0d05ee8c7da02
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predicted flow-duration curves for selected streamgages in the conterminous United States

This dataset contains predicted flow-duration curves (FDCs) for 1,378 streamgages in 19 study regions in the conterminous U.S. from mostly undisturbed watersheds using regression models constructed with four or five binary methodological choices (thus 16 or 32 methodological combinations).  The predicted FDCs are presented as 27 quantiles ranging from 0.02 to 99.98 percent nonexceedance probabilities. These data are also contained within the CSV files in child item 4, "Selected regression models for predicting FDC quantiles for selected streamgages in the conterminous United States", but are separated out here to provide more convenient access in a single Excel file (predictedFDCs.xlsx).  These data support a concurrent publication (Over and others, 2018).

Tags: flow-duration-curves, regression-analysis, streamflow, usgs-5a4fdb6ce4b0d05ee8c7da1c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Body measurements of the exotic invasive Cuban treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis) in Louisiana

This dataset provides location and standard measurements of captured Cuban Treefrogs from the Audubon Park and Zoo area of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Tags: ecological-competition, environment, farming, invasive-species, nonindigenous-species, usgs-5a50029fe4b0d05ee8c7daad
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oceanographic time-series measurements collected in Bellingham Bay, Washington, USA, 2019 to 2021

Bottom-landing and floating platforms with instrumentation to measure currents, waves, water level, optical turbidity, water temperature, and conductivity were deployed at four locations in Bellingham Bay, Washington, USA. Platforms were deployed in three separate periods: July 30, 2019–November 14, 2019, November 19, 2019–February 5, 2020, and January 22, 2021–April 13, 2021. These data were collected to support studies of sediment delivery, transport, deposition, and resuspension in this Pacific Northwest estuarine embayment.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, bellingham-bay, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, distributions, geoscientificinformation, ocean-salinity, ocean-sciences, oceanography, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-oceanography, state-of-washington, time-series-datasets, turbidity, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5a510e28-dc1d-47f3-be8a-a887952d95cd, water-column-features, water-level-measurements, water-temperature, whatcom-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water Data for Nisqually River at Site NR0

Discharge and suspended sediment data were collected from October 2016 to Febuary 2017 at the NR0 site.  Data was collected immediately down stream of Old Pacific Hwy SE bridge during a bridge measurement and approximately 100 meters below bridge for a boat measurement.  Data collection from the bridge has been ongoing since 1968 but data collection from a boat was first attempted October 21, 2016 during this data collection series. Suspended sediment sample and discrete discharge data at this site are available at: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/wa/nwis/inventory/?site_no=12090240&amp;agency_cd=USGS&amp;. A summary of suspended-sediment sample data are provided with this data release in the file NR0_SSC_summary.csv.

Tags: billy-frank-jr-nisqually-national-wildlife-refuge, hydrodynamics, salinity, sediment, specific-conductance, stream-stage, temperature, thurston-county, time-series-data, usgs-5a53a1bfe4b01e7be22fa8db
Organization: Department of the Interior
Repeat high-resolution bathymetry datasets collected between 2014 and 2016 of a field of crescent-shaped rippled scour depressions in northern Monterey Bay, California

Between November 2014 and June 2016 the U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) conducted eight repeat, high-resolution bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter surveys of a small patch of seafloor offshore Santa Cruz in northern Monterey Bay, California. PCMSC also collected oceanographic time-series data over the same two-year period. This metadata file describes the eight bathymetry datasets.

Tags: acoustic-methods, bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interferometric-sonar, mapping, marine-geophysics, monterey-bay, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, ripple-mark, santa-cruz, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, state-of-california, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5a53bbf5e4b01e7be22fc6f8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Repeat high-resolution acoustic-backscatter datasets collected between 2014 and 2016 of a field of crescent-shaped rippled scour depressions in northern Monterey Bay, California

Between November 2014 and June 2016 the U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) conducted eight repeat, high-resolution bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter surveys of a small patch of seafloor offshore Santa Cruz in northern Monterey Bay, California. PCMSC also collected oceanographic time-series data over the same two-year period. This metadata file describes the eight acoustic-backscatter datasets.

Tags: acoustic-methods, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interferometric-sonar, mapping, marine-geophysics, monterey-bay, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, ripple-mark, santa-cruz, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, state-of-california, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5a53bc65e4b01e7be22fc6fb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airsoft electric gun evaluation on Brown Treesnakes, Guam, 2016

The data set consists of 2 spreadsheets from Airsoft Electric Gun (AEG) trials on brown treesnakes. AEG snake wound data contains AEG results from guns equipped with 0.39 gram ammunition (plastic pellets ) that were fired at dead and live snakes from distances of 4, 8, and 12 m to measure tissue-penetration depth, and noted if (a) the pellet was lodged inside the peritoneal cavity, (b) the pellet had completely passed through and left the body, (c) the pellet appeared to have damaged the vertebral column, (d) ribs were broken, and (e) any internal organs appeared to be damaged.  AEG live snake ballistic data contains information on limited AEG trials with live snakes shot at distances of 4, 8, and 12 m and their behavioral responses when hit with 0.39 gram ammunition.

Tags: biota, invasive-species, pest-control, usgs-5a53d19ee4b01e7be230873c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Modeled historical land use and land cover for the conterminous United States, 1992-2002

This tabular data set contains information on historic land use, compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2.1 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2.1 data suite by the unique identifier COMID.  The source data is from the Modeled historical land use and land cover for the conterminous United States produced by Terry Sohl and others (USGS, 2014). The data provided here contains information for the years, 1992 through 2002, compiled as described above. The units are in percents. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions. Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2016).

Tags: backcasting, inlandwaters, land-cover, land-use, nhdplus, usgs-5a5406bee4b01e7be2308855
Organization: Department of the Interior
Switchgrass waterway buffers in the eastern Great Plains

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), a highly productive perennial grass, has been recommended as one potential source for cellulosic biofuel feedstocks. Previous studies indicate that planting perennial grasses (e.g., switchgrass) in high topographic relief cropland waterway buffers can improve local environmental conditions and sustainability. The main advantages of this land management practice include (1) reducing soil erosion and improving water quality because switchgrass requires less tillage, fertilizers, and pesticides; and (2) improving regional ecosystem services (e.g., improving water infiltration, minimizing drought and flood impacts on production, and serving as carbon sinks). In this study, we mapped high topographic relief cropland waterway buffers with high switchgrass productivity potential that may be suitable for switchgrass development in the eastern Great Plains (EGP). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Compound Topographic Index (CTI) map, National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD 2011), USGS irrigation map, and a switchgrass biomass productivity map derived from a previous study (Gu et al., 2015) were used to identify the switchgrass potential areas.

Tags: cellulosic-biofuel, crop, erosion, riparian-zones, switchgrass, usgs-5a54ee02e4b01e7be24292bb, watershed-management, waterway
Organization: Department of the Interior
CoSMoS (Coastal Storm Modeling System) Southern California v3.0 Phase 2 water-level projections: 1-year storm in the Channel Islands

Model-derived total water levels (in meters) for the given storm condition and sea-level rise (SLR) scenario.
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-5a54f6d6e4b01e7be242b8ff, water-depth, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
CoSMoS (Coastal Storm Modeling System) Southern California v3.0 Phase 2 wave-hazard projections: 1-year storm in Channel Islands

Model-derived significant wave height (in meters) for the given storm condition and sea-level rise (SLR) scenario.
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-5a54f713e4b01e7be242b904, water-depth, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Time-lapse photography of Milford Lake, Kansas, June through November 2016

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release provides time-lapse photography collected from six sites at Milford Lake, Kansas, during June through November 2016. All photographic images are displayed using a .mov common multimedia format. Time-lapse cameras were used to visually capture cyanobacterial accumulations and movement throughout Milford Lake, Kansas, at one-hour intervals from June 29 through July 20 then at five-minute intervals from July 21 through November 28. This dataset includes all time-lapse photography collected at six short-term, fixed-site locations as part of a study to evaluate the spatial variability of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in Milford Lake, Kansas.

Tags: cyanobacteria, cyanobacterial-accumulation, cyanobacterial-movement, harmful-algal-bloom, kansas, milford-lake, milford-lake-ks-north-camera, milford-lake-ks-north-causeway-camera, milford-lake-ks-south-camera, milford-lake-ks-south-causeway-camera, milford-lake-ks-timber-creek-boat-ramp-camera, milford-lake-ks-wakefield-boat-ramp-camera, photography, time-lapse, united-states, usgs-5a5784a9e4b01e7be245cd47, usgs-station-id-391101096592000, usgs-station-id-391244096582900, usgs-station-id-391248097001900, usgs-station-id-391259097001000, usgs-station-id-391300097001100, usgs-station-id-391406097010400
Organization: Department of the Interior
Methane and nitrous oxide temporal and spatial concentrations in the Iroquois River and Sugar Creek in Northwestern Indiana and Northeastern Illinois, 1999-2003 (ver. 2.0, November 2020)

A comprehensive study of water quality in two streams was conducted in the Midwestern United States in 1999 to 2003.  The Iroquois River and Sugar Creek, located in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois have been heavily impacted by agricultural land use and contain relatively high concentrations of inorganic nitrogen, primarily as nitrate.  As part of that study, samples were collected and analyzed for dissolved methane and nitrous oxide concentrations to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the streams and the relation of GHG concentrations to concentrations of other inorganic nitrogen species in the water.  These data are the results of that study.  The data include GHG and nutrient samples collected on a biweekly basis at one sampling station on each stream from 1999 to 2002, Lagrangian and synoptic sampling events conducted along several kilometer-long reaches of each stream 1999 to 2002, and diel sampling conducted in Sugar Creek at two different locations in 2003.

Tags: biogeochemical-processes, greenhouse-gas, nutrient-content, river-reach, surface-water, usgs-5a55014ce4b01e7be242b92a, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Regression diagnostics and coefficients for the tributary nutrient and sediment monitoring program on the Great Lakes, 2011-2013

Regression diagnostics (including number of observations, residual variance, R squared, bias percentage, Akaike's information criterion (AIC), Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency) and coefficients (variable, estimate, standard error, Z score, p-value) for the tributary nutrient and sediment monitoring program on the Great Lakes, 2011-2013

Tags: hydrology, surface-water-quality, usgs-5a562663e4b01e7be24444ba, usgsrloadestmodel
Organization: Department of the Interior