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Grids of Agricultural Pesticide Use in the Conterminous United States, 1992

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Release Date
2007-08-01
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Citation

Nakagaki, N., 2007, Grids of Agricultural Pesticide Use in the Conterminous United States, 1992: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9SO4ZBF.

Summary

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This spatial dataset consists of 199 1-kilometer (km) resolution grids depicting estimated agricultural use of 199 pesticides in 1992 for the conterminous United States. Each grid cell value in the national grids of this dataset is the estimated total kilograms (kg) of a pesticide applied to row crops, small grain crops and fallow land, pasture and hay crops, and orchard and vineyard crops within the 1- by 1-km area. Nonagricultural uses of pesticides [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center
Originator :
Naomi Nakagaki
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
California Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Purpose

The national grids of the agricultural use of 199 pesticides were developed to support hydrologic studies that are part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The goal of the NAWQA program is to develop long-term consistent and comparable information on streams, ground water, and aquatic ecosystems to support sound management and policy decisions (U.S. Geological Survey, 2001; Gilliom and others, 1995). The NAWQA program, which began in 1991, consists of long-term cyclical studies in over 50 major river basins and aquifers in the United States. Pesticide-use grids are used in the NAWQA program to: 1) determine overall estimates of agricultural pesticide use in major watersheds (as documented in Nakagaki and Wolock, 2005) and other large study areas; 2) provide input into national models, such as the regression model for predicting concentration of pesticide distributions in unmonitored rivers and streams (as described in Larson and others, 2004); and 3) display the spatial distribution and use intensity of agricultural pesticides in the conterminous United States in USGS publications (as shown in Gilliom and others, 2006). Purpose References: Gilliom, R.J., Alley, W.M., and Gurtz, M.E., 1995, Design of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program--occurrence and distribution of water-quality conditions: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1112, 33 p. Gilliom, R.J., Barbash, J.E., Crawford, C.G., Hamilton, P.A., Martin, J.D., Nakagaki, Naomi., Nowell, L.H., Scott, J.C., Stackelberg, P.E., Thelin, G.P., and Wolock, D.M., 2006, The Quality of Our Nation's Waters -- Pesticides in the Nation's Streams and Ground Water, 1992-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1291, 172 p. Larson, S.J., Crawford, C.G., and Gilliom, R.J., 2004, Development and application of watershed regressions for pesticides (WARP) for estimating atrazine concentration distributions in streams: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4047, 68 p. Nakagaki, Naomi, and Wolock, D.M., 2005, Estimation of agricultural pesticide use in drainage basins using land cover maps and county pesticide data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1188, 46 p. U.S. Geological Survey, 2001, The National Water Quality Assessment Program-- entering a new decade of investigations: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 071-01, accessed 1/30/06, at https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-071-01/
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Provenance

These data were originally released on the Water Mission Area National Spatial Data Infrastructure Node and were migrated to sciencebase.gov in 2023. These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS's policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9SO4ZBF

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