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Geospatially derived environmental characteristics to prioritize watersheds for research and monitoring needs within 18 hydrologic regions across the United States

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2022

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Qi, S.L., Baker, N.T., Johnson Mckee, A., and Milinic, B., 2023, Geospatially derived environmental characteristics to prioritize watersheds for research and monitoring needs within 18 hydrologic regions across the United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KFU815.

Summary

Water availability for human and ecosystem needs is a function of both water quantity and water quality, as described in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Science Strategy (Evenson and others, 2013). Recently, a quantitative approach to prioritize candidate watersheds for monitoring investment was developed to understand changes in water availability and advance the objectives of new USGS programs (Van Metre and others, 2020). In this study design, the contiguous United States (CONUS) was divided into 18 regions (referred to here as “hydrologic regions” or “HRs”) with relatively homogeneous hydrologic drivers and processes to represent the wide diversity in conditions that exist across the CONUS. The gap analysis focused on prioritizing [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Sharon L Qi
Originator :
Sharon L Qi, Nancy T Baker, Allegra (Contractor) E Johnson Mckee, Bojan (Contractor) Milinic
Metadata Contact :
Sharon L Qi
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Colorado Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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GapsAnalysisData_FGDC_Metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		31.91 KB application/fgdc+xml
Boundaries.zip 105.33 MB application/zip
CECs_HUC4Variables.csv 63.94 KB text/csv
DataDictionary.csv 70.02 KB text/csv
Geogenics_HUC4Variables.zip 238.32 KB application/zip
Nutrients_Variables.zip 256.75 KB application/zip
Salinity_HUC4Variables.csv 24.06 KB text/csv
Sediment_HUC4Variables.zip 31.41 KB application/zip
SourceDictionary.csv 16.76 KB text/csv
Temperature_HUC4Variables.csv 44.64 KB text/csv

Purpose

The geospatially derived data in this data release were used to prioritize HUC4 watersheds nationally and within each hydrologic region, for each of six water-quality parameter data groups; temperature, sediment, salinity, nutrients, geogenics, and CECs.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9KFU815

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