Estimates of Road Salt Application across the Conterminous United States, 1992-2019 (ver. 2.0, August 2023)
Dates
Publication Date
2018-08-21
Start Date
1992-01-01
End Date
2019-12-31
Revision
2023-08-29
Citation
Bock, A.R., Falcone, J.A., Oelsner, G., and Baker, N.T., 2018, Estimates of Road Salt Application across the Conterminous United States, 1992-2019 (ver. 2.0, August 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P96IX385.
Summary
Annual estimates of road salt application were initially developed for the conterminous United States for the calendar years 1992 through 2015. As more data became available, years 2016 through 2019 were added to the dataset. The final dataset consists of 28 rasters in Geostationary Earth Orbit Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF), one for each year from 1992 through 2019. The final estimates (in pounds) were derived from several data sources, which include road density and proportion of developed land use, depth and spatial extent of long-term snowfall, and the production and distribution of salt sources by state. The extent is the conterminous United States, and the spatial resolution is one-square kilometer.
Summary
Annual estimates of road salt application were initially developed for the conterminous United States for the calendar years 1992 through 2015. As more data became available, years 2016 through 2019 were added to the dataset. The final dataset consists of 28 rasters in Geostationary Earth Orbit Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF), one for each year from 1992 through 2019. The final estimates (in pounds) were derived from several data sources, which include road density and proportion of developed land use, depth and spatial extent of long-term snowfall, and the production and distribution of salt sources by state. The extent is the conterminous United States, and the spatial resolution is one-square kilometer.
Revision 2.0 by Nancy Baker on August 29, 2023. To review the changes that were made, see “Version history 2016-2019.txt” in the attached files section.
