Are the responses of the U.S. economy asymmetric in energy price increases and decreases?

How much does real GDP respond to unanticipated changes in the real price of oil? Commonly used censored VAR models suggest a substantial decline in real GDP in response to unexpected increases in the real price of oil, yet no response to unexpected declines. We show that these estimates are invalid. Based on a structural model that encompasses both symmetric and asymmetric models as special cases, correctly computed impulse responses are of roughly the same magnitude in either direction, consistent with formal tests for symmetric responses. We discuss implications for theoretical models and for policy responses to energy price shocks.

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Asymmetry, autoregression., energy prices, net increase, oil price, All tags... propagation, shocks, transmission, vector, Fewer tags

Collection of digital structure contour maps from previously published USGS studies

Under the direction and funding of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP) with guidance and encouragement from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), there has been a decadal strategic plan in place to call for geologic mapping across the nation. This call has been increasing the need for digital data that has not yet been made available. With such a demand, physical data is being re-released as vector-based, GIS operable data, which is viable as a corporate asset to the USGS. This collection of reports is part of the compilation and synthesis efforts hampered by the distributed nature of subsurface investigations at the USGS and a general lack of cataloging and archiving of 3-D geological...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Almond Formation, Arizona, Baxter Shale, Castlegate Sandstone, Colorado, All tags... Colorado Shale, Cutler Group, Dakota Formation, Dakota Sandstone, Exshaw Black Shale, Federal Geographic Data Committee, Fox Hills Sandstone, GeMS, Geologic Mapping Schema, Geomorphology, Glorieta Sandstone, Goose Egg Formation, Kinderhook Black Shale, Leadville Limestone, Lewis Shale, Minnelusa Formation, Montana, Morrison Formation, Mowry Shale, National Cooperative Geologic Map Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, New Mexico, North Dakota, Paradox Basin, Permian, Piceance Basin, Piceance Creek Basin, Pierre Shale, Powder River Basin, Rocky Mountains, Rollins Sandstone, San Andres Limestone, San Juan Basin, San Juan Mountains, San Juan Volcanics, Sedimentology, South Dakota, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, Sundance Formation, Sundance Unconformity, Tensleep Sandstone, Trout Creek Sandstone, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Uinta Basin, Utah, Wasatch Formation, Williston Basin, Wyoming, boundaries, chronostratigraphy, elevation, elevation, estimated thickness, geoscientificInformation, isopach contour, stratigraphy, structure contour, thickness contour, vector, Fewer tags

The National Map

As one of the cornerstones of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Geospatial Program, The National Map is a collaborative effort among the USGS and other Federal, State, and local partners to improve and deliver topographic information for the Nation. It has many uses ranging from recreation to scientific analysis to emergency response. The National Map is easily accessible for display on the Web, as products and services, and as downloadable data. The geographic information available from The National Map includes orthoimagery (aerial photographs), elevation, geographic names, hydrography, boundaries, transportation, structures, and land cover.

Tags: 1 arc-second DEM, 1 meter DEM, 1-degree DEM, 1/3 arc-second DEM, 1/9 arc-second DEM, All tags... 10,000 meter DEM, 15-minute DEM, 2 arc-second DEM, 3DEP, Administrative watershed units, Aerial Compliance, Aerial Photography, Agricultural land, Airport Complex, Airport Point, Airport Runway, Airports, Airstrips, Area of Complex Channels, Area to be submerged, Bare Earth, Barren land, Basin, Bay/Inlet, Boundaries, Boundary, Bridge, Canal/Ditch, Cartography, Coastline, College / University, Compliance, Connector, County or Equivalent, DEM, Dam/Weir, Digital Elevation Model, Digital Mapping, Digital Ortho rectified Image, Digital Terrain Model, Drainage areas for surface water, Elevation, Elevation Theme, Estuary, Feature class, Feature coordinates, Feature county, Feature description, Feature designation, Feature history, Feature identification, Feature name, Feature state, Fire Station/ EMS Station, Flow direction network, Flume, ForeShore, Forest land, GIS, Gaging Station, Gate, Geodata, Geographic feature, Geographic name, Geographic names, Geographical feature, Geographical name, Georeferenced, Governmental Units, and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries Theme, Grid, HU10, HU12, HU14, HU16, HU2, HU4, HU6, HU8, HUC, Hazard Zone, High Resolution, High Resolution Orthoimagery, Hospital/Medical Center, Hydro-Flattened, Hydrographic, Hydrography, Hydrologic Unit Code, Hydrologic Units, IFSAR, Ice mass, Image processing, Impervious, Imperviousness, Incorporated Place, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, Inundation Area, JPEG 2000, Juction, Jurisdictional, LAS, LIDAR, LIght Detection And Ranging, Land Use-Land Cover Theme, Land cover, Law Enforcement, Levee, Light Detection and Ranging, Line, Lock Chamber, Mapping, Marsh, Minor Civil Division, NAIP, NED, NGDA, National Elevation Dataset, National Geospatial Data Asset, Native American Area, NavAid, Nonearthen Shore, Not Classified, Official feature name, Ortho Rectification, Orthoimage, PLSS First Division, PLSS Special Survey, PLSS Township, Percent Developed Imperviousness, Place name, Playa, Point, Point Cloud, PointEvent, Pond, Prison/ Correctional Facility, Public Land Survey System, Quarter Quadrangle, Railways, Range land, Rapids, Raster, Reach, Reach code, Real Property Theme, Reef, Region, Reserve, Reservoir, Roads, Rock, School, School:Elementary, School:High School, School:Middle School, Sea/Ocean, Sink/Rise, Sounding Datum Line, Special Use Zone, Special Use Zone Limit, Spillway, State Capitol, State or Territory, Stream/River, Sub-basin, Sub-region, Subbasin, Submerged Stream, Subregion, Subwatershed, Survey, Swamp, Technical School, Terrain Elevation, Topographic, Topographic Surface, Topography, Trade School, TrailFeature, Trails, Transportation, Transportation Theme, Tunnel, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. National Grid, USGS, Underground Conduit, Unincorporated Place, Urban and built-up land, Variant name, Vector, WBD, Wall, Wash, Water, Water Intake Outflow, Water – Inland Theme, Waterfall, Watershed, Watershed Boundaries, Watershed Boundary Dataset, Waterway, Well, Wetland, Woodland, a-16, altitude, annotations, artificial path, biota, boundaries, boundaries, boundary, cadastral surveys, contour, dams, dems, digital spatial data, drainage systems and characteristics, ecology, economy, elevation, elevation, environment, flora, geographic names, grid, habitat, hydrography, image map, imagery, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters, lakes, land cover, land ownership, land use maps, legal land descriptions, location, natural color orthophoto, orthoimage, orthophoto, political and administrative boundaries, polygon grid, rectified image, rivers, slope, society, stream, structure, transportation, Fewer tags

Artesian power!: How to prepare for the coming groundwater revolution

How much does real GDP respond to unanticipated changes in the real price of oil? Commonly used censored VAR models suggest a substantial decline in real GDP in response to unexpected increases in the real price of oil, yet no response to unexpected declines. We show that these estimates are invalid. Based on a structural model that encompasses both symmetric and asymmetric models as special cases, correctly computed impulse responses are of roughly the same magnitude in either direction, consistent with formal tests for symmetric responses. We discuss implications for theoretical models and for policy responses to energy price shocks.

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Asymmetry, autoregression., energy prices, net increase, oil price, All tags... propagation, shocks, transmission, vector, Fewer tags

Lidar Point Cloud - USGS National Map 3DEP Downloadable Data Collection

This data collection of the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) consists of Lidar Point Cloud (LPC) projects as provided to the USGS. These point cloud files contain all the original lidar points collected, with the original spatial reference and units preserved. These data may have been used as the source of updates to the 1/3-arcsecond, 1-arcsecond, and 2-arcsecond seamless 3DEP Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). The 3DEP data holdings serve as the elevation layer of The National Map, and provide foundational elevation information for earth science studies and mapping applications in the United States. Lidar (Light detection and ranging) discrete-return point cloud data are available in LAZ format. The LAZ format is a lossless...

Types: Citation; Tags: 3DEP, Bare Earth, Cartography, DEM, Digital Elevation Model, All tags... Digital Mapping, Digital Terrain Model, Elevation, Elevation Theme, GIS, Geodata, High Resolution, LAS, LAZ, LIDAR, LIght Detection And Ranging, Mapping, NED, NGDA, NGDAID40, National Elevation Dataset, National Geospatial Data Asset, Point Cloud, Terrain Elevation, Topographic Surface, Topography, U.S. Geological Survey, US, USGS, USGS:b7e353d2-325f-4fc6-8d95-01254705638a, United States, Vector, elevation, Fewer tags

urban areas clipped to Dona Ana County, NM

TIGER, TIGER/Line, and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the Bureau of the Census. The Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the Census TIGER data base. The geographic coverage for a single TIGER/Line file is a county or statistical equivalent entity, with the coverage area based on January 1, 2000 legal boundaries. A complete set of Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files includes all counties and statistically equivalent entities in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files will not include files for the Island Areas. The Census TIGER data base represents a seamless national file with...

Tags: address range, boundary, census feature class code (cfcc), coordinate, county/county equivalent, All tags... feature identifier, geographic entity, landmark feature, latitude/longitude, line feature, point/node, political boundary, polygon, statistical boundary, street centerline, street segment, tiger/line, tiger/line identification number (tlid), topology, urban area, urban cluster, vector, zip code, Fewer tags

North Pacific Nearshore Sea Surface Temperature (SST) shapefile format (1981-2009)

The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data of the nearshore region of the North Pacific show temperature ranges in degrees C using points whose locations correspond to the centroids of AVHRR Pathfinder version 5 monthly, global, 4 km data set (PFSST V50). The pathfinder rasters are available from the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC), hosted by NASA JPL. The data points in this dataset lie within a 20 km buffer from the GSHHS (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline) coastline. The GSHHS vector data are available from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). Furthermore, each point in the SST dataset is categorized by the ecoregion in which it is located. This...

Categories: Data; Tags: 4 km, AVHRR, Aleutian, Asian Pacific, BC, All tags... Baja, British Columbia, CA, California, California Current System, Canada, China, East Asia, GIS, Gulf of Alaska, Japan, Kamchatka, Korea, Kuroshio, National CASC, North America, North Pacific, OR, Oregon, Oyashio, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast, Pathfinder, Russia, SST, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Vancouver, WA, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, Yellow Sea, biota, coast, ecoregion, global, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine, ocean, oceans, point, remote sensing, satellite, sea surface, shapefile, temperature, thermal, vector, Fewer tags

Ohio-drainage stream centerline coverage for use with Water Resources Investigations Report 03-4164

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 vector coverage of hydrography centerlines was derived from the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), and encompasses all of Ohio and portions of Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. This coverage is comprised of 105 Catalog Units (CUs) obtained from http://nhd.usgs.gov/. Each CU approximately represents a single 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC).

Categories: pre-SM502.8; Tags: Centerlines, Drainage, Hydrography, Indiana, Kentucky, All tags... Michigan, NHD, NSDI, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Streams, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vector, West Virginia, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Area of mutual interest clauses regarding oil and gas properties: Analysis, drafting, and procedure

How much does real GDP respond to unanticipated changes in the real price of oil? Commonly used censored VAR models suggest a substantial decline in real GDP in response to unexpected increases in the real price of oil, yet no response to unexpected declines. We show that these estimates are invalid. Based on a structural model that encompasses both symmetric and asymmetric models as special cases, correctly computed impulse responses are of roughly the same magnitude in either direction, consistent with formal tests for symmetric responses. We discuss implications for theoretical models and for policy responses to energy price shocks.

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Asymmetry, autoregression., energy prices, net increase, oil price, All tags... propagation, shocks, transmission, vector, Fewer tags