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Hydrodynamic model of the Colorado River, Glen Canyon Dam to Lees Ferry in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona: tables of model results and accuracy assessment These data were compiled to provide a resource for other researchers interested in water-surface elevations and flow velocity across a wide range of discharge in the study reach for the project. Objective(s) of our study were to construct a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model for the 15.8 mile tailwater reach of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, Arizona. These data represent the results of the two-dimensional modeling effort with each data table (50) including the results of each run of the model. Additionally, other data represent a comparison of modeled water surface elevations to measured water surface elevations for historic Bureau of Reclamation cross sections in the study... Tags: Arizona, Coconino County, Colorado River, Geography, Glen Canyon, All tags... Glen Canyon Dam, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:6595800dd34e3265ab152e47, Water Resources, accuracy assessment, bathymetry, bathymetry measurement, bed shear stress, data release, digital elevation models, elevation, flow velocity, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, hydraulic characteristics, hydrodynamics, hydrographic datasets, inlandWaters, mathematical modeling, shoreline extents, stream discharge, streamflow, tailwater reach, topography, two-dimensional hydrodynamic model, velocities, water depths, water surface elevation, Fewer tags Bathymetry of Bubbly Creek and Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Sidings in Cook County, Illinois, July 2023 These data are high-resolution bathymetry (riverbed elevation) in compressed LAS (*.laz) format, generated from the July 17–19, 2023, hydrographic survey of Bubbly Creek and various sidings, harbors, and turning basins on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CS&SC) in Cook County, Illinois. The survey includes all Bubbly Creek from the confluence with the CS&SC in the north to the Racine Avenue Pump station in the south; various sidings and turning basins along the CS&SC between Kedzie Avenue and South Halsted Street; and the Marine Safety Station harbor near the Chicago Harbor Lock on Lake Michigan. This survey is a continuation and enhancement of the bathymetric survey of the CS&SC in Cook County, Illinois, conducted... Tags: Bathymetry and Elevation, Bubbly Creek, Chicago, Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Illinois, All tags... Inland Waters, Multibeam, Point Cloud, South Chicago River, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Depth, XYZ, bathymetry, elevation, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters, location, structure, Fewer tags MODFLOW-NWT Model Used to Evaluate Stream Capture Related to Groundwater Pumping, Lower Humboldt River Basin, Nevada (ver. 1.1, March 2024) A three-dimensional groundwater flow model using MODFLOW-NWT was developed to evaluate historical and potential stream capture in the lower Humboldt River Basin, Nevada. The Humboldt River Basin is the only river basin that is contained entirely within the state of Nevada. The effect of groundwater pumping on the Humboldt River is not well understood. Tools are needed to determine stream capture and manage groundwater pumping in the Humboldt River Basin. Previous work has demonstrated that the river’s surface-water resource is sensitive to groundwater withdrawals, which have steadily increased since the 1950s for agriculture, municipal, and mining uses. A numerical groundwater flow model was developed for the purpose... Categories: Data Release - Revised; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Capture, Groundwater Model, Humboldt River Basin watershed, Hydrology, InlandWaters, All tags... Lovelock, MODFLOW-NWT, Nevada, Pershing County, Stream Capture, Streamflow Depletion, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, environment, geoscientificInformation, groundwater, inlandWaters, lower Humboldt River Basin aquifer system, usgsgroundwatermodel, Fewer tags Appendix C - Density and vesicularity data for selected lava and tephra samples from the June 2007 Father's Day eruption site, Kīlauea Volcano An intrusion into Kīlauea’s upper East Rift Zone during June 17–19, 2007, during the 1983–2018 Pu‘u‘ō‘ō eruption, led to widespread ground cracking and a small (~1,525 m3) eruption on the northeast flank of the Kānenuiohamo cone, about 6 km upslope from the Pu‘u‘ō‘ō vent. Transmitted and induced very-low-frequency (VLF) magnetic fields were measured with a handheld VLF receiver along transects spanning the dike trace, and zones of ground cracking related to the intrusion were mapped. This dataset records the density and vesicularity of selected lava and tephra samples collected from the June 2007 Father's Day eruption site. The density of the basalt erupted was determined by measuring the weight of spatter and lava... Categories: Data; Tags: East Rift Zone, Episode 56, Father's Day event, Hawaii, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, All tags... Island of Hawaiʻi, Kānenuiohamo, Kīlauea, Puʻuʻōʻō, State of Hawaii, eruption, field inventory and monitoring, geoscientificInformation, intrusion, lava density, lava flow, lava vesicularity, tephra, volcanic activity, volcanology, Fewer tags Reference baselines used to extract shorelines for the West Coast of the United States This data release contains reference baselines for primarily open-ocean sandy beaches along the west coast of the United States (California, Oregon and Washington). The slopes were calculated while extracting shoreline position from lidar point cloud data collected between 2002 and 2011. The shoreline positions have been previously published, but the slopes have not. A reference baseline was defined and then evenly-spaced cross-shore beach transects were created. Then all data points within 1 meter of each transect were associated with each transect. Next, it was determined which points were one the foreshore, and then a linear regression was fit through the foreshore points. Beach slope was defined as the slope... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Coastal processes, MHW, Mean High Water, All tags... Oregon, Pacific Coast, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Washington, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, beach slope, environment, foreshore, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, shoreline, Fewer tags Beach foreshore slope for the West Coast of the United States This data release contains foreshore slopes for primarily open-ocean sandy beaches along the west coast of the United States (California, Oregon and Washington). The slopes were calculated while extracting shoreline position from lidar point cloud data collected between 2002 and 2011. The shoreline positions have been previously published, but the slopes have not. A reference baseline was defined and then evenly-spaced cross-shore beach transects were created. Then all data points within 1 meter of each transect were associated with each transect. Next, it was determined which points were one the foreshore, and then a linear regression was fit through the foreshore points. Beach slope was defined as the slope of... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Coastal processes, MHW, Mean High Water, All tags... Oregon, Pacific Coast, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Washington, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, beach slope, environment, foreshore, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, shoreline, Fewer tags Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessment (GLCWRA) Upper Peninsula, U.S.: Degree Flowlines This dataset is part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessment (GLCWRA) initiative. These data represent the flowline network in the Upper Peninsula Restoration Assessment (UPRA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections (e.g., road crossings) between the reach and Lake Ontario. The more road crossings on a flowline the more disconnected that area is from the lake and the less suitable it will be for restoration. These data help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and Lake Ontario. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections, such as culverts, between the reach and the water body requiring no flow network modification... Types: GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chippewa, Ecology, Great Lakes, Holocene, Hydrology, All tags... Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Land Use Change, Mackinac, Michigan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat suitability indices, hydrology, inlandWaters, lake, lakeshore, natural resource management, remediation, resource management, river, stream, water quality, wetland, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Global reference evapotranspiration for food-security monitoring (ver. 2.1, April 2024) The data are a long-term (1980-present), daily reanalysis of reference evapotranspiration, covering the globe at a spatial resolution of 0.625° Longitude x 0.5° Latitude. Reference evapotranspiration is a measure of evaporative demand, or the "thirst of the atmosphere", basically how much moisture from the surface could evaporate into overpassing air, assuming (i) that enough water is available to evaporate and (ii) the surface is covered with a specific reference crop that completely shades the ground (some other conditions also apply). For this dataset, reference evapotranspiration is derived from the daily implementation of the Penman-Monteith reference evapotranspiration equation (Monteith, 1965) as codified... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster; Tags: Climatology, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, All tags... food-security, geoscientificInformation, global, long-term daily product, reference evapotranspiration, Fewer tags Peak Streamflow Data, Climate Data, and Results from Investigating Hydroclimatic Trends and Climate Change Effects on Peak Streamflow in the Central United States, 1921–2020 Peak-flow frequency analysis is crucial in various water-resources management applications, including floodplain management and critical structure design. Federal guidelines for peak-flow frequency analyses, provided in Bulletin 17C, assume that the statistical properties of the hydrologic processes driving variability in peak flows do not change over time and so the frequency distribution of annual peak flows is stationary. Better understanding of long-term climatic persistence and further consideration of potential climate and land-use changes have caused the assumption of stationarity to be reexamined. This data release contains input data and results of a study investigating hydroclimatic trends in peak streamflow... Tags: Climatology, Hydrology, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, All tags... Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, Wisconsin, climate change, climatology, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, floods, geoscientificInformation, hydrology, inlandWaters, regression analysis, river systems, stream discharge, streamflow, surface water (non-marine), Fewer tags Elevation, Flow Accumulation, Flow Direction, and Stream Definition Data in Support of the Illinois StreamStats Upgrade to the Basin Delineation Database The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Illinois Center for Transportation and the Illinois Department of Transportation, prepared hydro-conditioned geographic information systems (GIS) layers for use in the Illinois StreamStats application. These data were used to delineate drainage basins and compute basin characteristics for updated peak flow and flow duration regression equations for Illinois. This dataset consists of raster grid files for elevation (dem), flow accumulation (fac), flow direction (fdr), and stream definition (str900) for each 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) area in Illinois merged into a single dataset. There are 51 full or partial HUC 8s represented by this data set: 04040002,... Tags: Geography, Hydrology, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wisconsin, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, hydrology, land surface characteristics, streamflow, topography, watershed management, Fewer tags Geospatial mapping products derived from 2018, 2020, and 2022 NAIP aerial imagery for the Scotts Creek Watershed, Lake County, CA The USGS, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), created a series of geospatial mapping products of the Scotts Creek Watershed in Lake County, California, using National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery from 2018, 2020 and 2022 and Open Street Map (OSM) from 2019. The imagery was downloaded from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Geospatial Data Gateway (https://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/) and Geofabrik GmbH - Open Street Map (https://www.geofabrik.de/geofabrik/openstreetmap.html), respectively. The imagery was classified using Random Forest (RF) Modeling to produce land cover maps with three main classifications - bare,... Tags: California, Lake County, Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, Scotts Creek, All tags... South Cow Mountain, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, aerial photography, elevation, freshwater ecosystems, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, modeling, natural resource management, remote sensing, river systems, Fewer tags Land Cover Maps for the Scotts Creek Watershed, Lake County, California for 2018, 2020, and 2022 The USGS, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), created a series of geospatial products of the Scotts Creek Watershed in Lake County, California, using National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery from 2018, 2020 and 2022. The imagery was downloaded from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Geospatial Data Gateway (https://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov). The NAIP imagery from 2018, 2020 and 2022 was classified using Random Forest Modeling to produce land cover maps with three main classifications – bare, vegetation, and shadows. A total of 600 independent reference points were used in the accuracy assessment. The overall accuracy... Tags: California, Lake County, Scotts Creek, South Cow Mountain, aerial photography, All tags... elevation, freshwater ecosystems, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, modeling, remote sensing, river systems, Fewer tags Lead, Radium, Cesium, and Thorium isotope activity in sediment samples from Los Padres reservoir, Carmel River watershed, California Sediment samples were collected from Los Padres reservoir in the Carmel River watershed, central California coast, between July 11 and 17, 2017, using a CME-45 barge-mounted drill rig, to characterize sedimentary properties in the reservoir deposits following the Soberanes Fire of 2016 and high river flows in winter 2017. Borehole samples were recovered using direct push coring with an Osterberg piston sampler operated by Taber Drilling Company of Sacramento, California, and overseen by AECOM, Inc. Sediment was recovered using a split-barrel sampler and a rotary drill bit was added to the sampler where needed to penetrate coarse sediment. Samples from three boreholes are described in this data release: two sampled... Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Carmel River, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Data Content Subjects, Geochemistry, All tags... Nonliving Resources, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Sciences, Sedimentology, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, coastal change hazards topics, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Fluvial Erosion Hazard Geospatial Network from the Marengo River Watershed, Ashland County, Wisconsin An extreme flood in 2016 caused widespread culvert blockages and road failures across northern Wisconsin, including extensive damage along steep tributaries and ravines in the Marengo River watershed. Along with the flooding, there were fluvial erosion hazards (FEH) associated with a large amount of erosion in headwater areas. Of special concern were FEHs associated with gullying, loss of wetland storage, and valley-side mass wasting. In 2020, a pilot study was begun to map and classify ephemeral and perennial streams and wetlands in terms of their susceptibility to fluvial erosion hazards. This study combines rapid geomorphic field assessments of river corridor erosion and coupled sediment and debris delivery with... Categories: Data, Map; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ashland, Bad-Montreal, Geomorphology, Great Lakes, North America, All tags... Sedimentology, Southwestern Lake Superior, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wisconsin, erosion, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, sediment transport, sedimentation, slope processes, Fewer tags Geologic Map of the valley corridor of the Niobrara National Scenic River, Nebraska This release of digital geologic map data covers the Niobrara National Scenic River, a 76-mile stretch of river at the northern edge of the Nebraska Sand Hills. The mapped area includes the National Park Service unit of the Niobrara National Scenic River and the adjoining Middle Niobrara Preserve of The Nature Conservancy, and the Fort Niobrara Wildlife Refuge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These digital geologic map data focus on the surficial geologic framework, dominated by the late Quaternary geology, of the Niobrara River valley corridor. These data are the result of geologic mapping begun by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2011 and continuing for about a decade. Mapping is based on geomorphic and other... Tags: Cretaceous, NCGMP, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, Nebraska, Niobrara, All tags... Quaternary, fluvial, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, glacial geology, Fewer tags Fallout-radionuclide activity in samples collected from fine-grained, streambed sediment in the Black Creek, Indiana stream-channel network, 2019 These data provide beryllium-7 (7Be) and excess lead-210 (210Pbxs) activity for fine-grained, mobile, streambed sediment in the Black Creek, Indiana (IN) stream-channel network. This basin is monitored in cooperation with the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). During the period July 22-25, 2019 (summer low flow), the thickness and spatial extent of soft, mobile, fine-grained (mainly silt and clay) streambed sediment was inventoried and sampled along 150-meter (m) transects. A combination of stream corridor land-use distribution, valley type, channel slope, stream order (Strahler, 1957), and ecoregion (Omernik and Griffith, 2014) was used to select 30 rapid geomorphic assessment reaches using methods of Fitzpatrick... Categories: Data; Tags: Allen County, Geochemistry, Geomorphology, Hydrology, Indiana, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Maumee, Water Resources, Western Lake Erie, agriculture, field monitoring stations, geoscientificinformation, land use and land cover, sediment transport, streambed material, surface water quality, Fewer tags Delmarva Peninsula Stream Health and Habitat Assessments in Maryland and Delaware (2022) U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists completed a data collection campaign from the 25th of April to the 10th of June in 2022, using various methods to record geomorphic and habitat indicators throughout 30 streams on the Delmarva Peninsula. Field methods included GNSS surveys, gravelometer-based pebble count readings, visual assessments, and riparian analyses. This metadata record contains all raw observations from the campaign as well as numerous summary metrics to be used in model development. Those "model-ready" data can be found in Delmarva_Model_Deliverable.csv in the parent item, while the two child items containing raw in-channel observations and raw survey data. Attached to this release is a data dictionary... Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware, Delmarva Peninsula, GPS measurement, All tags... Maryland, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, agriculture, dendrochronology, environmental health (human), erosion, geography, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, habitat, hydrology, inlandWaters, riparian, river reaches, stream survey, streams, transect sampling, usgs, Fewer tags Hydrologic gridded runoff and routed discharge data for Africa from 2000-2021 This dataset, VegDischarge v1, represents a significant contribution to the understanding of hydrological dynamics across Africa from 2000 to 2021. It encompasses high-resolution (1km x 1km) monthly raster data of deep drainage, surface runoff, and total runoff, derived from the VegET (VegetationEvapoTranspiration) hydrological model (Senay et al., 2023). Additionally, routed discharge data (Mizukami et al., 2021) for over 63,000 river segments is provided, employing different routing algorithms (DW, KW, KWT, MC, and IRF) to demonstrate variability in river discharge patterns. This comprehensive dataset is stored in NetCDF and Shapefile formats, offering valuable insights for policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers... Categories: Data; Types: Data, Downloadable, Map Service, NetCDF OPeNDAP Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: Africa, Hydrology, Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... VegET model, VegHydro Model, deep drainage, discharge, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, raster data, routed discharge data, runoff, surface runoff, Fewer tags Subaerially exposed river sand and reservoir shoreline modelling for Lake Powell releases and changes in Lake Powell and Lake Mead storage These data were compiled to evaluate impacts of different reservoir management scenarios on sand exposure for aeolian landscape and cultural site resources. Objective of our study was to predict areas of dry, bare Colorado River sand as a function of different management alternative scenarios. These data represent predictions of dry, bare sand for the reach of the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Bright Angel Creek in Grand Canyon National Park. These data were created during 2023 by the U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. These data can be used to understand how the area of sand available for windblown transport might be impacted different... Tags: Arizona, Coconino County, Colorado River, Ecology, Geography, All tags... Geomorphology, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lake Powell, Sedimentology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, aeolian, archaeology, cultural, dam, data release, freshwater ecosystems, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, modeling, reservoir, river systems, sand deposits, sedimentation, subaerial, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags Appendix B - Line lengths for crack stations in Nāpau Crater An intrusion into Kīlauea’s upper East Rift Zone during June 17–19, 2007, during the 1983–2018 Pu‘u‘ō‘ō eruption, led to widespread ground cracking and a small (~1,525 m3) eruption on the northeast flank of the Kānenuiohamo cone, about 6 km upslope from the Pu‘u‘ō‘ō vent. Transmitted and induced very-low-frequency (VLF) magnetic fields were measured with a handheld VLF receiver along transects spanning the dike trace, and zones of ground cracking related to the intrusion were mapped. This dataset records the distance between sets of nails spanning ground cracks at discrete locations in Nāpau Crater, installed in 1997 as "crack stations" to monitor change. See fig. B-1 in the associated publication for a map of crack... Categories: Data; Tags: East Rift Zone, Episode 56, Father's Day event, Hawaii, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, All tags... Island of Hawaiʻi, Kīlauea, Nāpau Crater, Puʻuʻōʻō, State of Hawaii, dike, eruption, field inventory and monitoring, geoscientificInformation, ground crack, intrusion, volcanic activity, volcanology, Fewer tags 1 2 »