Climate, Wildfire, and Erosion Data, Western US

These data were used to examine how post-fire sedimentation might change in western USA watersheds with future fire from the decade of 2001-10 through 2041-50. The data include previously published projections (Hawbaker and Zhu, 2012a, b) of areas burned by future wildfires for several climate change scenarios and general circulation models (GCMs) that we summarized for 471 watersheds of the western USA. The data also include previously published predictions (Miller et al., 2011) of first year post-fire hillslope soil erosion from GeoWEPP that we summarized for 471 watersheds of the western USA. We synthesized these summarized data in order to project sediment yield from future fires for 471 watersheds through the...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: A1B emission scenario, A2 emission scenario, Annual Post-fire Sediment Yield, Arizona, Average Burned Area, All tags... B1 emission scenario, Burned area projections, California, Climate Change, Colorado, Decadal summaries, Erosion, First year post-fire, Future post-fire sediment yield, Future wildfires, GCM, GIS-based erosion model, General circulation model, HUC, HUC8, Hillslope soil erosion rates, Hydrologic unit code, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Post-fire, Projected watershed sediment yield, Sediment, Sediment yield, Simulations, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, Watershed sediment yield estimates, Watersheds, Western US, Wildfire perimeters, Wildfires, Fewer tags

Site characterization and regeneration attributes of managed and unmanaged ponderosa pine sites in the southwestern United States

These data consist of environmental covariates, measured plot-level and tree characteristics for seven coniferous tree species across the southwestern United States. The objectives of the study were to assess how growth characteristics of conifer tree species vary across environmental gradients and across the different tree species. These data represent conifer growth under a variety of stand and site characteristics. These data were collected in the summer of 2019, from sites across Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, and collected by field crews directed by Matt Petrie (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Rob Hubbard (USDA Forest Service), Tom Kolb (Northern Arizona University) and John Bradford (U.S. Geological...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Climatology, Colorado, All tags... Ecology, Forestry, Geography, Geomorphology, Idaho, Information Sciences, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Soil Sciences, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:645abf44d34ec179a8378de3, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, conifer forests, conifer growth, conifer regeneration, conifer tree regeneration, coniferous tree, daily meteorological estimates, data release, dryland forests, ecological processes, ecosystem management, effects of climate change, environment, environmental conditions, environmental covariates, estimates, field inventory and monitoring, field-measured, forest ecosystems, forest management, geoscientificInformation, meteorology, plot sampling, ponderosa forests, predictor variable, recruitment, regeneration failure, simulations, site characteristics, soil moisture, soil resources, soil temperature, southwestern United States, stand characteristics, tree characteristics, tree growth, vegetation, vegetation cover, vegetation type, western United States, Fewer tags

Broadband Ground Motion Simulations for 12 California Region Earthquakes

This Data Release consists of broadband ground motion simulations for 12 California region earthquakes. The ground motion simulations were done as part of a validation study that is described in more detail in Graves (2022). These simulations were computed using a hybrid simulation methodology (hereafter referred to as GP). The GP approach is a hybrid in that separate responses are computed for the low- and high-frequency components, which are then summed together to produce the full broadband response. The 12 earthquakes considered in Graves, R.W. (2022). Using a Grid-Search Approach to Validate the Graves-Pitarka Broadband Simulation Method, Earth, Planets and Space, 74:186, doi: 10.1186/s40623-022-01742-y, are...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Geophysics, Seismology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, All tags... earthquakes, simulations, Fewer tags