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Basin characteristics for sites used in RESTORE Streamflow alteration assessments Basin boundaries were delineated for 1,320 USGS streamgages located on tributaries and streams flowing to the Gulf of Mexico. Basins ranged in size from less than 1 to approximately 67,500 square miles. Physical and climatic basin characteristics were calculated using these boundaries. Data presented here will be used as independent variables to estimate streamflow characteristics and provide a numerical foundation supporting the: (1) development of statistical models of streamflow characteristics; (2) evaluation of spatial and temporal trends in streamflow characteristics; and (3) development of network optimization analysis. Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags Distribution Models of Flow-Duration Quantiles for Streamgages Using previously published (Robinson and others, 2019) no-flow fractions and L-moments of nonzero streamflow from decadal streamflow flow-duration analysis (daily mean streamflow), probability distributions were fit to provide 27 estimated quantiles of decadal flow-duration curves, and hence the probability distributions are a form of parametric modeling that ensures monotonicity of the quantiles by non-exceedance probability (NEP). For both U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations (streamgages) and level-12 hydrologic unit code (HUC12) catchments, as defined by Crowley-Ornelas and others (2019), the 27 quantiles were estimated and tabulated in this data release. Three probability distributions were used... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, All tags... Gulf of Mexico, HUC12, L-moments, Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, decadal, flow-duration curves, quantile, streamgages, Fewer tags Heuristically-determined geospatial boundary of streams and rivers draining to the Gulf of Mexico in the south-central and southeastern United States, July 2018 Human alteration of waterways has impacted the minimum and maximum streamflow in more than 86% of monitored streams nationally and may be the primary cause for ecological impairment in river and stream ecosystems. Restoration of freshwater inflows can positively affect shellfish, fisheries, habitat, and water quality in streams, rivers, and estuaries. Increasingly, state and local decision makers and Federal agencies are turning their attention to the restoration of flows as part of a holistic approach to restoring water quality and habitat and protecting and replenishing living coastal and marine resources and the livelihoods that depend on them. In 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Lower Mississippi-Gulf... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags Natural and managed components of the water-budget from 2008–2012 for 43 HUC10s in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, U.S. A simple water budget includes precipitation, streamflow, change in storage, evapotranspiration, and residuals: P=Q + ET + ΔS + e. It is essential to include the managed component (i.e., the “human” component) to close the water budget and reduce the magnitude of the residuals from “natural” water budgets. Some of the largest components of managed water withdraws are public supply, irrigation, and thermoelectric. The modified water budget is: P=Q + ET + ΔS + (PS + Irr + TE) + e, where PS is public supply, Irr is irrigation, and TE is thermoelectric water use. This data release contains both the natural and managed components of the water budget for a region within the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Apalachicola River, Chattahoochee River, Flint River, Georgia, Gulf Coast, All tags... Southeastern United States, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), human component, modeling, water budget, water management, water-use, Fewer tags Distribution Models of Flow-Duration Quantiles for HUC12s Using previously published (Robinson and others, 2019) no-flow fractions and L-moments of nonzero streamflow from decadal streamflow flow-duration analysis (daily mean streamflow), probability distributions were fit to provide 27 estimated quantiles of decadal flow-duration curves, and hence the probability distributions are a form of parametric modeling that ensures monotonicity of the quantiles by non-exceedance probability (NEP). For both U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations (streamgages) and level-12 hydrologic unit code (HUC12) catchments, as defined by Crowley-Ornelas and others (2019), the 27 quantiles were estimated and tabulated in this data release. Three probability distributions were used... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, All tags... Gulf of Mexico, HUC12, L-moments, Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, decadal, flow-duration curves, quantile, streamgages, Fewer tags Summary of basin characteristics for National Hydrography Dataset, version 2 catchments in the southeastern United States, 1950 - 2010 at USGS streamflow-gaging stations This dataset provides numerical and categorical descriptions of 48 basin characteristics for 956 basins with observed streamflow information at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamflow-gaging stations. Characteristics are indexed by National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) version 2 COMID (integer that uniquely identifies each feature in the NHD) and USGS station number for streamflow-gaging station. The variables represent mutable and immutable basin characteristics and are organized by characteristic type: physical (5), hydrologic (6), categorical (12), climate (6), landscape alteration (7), and land cover (12). Mutable characteristics such as climate, land cover, and landscape alteration variables are reported in decadal... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags Natural and managed components of the water-budget from 2008–2012 for 43 HUC10s in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, U.S. A simple water budget includes precipitation, streamflow, change in storage, evapotranspiration, and residuals: P=Q + ET + ΔS + e. It is essential to include the managed component (i.e., the “human” component) to close the water budget and reduce the magnitude of the residuals from “natural” water budgets. Some of the largest components of managed water withdraws are public supply, irrigation, and thermoelectric. The modified water budget is: P=Q + ET + ΔS + (PS + Irr + TE) + e, where PS is public supply, Irr is irrigation, and TE is thermoelectric water use. This data release contains both the natural and managed components of the water budget for a region within the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Apalachicola River, Chattahoochee River, Flint River, Georgia, Gulf Coast, All tags... Southeastern United States, human component, modeling, water budget, water management, water-use, Fewer tags Summary of basin characteristics for National Hydrography Dataset, version 2 catchments in the southeastern United States, 1950 - 2010 at 12-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC12) pour points This dataset provides numerical and categorical descriptions of 48 basin characteristics for 9,314 ungaged basins coinciding with 12-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC12) pour points that drain to the Gulf of Mexico. Characteristics are indexed by National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) version 2 COMID (integer that uniquely identifies each feature in the NHD) and HUC12 identifying number. The variables represent mutable and immutable basin characteristics and are organized by characteristic type: physical (5), hydrologic (6), categorical (12), climate (6), landscape alteration (7), and land cover (12). Mutable characteristics such as climate, land cover, and landscape alteration variables are reported in decadal increments... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags Trend Departure Index Results for sites in the RESTORE Trend Analysis and Hydrologic Alteration Studies This dataset includes results of the Trend Departure Index (TDI) for 139 sites in the RESTORE trend analysis study and approximately 9,200 HUC12 pour points in the streamflow alteration study. Data from the 139 sites in the trend analysis were compared against reference site data from the GAGES II dataset (Falcone and others, 2010) and were used to calculate the departure from reference conditions. The streamflow alteration study used pre- and post-periods of analysis to quantify hydrologic alteration in terms of a ratio. The TDI is a ratio of the difference between two sites divided by 365 (total number of trends per site). TDI varies from 0 to 1; a TDI of 0 indicates the trend results for the site are identical... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, Southeastern United States, TDI, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, trend departure index, Fewer tags GAP/LANDFIRE National Terrestrial Ecosystems 2011 The GAP National Terrestrial Ecosystems - Ver 3.0 is a 2011 update of the National Gap Analysis Project Land Cover Data - Version 2.2 for the conterminous U.S. The GAP National Terrestrial Ecosystems - Version 3.0 represents a highly thematically detailed land cover map of the U.S. The map legend includes types described by NatureServe's Ecological Systems Classification (Comer et al. 2002) as well as land use classes described in the National Land Cover Dataset 2011 (Homer et al. 2015). These data cover the entire continental U.S. and are a continuous data layer. These raster data have a 30 m x 30 m cell resolution. GAP used the best information available to create the land cover data; however GAP seeks to improve... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WMS Layer; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Appalachian, Arizona, Arkansas, All tags... California, Central United States, Colorado, Connecticut, Continental United States, Delaware, Desert, District of Columbia, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers, Florida, Georgia, Great Basin, Great Northern, Great Plains, Gulf Coast Plains and Ozarks, Gulf Coast Prairie, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Atlantic, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northeastern United States, Northwestern United States, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southeastern United States, Southern Rockies, Southwestern United States, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, biota, ecology, environment, land cover, remote sensing, terrestrial ecosystems, vegetation, vegetation, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags Summary of Decadal No-Flow Fractions and Decadal L-Moments of Nonzero Streamflow Flow-Duration Curves for National Hydrography Dataset, Version 2 Catchments in the Southeastern United States, 1950 - 2010, at 12-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC12) Pour Points Censored and uncensored generalized additive models (GAMs) are developed from 955 U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations (streamgages) to predict decadal statistics of streamflow. The streamgages are located on streams draining to the Gulf of Mexico. Decadal statistics include no-flow fractions and selected L-moments of nonzero streamflow for six decades (1950s—2000s). These statistics represent metrics of decadal flow-duration curves (dFDCs) derived from about 10 million daily mean streamflows. The L-moments include the mean, coefficient of L-variation, and the third through fifth L-moment ratios. The models are fit using watershed properties such as basin area and slope, decadal precipitation and temperature... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags Prioritization of areas for open pine ecosystem restoration in the Southeastern United States: All Species We used NLCD 2011, SSURGO, and SEGAP data to map the density of desired resources for open pine ecosystems and six focal species of birds and 2 reptiles within the historic range of longleaf pine east of the Mississippi River. Binary rasters were created of sites with desired characteristics such as land form, hydrology, land use and land cover, soils, potential habitat for focal species, and putative source populations of focal species. Each raster was smoothed using a kernel density estimator. Rasters were combined and scaled to map priority locations for the management of each focal species. Species’ rasters were combined and scaled to provide maps of overall priority for birds and for birds and reptiles. For... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Bird Conservation Region 24, East Gulf Coastal Plain Joint Venture, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, All tags... Mississippi, NCCWSC, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southeastern United States, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), ecosystem diversity, ecosystem functions, ecosystem management, ecosystems, restoration, Fewer tags Summary of decadal no-flow fractions and decadal L-moments of nonzero streamflow flow-duration curves for National Hydrography Dataset, Version 2 catchments in the southeastern United States, 1950 - 2010 Censored and uncensored generalized additive models (GAMs) are developed from 955 U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations (streamgages) to predict decadal statistics of streamflow. The streamgages are located on streams draining to the Gulf of Mexico. Decadal statistics include no-flow fractions and selected L-moments of nonzero streamflow for six decades (1950s—2000s). These statistics represent metrics of decadal flow-duration curves (dFDCs) derived from about 10 million daily mean streamflows. The L-moments include the mean, coefficient of L-variation, and the third through fifth L-moment ratios. The models are fit using watershed properties such as basin area and slope, decadal precipitation and temperature... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Hydrology, Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags Southeast Regional Stream Quality Assessment Ecological Data Aquatic ecological surveys are valuable to understanding the interaction between the biotic and abiotic components in rivers and streams. However, large-scale assessments of the water chemistry, geomorphology, and ecological community are usually not feasible due to limited resources. Beginning in 2013, the Regional Stream Quality Assessment Project of the US Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Program, began sampling 89-120 streams in each of 5 regions across the conterminous United States—the Midwest (2013), Southeast (2014), Pacific Northwest (2015), Northeast (2016), and California (2017). Sampling included water and streambed sediment chemistry, stage and temperature (Journey and others, 2015). The abiotic... Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southeast, All tags... Southeastern United States, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, algae, aquatic community, diatoms, fish, habitat, invertebrates, river, Fewer tags Solar radiation for National Hydrography Dataset, version 2 catchments in the southeastern United States, 1950 - 2010 This study is based on contiguous direct normal irradiance information from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Specifically, these data represent both 12-month specific average and annual average daily total solar resource averaged over surface cells of 0.1 degrees in both latitude and longitude. Spacing is about 10 kilometers in size. Direct normal irradiance is the amount of solar radiation received per unit area. For more information on direct normal irradiance see Introduction to Micrometeorology (Arya, 2001) or Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics (Salby, 1996). Following the metadata description by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, these modeled data are based on hourly radiance images from geostationary... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags Trend analysis results for sites used in RESTORE Streamflow alteration assessments Daily streamflow discharge data from 139 streamgages located on tributaries and streams flowing to the Gulf of Mexico were used to calculate mean monthly, mean seasonal, and decile values. Streamgages used to calculate trends required a minimum of 65 years of continuous daily streamflow data. These values were used to analyze trends in streamflow using the Mann-Kendall trend test in the R package entitled “Trends” and a new methodology created by Robert M. Hirsch known as a “Quantile-Kendall” plot. Data were analyzed based on water year using the Mann-Kendall trend test and by climate year using the Quantile-Kendall methodology to: (1) identify regions which are statistically similar for estimating streamflow characteristics;... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Map Service, OGC WMS Layer; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags Estimated daily mean streamflows for HUC12 pour points in the southeastern United States, 1950 - 2009 This data release contains estimated daily streamflow values for 9,203 12-digit hydrologic unit codes (HUC12s) in the southeastern United States for the period 1950-2009. The files are provided in text format, which can be used in R and in other programs. The 'Site Info' folder contains 18 files with streamgage information and the 'Daily Values' folder contains 18 files with predicted daily streamflow values for a given HUC12. Each of the datasets contains 500, 501, or 704 HUC12s, respectively. Data preparation and analysis of the predicted streamflow values were scripted in RStudio. Results of the analysis will be used to quantify streamflow alterations across the study area and will be published in a separate... Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, All tags... Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, biota, sreamflow, trend analysis, Fewer tags Chemical alteration index values and rare earth element data and expected ranges for regolith overlying the Stewartsville pluton, Virginia This dataset contains whole major element geochemical data used to calculate values of the chemical alteration index (CIA), data for Nd, Sm, Y, and total REE and expected ranges for total REEY for samples of regolith overlying the Stewartsville pluton, Virginia. The southeastern United States was first identified as prospective for regolith-hosted REE deposits based on the recognition that the region has been subjected to a long history of intense differential chemical weathering and saprolitization, comparable to that which formed the REE clay deposits of South China and Southeast Asia since the break-up of Pangea (Foley and Ayuso, 2013). Foley et al. (2014) established that due to their inherent high concentrations... Categories: Data; Tags: Appalachian, Geochemistry, Mineral Resources, Southeastern United States, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Virginia, geochemistry, mineral resources, regolith, Fewer tags Streamflow characteristics for sites used in RESTORE Streamflow alteration assessments A total of 193 streamflow characteristics (SFCs) were calculated from daily streamflow values for data from 1,371 USGS streamgages located on tributaries and streams flowing to the Gulf of Mexico. Streamgages used to calculate SFCs required a minimum of 10 years of continuous daily streamflow data. Data presented will be used to: (1) identify regions which are statistically similar for estimating streamflow characteristics; (2) develop regional regression models to predict SFC values for current and reference basin conditions at ungaged sites; and (3) identify trends related to changing streamflow and streamflow alteration over time. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags Solar radiation for National Hydrography Dataset, version 2 catchments in the southeastern United States, 1950 - 2010 at 12-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC12) pour points This study is based on contiguous direct normal irradiance information from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Specifically, these data represent both 12-month specific average and annual average daily total solar resource averaged over surface cells of 0.1 degrees in both latitude and longitude. Spacing is about 10 kilometers in size. Direct normal irradiance is the amount of solar radiation received per unit area. For more information on direct normal irradiance see Introduction to Micrometeorology (Arya, 2001) or Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics (Salby, 1996). Following the metadata description by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, these modeled data are based on hourly radiance images from geostationary... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, RESTORE, Southeastern United States, Texas, environmental flow, network optimization, reference hydrology, streamflow alteration, trend analysis, Fewer tags 1 2 »