A Remote Sensing Approach to Characterize Winter Water Level Drawdown Patterns in Lakes

This data release consists of four datasets that were used for evaluating winter drawdown patterns in 166 Massachusetts lakes greater than 0.3 km2 surface area. The first dataset (“Water area and level.csv”) provides water area and water level time series data of 166 lakes from 2016 to 2021. Water area and water level time-series data were derived from European Space Agency’s Sentinel 1 synthetic aperture radar satellite sensor using the JavaScript code in Google Earth Engine platform. Details of this code were described in the software release (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZA5I1U). The second dataset (“Water area interpolated.csv”) is the linearly-interpolated daily water area time series data of the 166 lakes from...

Categories: Data; Tags: Massachusetts, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environment, hydrology, lake, All tags... natural resource management, remote sensing, water level measurements, Fewer tags

Salish Sea water level hindcast simulations: 1985-2015

Simulatations of water levels in the Salish Sea for a continuous hindcast of the period October 1, 1985, to September 30, 2015 were conducted to evaluate the utility and skill of a sea-level anomaly predictor and to develop extreme water level estimates accounting for decadal climate variability. The model accounts for sea level position, tides, remote sea-level anomalies, local winds and storm surge and stream flows as they affect water density. Comparison of modeled and measured water levels showed the model predicts extreme water levels at NOAA tide gage stations within 0.15 m. Model inputs and outputs of time-series water levels along the -5 m depth isobath are presented. In addition, extreme water level recurrence...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Climate Change, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Distributions, Extreme Weather, All tags... Hazards Planning, Ocean Winds, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Predictions, Puget Sound, Salish Sea, State of Washington, Storms, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Wind, coastal processes, geoscientificInformation, numerical modeling, oceans, water level measurements, Fewer tags

Ofu, American Samoa, wave and water level data, 2020

Time series data of wave height and water surface elevation were acquired for 399 days at four locations on the southern reef of Ofu, American Samoa, in support of a study on submarine groundwater dynamics on this reef within the National Park of American Samoa’s Ofu Unit. The relative placement of sensors on the reef were as follows: OFU20E03 – mid reef at East site; OFU20E04 – inner reef at East site; OFU20W03 – mid reef at West site; OFU20W04 – inner reef at West site.

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Marine Geology, Ofu Island, PCMSC, All tags... Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, South Ofu Beach, Territory of American Samoa, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Column Features, geoscientificInformation, marine water quality, ocean waves, oceans, physical oceanography, salinity/density, time series datasets, water level measurements, water pressure, wave observations, Fewer tags

Salish Sea water level validation simulations: 2017-2020

Simulations of water levels in the Salish Sea over the period October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2020 were conducted to validate the Salish Sea hydrodynamic model. The model accounts for sea level position, tides, remote sea-level anomalies, local winds and storm surge and stream flows as they affect water density. Comparison of modeled and measured water levels showed the model predicts extreme water levels at NOAA and USGS tide gage stations within 0.15 m. Model inputs and outputs of time-series forcing and water levels, respectively, are presented.

Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Climate Change, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Distributions, Extreme Weather, All tags... Hazards Planning, Ocean Winds, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Predictions, Puget Sound, Salish Sea, State of Washington, Storms, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Wind, coastal processes, geoscientificInformation, numerical modeling, oceans, water level measurements, Fewer tags

Hydrodynamic and sediment transport data from San Pablo Bay (northern San Francisco Bay), 2011-2012

The U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center collected data to investigate sediment dynamics in the shallows of San Pablo Bay in two deployments: February to March 2011 (ITX11) and May to June 2012 (ITX12). This data release includes time-series data and grain-size distributions from sediment grabs collected during the deployments. During each deployment, time series of current velocity, water depth, and turbidity were collected at several stations in the shallows, and one station in the channel. Velocity and depth (pressure) were collected at high frequency (10 Hz) to allow calculation of wave parameters and turbulence statistics. Instrumentation and data collected in the two deployments...

Tags: CONDUCTIVITY, CTD, CTD measurement, CURRENT METERS, CURRENTS, All tags... Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Current, PCMSC, PRESSURE SENSORS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, SALINITY, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, San Pablo Bay, Shallow-water habitat, State of California, Suspended-sediment concentration, TIDAL HEIGHT, TURBIDITY, Tidal shallows, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WATER DEPTH, WATER PRESSURE, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE HEIGHT GAUGES, Wind waves, inlandWaters, marine water quality, ocean waves, physical oceanography, time series datasets, water level measurements, wave observations, Fewer tags

Hydrodynamic and sediment transport data from San Pablo Bay and China Camp marsh (northern San Francisco Bay), 2013-2016.

The U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center collected data to investigate sediment dynamics in the shallows of San Pablo Bay and sediment exchange between bay shallows and the tidal salt marsh in China Camp State Park in a series of deployments between December 2013 and June 2016. This data release includes two related groups of data sets. The first group, denoted by names starting with CHC, is from deployments with stations in the San Pablo Bay channel, shallows, and mudflats, and within China Camp marsh. The second, denoted by names starting with SP, is from deployments at a subset of the stations in the San Pablo Bay shallows, collected during intervals between the CHC deployments. Stations...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMG, CMGP, CTD measurements, California, China Camp, All tags... Coastal and Marine Geology, Hydrogeology, Marin County, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, San Pablo Bay, SF Bay, CA, Shallow-water habitat, TIDAL HEIGHT, Tidal shallows, Tidally influenced/coastal/beach, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS current measurements, Water Depth, Water Pressure, Water Quality, coastal, conductivity, currents, currents, inlandWaters, marsh sediment, physical oceanography, salt marsh, sea-level rise, sediment, sediment transport, sediment transport, time-series datasets, turbidity, water level measurements, water temperature, wave measurements, waves, wetland, Fewer tags

Oceanographic measurements obtained offshore of the Elwha River delta in coordination with the Elwha River Restoration Project, Washington, USA, 2010-2014 (version 1.1, May 2018)

First Release: Aug 2017 Revised: May 2018 (ver. 1.1) Time-series data of velocity, pressure, turbidity, conductivity, and temperature were collected near the mouth of the Elwha River, Washington, USA, from December 2010 through October 2014, for the Department of Interior’s Elwha River Restoration project. As part of this project, the U.S. Geological Survey studied the effects of renewed sediment supplies on the coastal ecosystems before, during, and following the removal of two dams, Elwha and Glines Canyon, from the Elwha River. Removal of the dams reintroduced sediment stored in the reservoirs to the river, and the river moved much of this sediment to the coast. Several benthic tripods were instrumented with...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Citation; Tags: CMGP, CONDUCTIVITY, CTD, CTD measurement, CURRENT METERS, All tags... Clallum County, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Elwha River, Geophysics, Marine Geology, OCEAN CURRENTS, Oceans, PCMSC, PRESSURE SENSORS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Puget Sound, SALINITY, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, State of Washington, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WATER DEPTH, WATER PRESSURE, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE HEIGHT GAUGES, geoscientificInformation, ocean waves, physical oceanography, time series datasets, water level measurements, wave observations, Fewer tags

Time-series oceanographic data from the Monterey Canyon, CA October 2015 - March 2017

Time-series data of water depth, velocity, turbidity, and temperature were acquired between 5 October 2015 and 21 March 2017 within the Monterey Canyon off of Monterey, CA, USA. In order to better understand the triggering, progression and evolution of turbidity currents in Monterey Submarine Canyon, an experiment was designed to directly measure velocity, suspended sediment and physical water properties (temperature, salinity and density) along the canyon axis during an 18-month period. Three moorings in the upper canyon (MS1, MS2, MS3) containing oceanographic instruments and Anderson- type sediment traps were deployed during three consecutive six-month periods (A: October 2015 - April 2016; B: April - October...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMGP, CONDUCTIVITY, CTD, CTD measurement, CURRENT METERS, All tags... Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Geophysics, Monterey Canyon, OCEAN CURRENTS, Oceans, PCMSC, PRESSURE SENSORS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, SALINITY, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, State of California, TIDAL HEIGHT, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, WATER DEPTH, WATER PRESSURE, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE HEIGHT GAUGES, Water Column Features, Water Quality, geoscientificInformation, marine water quality, physical oceanography, time series datasets, water level measurements, wave observations, Fewer tags

Time series data of oceanographic conditions from La Parguera, Puerto Rico, 2017-2018 Coral Reef Circulation and Sediment Dynamics Experiment

Time-series data of water surface elevation, waves, currents, temperature, and salinity collected between 17 May 2017 and 17 Jan 2018 off the southwest coast of Puerto Rico in support of a study on circulation and sediment transport dynamics over coral reefs. The data are available in NetCDF format, grouped together in zip files by instrument site location. A README.txt file details the files contained within each zip, including the file names, type of data collected, instrument that collected the data, depth, and start and end dates/times.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Bahia de Guanica, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Hydrology, All tags... La Parguera, Marine Geology, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Water Column Features, Water Quality, geoscientificInformation, marine water quality, ocean currents, ocean salinity, ocean waves, oceans, physical oceanography, salinity/density, time series datasets, water level measurements, water pressure, water temperature, wave observations, Fewer tags

Salish Sea water level simulation projections: 2016-2099

Simulations of the period 2016-2099 were conducted using the Salish Sea hydrodynamic model to evaluate extreme water levels associated with anticipated changes in sea level and climate forcing. The model projections accounting for sea level position, tides, remote sea-level anomalies, local winds and storm surge and stream flows as they affect water density. Dynamically downscaled Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) CMIP5 GFDL wind and atmospheric pressure fields were prescribed over the model open boundary and used to compute sea-level anomaly prescribed at the model ocean boundary. Simulations were made for eight different Sea-Level Rise (SLR) conditions, 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, and 5 meters relative to...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Climate Change, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Distributions, Extreme Weather, All tags... Hazards Planning, Ocean Winds, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Predictions, Puget Sound, Salish Sea, State of Washington, Storms, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Wind, coastal processes, geoscientificInformation, numerical modeling, oceans, water level measurements, Fewer tags

Time-series data of water surface elevation, waves, currents, temperature, and turbidity collected between November 2017 and March 2018 off the west coast of Maui, Hawaii, USA

Time-series data of water surface elevation, waves, currents, temperature, and turbidity collected between November 2017 and March 2018 off the west coast of Maui, Hawaii, USA. The data are available in NetCDF format, grouped together in zip files by instrument site location. These data support a modeling study on the effects of potential watershed restoration on decreasing sediment loads to adjacent reefs (Storlazzi and others, 2023).

Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Hydrology, Marine Geology, Maui, All tags... PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, State of Hawaii, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Water Column Features, Water Quality, geoscientificInformation, marine water quality, ocean currents, ocean waves, oceans, physical oceanography, time series datasets, water level measurements, water pressure, water temperature, water turbidity, wave observations, Fewer tags

Developing a Stochastic Hydrological Model for Informing Lake Water Level Drawdown Management

This data release consists of four datasets which were used for evaluating winter drawdown (WD) lakes to follow the Massachusetts general WD guidelines. The first dataset ("Water level observations.csv") provides water level monitoring data of 21 (18 WD and 3 non-WD) recreational lakes in Massachusetts from 2014 to 2018. The water levels were measured by paired nonvented pressure transducers (HOBO U20L-01) and processed by ContDataQC package to remove potential inaccurate observations. For better comparison between lakes, the water level was relativized to each lake's normal pool level. This dataset was used for understanding the hydrology of WD and non-WD lakes and validating the hydrological model that we developed...

Categories: Data; Tags: Massachusetts, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environment, hydrology, lake, All tags... natural resource management, water level measurements, Fewer tags

Salish Sea Hydrodynamic Model

A two-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the Salish Sea was constructed using the Delft3D Flexible Mesh Suite (Deltares, 2020) to simulate still water levels in the past and future and evaluate extreme recurrence water level events accounting for sea level rise and climate change. Three sets of model simulations were performed following Grossman and others (2023). The first simulated the water years (October 1 – September 30) of 2017 to 2020 to validate the model and assess model error. The second simulation used the validated model to evaluate the period 1985-2015, the utility of a computed “remote sea level anomaly predictor” important to understanding of extreme water levels inside the Salish Sea, and to quantify...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Climate Change, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Distributions, Extreme Weather, All tags... Hazards Planning, Hydrology, Ocean Winds, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Predictions, Puget Sound, Salish Sea, State of Washington, Storms, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Water Resources, Wind, coastal processes, geoscientificInformation, numerical modeling, oceans, water level measurements, Fewer tags

Water level and velocity measurements from the 2012 University of Western Australia Fringing Reef Experiment (UWAFRE)

This data release contains water level and velocity measurements from wave runup experiments performed in a laboratory flume setting. Wave-driven water level variability (and runup at the shoreline) is a significant cause of coastal flooding induced by storms. Wave runup is challenging to predict, particularly along tropical coral reef-fringed coastlines due to the steep bathymetric profiles and large bottom roughness generated by reef organisms. The 2012 University of Western Australia Fringing Reef Experiment (UWAFRE) measured water levels and velocities for sixteen wave and offshore (still) water level conditions on a 1:36 geometric scale fringing reef profile with and without bottom roughness. Experiments were...

Tags: CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Geophysics, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, coastal processes, coral reefs, flooding, geoscientificInformation, hazards, laboratory experiments, ocean sciences, oceans, reef, scale modeling, water column features, water level measurements, waves, Fewer tags

Near-bed velocity measurements in Monterey Bay during arrival of the 2010 Chile Tsunami

On February 27, 2010, a tsunami originating near Chile arrived in Monterey Bay, California. This data release comprises two hours of pressure and near-bed velocity data spanning the largest tsunami waves. At the time, the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center had a remotely-controlled instrumented platform deployed adjacent to the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf (mean depth 9 m) for collecting hydrodynamic and sediment transport data. In anticipation of the arrival of the tsunami, sampling was changed to better capture the event. Pressure and near-bed velocity profiles were measured at 1 Hz for 25 minutes every half hour. The velocities are influenced by surface waves, tsunami waves, and tidal...

Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Marine Geology, Monterey Bay, PCMSC, All tags... Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, State of California, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Water Column Features, field observation, geoscientificInformation, physical oceanography, time series datasets, tsunamis, water level measurements, Fewer tags