Data

This Data Release contains four child items that represent sequential data processing and modeling steps. {Child Item 1} Data Preparation contains data inputs and processing steps for select sites in the Delaware and Illinois River Basins (DRB/IRB). This child item includes five sub folders: site info, streamflow and turbidity time-series, climatological information, basin shape...

This data release contains a registry and comparison of the representation of twelve-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) hydrologic unit polygons from four snapshot versions of the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). The four versions were chosen due to their pressence in broadly: National Hydrologic Dataset Plus V2.1 (nhdpv2) and National Hydrologic Dataset Plus High Resolution (nhdphr)...

These data files have information for hydrologic features contained in the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) feature datasets. The datasets include information about the 12-digit HUC polygons for the USGS Regional Integrated Methods for Base Evaluation (RIMBE) of five Integrated Water Science (IWS) study areas: Delaware River Basin (DRB), Illinois River Basin (IRB), Trinity-San Jacinto...

This data release provides a Compilation of Images from River Reaches across the United States (CIRRUS). These images were retrieved programmatically using the Google Maps Application Programming Interface (API). The data set consists of a total of 281,024 individual images from rivers throughout the contiguous U.S. and Alaska, with an emphasis on locations likely to have rapids. For the...

Land applied waste byproducts were collected by USGS from 34 sites across the United States. Materials included waste byproducts from treatment of municipal sewage (biosolids), production of food (bovine, poultry, and swine wastes), and drilling of oil and gas wells (spent oil- and water-based drilling fluids). The samples represent 10 municipal wastewater treatment plants, 11 animal...

In the United States, the widespread use of pesticides has led to contamination of groundwater resources. Three decades ago, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) established a national water quality monitoring network for groundwater (NWQN-GW). This network provides an overview of groundwater conditions across a wide range of hydrogeologic settings and capture the impacts of pesticide use...

This data release provides R scripts for estimating future stream water quality using Weighted Discharge on Time Discharge and Season for Projection (WRTDS-P). The technique is tested against hold-out data and is applied to four drought scenarios in the Delaware River Basin (DRB). The scripts retrieve WRTDS models from an existing data release for 39 sites in the DRB with observations...

This data release contains input data used to test multi-scale modeling approaches for predicting water temperature in streams and rivers. The target application aims to predict stream temperature at relatively fine spatial resolution across a river basin by combining a machine learning (ML) model (optionally, with additional input data) configured at a relatively coarse spatial...

Globally, lakes are losing ice cover, but our understanding of the rates and variability of change are biased towards few lakes with long-term records. Recent works have used remote sensing and predictive modeling to supplement the observational record, but these approaches produce large errors when estimating ice phenology for individual lakes. Our associated manuscript explores machine...

Evaluating Decadal Changes in Groundwater Quality: Groundwater-quality data were collected from 5,000 wells between 1988-2001 (first decadal sampling event) by the National Water-Quality Assessment Project. Samples are collected in groups of 20-30 wells with similar characteristics called networks. About 1,500 of these wells in 67 networks were sampled again approximately 10 years later...

This data release provides field measurements of water depth and aerial and satellite images from the Mulchatna River in Alaska. These data were used to assess the feasibility of mapping the bathymetry of this remote, proglacial river, located in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, using several depth retrieval algorithms. This approach could facilitate geomorphic and habitat...

This dataset contains satellite-derived information on lake elevations for selected glacial dammed lakes (GDLs) monitored by the National Weather Service Alaska-Pacific River Forecasting Center in Anchorage, Alaska, as well as several Alaska lakes collocated with monitoring gages. The lake elevation data are derived from satellite-observed water surface elevations from the Surface Water...