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Resource Abstract:
- description: This data set represents the average monthly maximum temperature in Celsius multiplied by 100 for 2002 compiled
for every catchment of NHDPlus for the conterminous United States. The source data were the Near-Real-Time High-Resolution
Monthly Average Maximum/Minimum Temperature for the Conterminous United States for 2002 raster dataset produced by the Spatial
Climate Analysis Service at Oregon State University. The NHDPlus Version 1.1 is an integrated suite of application-ready geospatial
datasets that incorporates many of the best features of the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and the National Elevation
Dataset (NED). The NHDPlus includes a stream network (based on the 1:100,00-scale NHD), improved networking, naming, and value-added
attributes (VAAs). NHDPlus also includes elevation-derived catchments (drainage areas) produced using a drainage enforcement
technique first widely used in New England, and thus referred to as "the New England Method." This technique involves
"burning in" the 1:100,000-scale NHD and when available building "walls" using the National Watershed
Boundary Dataset (WBD). The resulting modified digital elevation model (HydroDEM) is used to produce hydrologic derivatives
that agree with the NHD and WBD. Over the past two years, an interdisciplinary team from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and contractors, found that this method produces the best quality NHD
catchments using an automated process (USEPA, 2007). The NHDPlus dataset is organized by 18 Production Units that cover the
conterminous United States. The NHDPlus version 1.1 data are grouped by the U.S. Geologic Survey's Major River Basins
(MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006). MRB1, covering the New England and Mid-Atlantic River basins, contains NHDPlus Production
Units 1 and 2. MRB2, covering the South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 3 and
6. MRB3, covering the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy River basins, contains NHDPlus Production
Units 4, 5, 7 and 9. MRB4, covering the Missouri River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 10-lower and 10-upper. MRB5,
covering the Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 8, 11 and
12. MRB6, covering the Rio Grande, Colorado and Great Basin River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 13, 14, 15 and
16. MRB7, covering the Pacific Northwest River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 17. MRB8, covering California River
basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 18.; abstract: This data set represents the average monthly maximum temperature in
Celsius multiplied by 100 for 2002 compiled for every catchment of NHDPlus for the conterminous United States. The source
data were the Near-Real-Time High-Resolution Monthly Average Maximum/Minimum Temperature for the Conterminous United States
for 2002 raster dataset produced by the Spatial Climate Analysis Service at Oregon State University. The NHDPlus Version 1.1
is an integrated suite of application-ready geospatial datasets that incorporates many of the best features of the National
Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and the National Elevation Dataset (NED). The NHDPlus includes a stream network (based on the 1:100,00-scale
NHD), improved networking, naming, and value-added attributes (VAAs). NHDPlus also includes elevation-derived catchments (drainage
areas) produced using a drainage enforcement technique first widely used in New England, and thus referred to as "the
New England Method." This technique involves "burning in" the 1:100,000-scale NHD and when available building
"walls" using the National Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). The resulting modified digital elevation model (HydroDEM)
is used to produce hydrologic derivatives that agree with the NHD and WBD. Over the past two years, an interdisciplinary team
from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and contractors, found that
this method produces the best quality NHD catchments using an automated process (USEPA, 2007). The NHDPlus dataset is organized
by 18 Production Units that cover the conterminous United States. The NHDPlus version 1.1 data are grouped by the U.S. Geologic
Survey's Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006). MRB1, covering the New England and Mid-Atlantic River
basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 1 and 2. MRB2, covering the South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee River basins, contains
NHDPlus Production Units 3 and 6. MRB3, covering the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy River basins,
contains NHDPlus Production Units 4, 5, 7 and 9. MRB4, covering the Missouri River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units
10-lower and 10-upper. MRB5, covering the Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf River basins, contains NHDPlus
Production Units 8, 11 and 12. MRB6, covering the Rio Grande, Colorado and Great Basin River basins, contains NHDPlus Production
Units 13, 14, 15 and 16. MRB7, covering the Pacific Northwest River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 17. MRB8, covering
California River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 18.
Citation
- Title Attributes for NHDPlus Catchments (Version 1.1) for the Conterminous United States: Average Annual Daily Maximum Temperature,
2002.
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- creation Date
2018-05-21T12:27:02.174135
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on a transform by Damian Ulbricht. Run on 2018-08-06T23:50:11Z
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