Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Bedrock Permeability Classes

Description

This tabular data set represents bedrock permeability classes compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID. The source data for the bedrock permeability classes in the Principal Aquifer dataset produced by the U.S. Geological Survey, 2003. Units are percent of catchment covered by each class. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions. Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7765D7V
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.57867c33e4b0e02680c14fff.xml

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  • bedrock-permeability
  • inlandwaters
  • nhdplus
  • nawqa
  • sparrow
  • catchment
  • usgs-57867c33e4b0e02680c14fff

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