MODFLOW 6 models used to simulate the long-term average surficial groundwater system for the contiguous United States
Description
Seventy-five steady-state two-dimensional groundwater flow (MODFLOW-6) models
of the shallow groundwater system were developed to map depth to water and
estimate effective surficial transmissivity for the contiguous United States (CONUS).
The models were driven by spatially-distributed recharge estimated by Reitz et al.
(https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PN93P0) using average water-budget information for
1985-2015 and calibrated against long-term average water levels in observation wells,
as well as, water-level estimates derived from perennial first-order streams and
wetlands. The development of the model input and output files included in this data
release, as well as post-processing used to derive additional water-budget
components also included in this data release, are documented in the Water
Resources Research article (https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026724).
Resources
| Name |
Format |
Description |
Link |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P91LFFN1 |
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55 |
The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.b6980ed9-1558-47e3-a3d7-1b945a9681e3.xml |
Tags
- environment
- groundwater
- modflow-6
- united-states
- usgsgroundwatermodel
- geoscientificinformation
- usgs-b6980ed9-1558-47e3-a3d7-1b945a9681e3
- inlandwaters
- groundwater-model
- conus