Tidal Wetlands Soil Organic Carbon and Estuarine Characteristics, USA, 1972-2015

Description

This dataset provides a synthesis of soil organic carbon (SOC) estimates and a variety of other environmental information from tidal wetlands within estuaries in the conterminous United States for the period 1972-2015. The data were compiled from several existing data resources and include the following: soil organic carbon stock estimates, the proportion of the catchment area containing the wetlands that is barren, tidal wetland area, nontidal wetland land, open water, saltwater zone, mixed zone, agricultural, urban, forest, and wetland areas, land elevation, ocean salinity, sea surface temperature, ocean dissolved inorganic phosphorus, estuary latitude, longitude, depth, perimeter, salinity, and estuary volume, river flow, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus river flux, sediment organic carbon content, windspeed, mean temperature, daily and mean precipitation, frost days, and the population within each catchment. Estuaries were also classified to one of six typological categories. Coastal locations were determined by natural environmental and political divisions within the US. The data were used to investigate how tidal wetland soil organic carbon density is distributed across the continental US among various coastal locations, estuarine typologies, vegetation types, water regimes, and management regimes, and to identify whether SOC density is correlated with different environmental variables. The analytical results are not included with this dataset.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1742
34 Estuaries were assigned to one of six estuarine typological classes in the study: former river valley primary estuary, former glacier valley primary estuary, river delta primary estuary, tectonic structural primary estuary, coastal lagoon secondary estuary, and unclassified estuary (Hinson et al., 2019). https://daac.ornl.gov/NACP/guides/Tidal_Wetland_Estuaries_Data_fig1.png
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1742
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/NACP/guides/Tidal_Wetland_Estuaries_Data.html
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/nacp/Tidal_Wetland_Estuaries_Data/
33 NACP: Tidal Wetlands, Soil Carbon, Catchments, Ocean and River Fluxes, US, 1972-2015: Tidal_Wetland_Estuaries_Data.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/nacp/Tidal_Wetland_Estuaries_Data/comp/Tidal_Wetland_Estuaries_Data.pdf

Tags

  • salinity-density
  • coastal-processes
  • ecosystems
  • soils
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • surface-water
  • oceans
  • terrestrial-hydrosphere
  • ocean-temperature
  • earth-science

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