U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
2005
MODNRMissouri Department of Natural Resources
MO 2005 Major Lakes (SHP)
1.0
vector digital data
MAJOR_LAKES
ftp://msdis.missouri.edu/pub/Inland_Water_Resources/MO_2005_Major_Lakes_shp.zip
The NHDPlus Version 1.0 is an integrated suite of application-ready geospatial data sets that incorporate 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 1:100,000-scale NHD), improved networking, naming, and "value-added attributes" (VAA's). NHDPlus also includes elevation-derived catchments (drainage areas) produced using a drainage enforcement technique first broadly applied in New England, and thus dubbed "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. An interdisciplinary team from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and contractors, over the last two years has found this method to produce the best quality NHD catchments using an automated process.
The VAAs include greatly enhanced capabilities for upstream and downstream navigation, analysis and modeling. Examples include: retrieve all flowlines (predominantly confluence-to-confluence stream segments) and catchments upstream of a given flowline using queries rather than by slower flowline-by-flowline navigation; retrieve flowlines by stream order; subset a stream level path sorted in hydrologic order for stream profile mapping, analysis and plotting; and, calculate cumulative catchment attributes using streamlined VAA hydrologic sequencing routing attributes.
The VAAs include results from the use of these cumulative routing techniques, including cumulative drainage areas, precipitation, temperature, and land cover distributions. Several of these cumulative attributes are used to estimate mean annual flow and velocity as part of the VAAs.
NHDPlus contains a snapshot (2005) of the 1:100,000-scale NHD that has been extensively improved. While these updates will eventually make their way back to the central NHD repository at USGS, this will not have happened prior to distribution of NHDPlus because the update process for the central NHD repository is still in development. Consequently, the NHDPlus will contain some temporary database keys and, as a result, NHDPlus users may not make updates to the NHD portions of NHDPlus with the intent of sending these updates back to the USGS. Once the NHDPlus updates have been posted to the central NHD repository, a fresh copy of the improved data can be downloaded from the central NHD repository and that copy will be usable for data maintenance. Note that the NHDPlus products are tightly integrated and user modifications to the underlying NHD can compromise this synchronization.
The geospatial data sets included in NHDPlus are intended to support a variety of water-related applications. They already have been used in an application to develop estimates of mean annual streamflow and velocity for each NHD flowline in the conterminous United States. The results of these analyses are included with the NHDPlus data.
A water-quality model developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) called SPARROW (Spatially Referenced Regressions on Watershed Attributes), can utilize the NHDPlus network functionality to track the downstream transport of nutrients, sediments, or other substances. NHDPlus water bodies and estimates of streamflow and velocity are used in SPARROW to identify reservoir retention and in-stream loss factors. NHDPlus climatic and land surface attributes can be used in SPARROW to identify potential factors in the delivery of nutrients from the land surface to streams. NHDPlus land cover information is useful for SPARROW in determining potential sources of nutrients.
NHDPlus data is also being used in select areas for a USGS Web-based application, called StreamStats. StreamStats provides tools to interactively select any point on the NHDPlus to obtain streamflow and watershed characteristics for the selected point.
NHDPlus has been designed to accommodate many users needs for future applications. NHDPlus provides the framework and tools necessary to customize the behavior of the network relationships as well as building upon the attribute database, for which the user can assign its own data to the network.
For more information, refer to the NHDPlus Users Guide.
The metadata content associated with this data set was reviewed by Ron Curry on 20110317. The metadata content review is intended to ensure that all of the required content is present. The components comprising the metadata document were reviewed by Ron Curry on 20110317. The metadata component review is intended to ensure that required metadata components are consistent and understandable to data consumers. Several issues identified during the review have not been addressed since the metadata were primarily compiled by federal agencies.
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Stream / River
segment
Lake / Pond
lake
Canal / Ditch
Reservoir
Spring / Seep
Swamp / Marsh
Artificial Path
Reach
buildings
structure
structures
Watershed
Catchment
EARTH SCIENCE
Land Surface
LandS
Topography
Cartography
GEODATA
GIS
USGS
EPA
Elevation
Elevations
Land Cover
National Land Cover Dataset
NLCD
National Elevation Dataset
NED
National Hydrography Dataset
NHD
NHDPlus
Stream flow
Streams
inlandWaters
area
Stream velocity
Spatially Referenced Regressions on Watershed Attributes
SPARROW
StreamStats
Water-quality
Hydrologic modeling
River Coding Systems
Hydrography
surveys
ISO 19115 Topic Category
inlandWaters
United States of America
United States
USA
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
None.
None.
Acknowledgement of the originating agencies (USEPA and USGS) would be appreciated in products derived from these data.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
waters_support@epa.gov
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000
Shapefile
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
none
National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Medium Resolution
none
vector digital data
http://nhd.usgs.gov
1:100,000
2005
The source NHD is a snapshot of the dataset accessed on 1/31/2004 and updated throughout 2004 and 2005.
NHD
A snapshot of the NHD was used as the baseline framework from which enhancements to the network were built upon. Enhancements include feature names, network connectivity and network flow relationships. This enhanced NHD version was then used in conjunction with the NED, and WBD (where applicable) to create a HydroDEM, for generation of the catchment Grid/shapefile, and flow direction/accumulation Grids. The enhanced NHD was used to compute and assign flowline Value Added Attributes (VAAs) to this network.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), EROS Data Center
1999
National Elevation Dataset (NED)
raster digital data
Sioux Falls, SD
U.S. Geological Survey
http://ned.usgs.gov/
June 10, 2004
Date data was accessed
NED
NED data used in combination with NHD, WBD (where applicable) to create a HydroDEM, to generate NHDPlus Catchments, surface flow direction and accumulation Grids. Stream elevations from NED which were used to help derive stream slope and stream velocity.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
19990525
National Land Cover Dataset 1992 (NLCD 1992)
1
raster digital data
Sioux Falls, SD
U.S. Geological Survey
http://landcover.usgs.gov/natllandcover.php
early 1990's
mid 1990's
ground condition
NLCD 1992
Source dataset used to assign catchment and flowline land cover attributes.
Chris Daly and George Taylor of the Spatial Climate Analysis Service at Oregon State University.
200008
United States Average Annual Precipitation, 1961-90
raster digital data
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Spatial Climate Analysis Service at Oregon State University (SCAS/OSU)
This dataset from the PRISM model, developed by Chris Daly of SCAS/OSU.
http://www.ocs.orst.edu/prism/
19610101
19901231
Climatological period from which the point observations were taken.
Source dataset used to compute mean annual precipitation for each catchment and area weighted precipitation for each flowline. Weighted precipitation values for each flowline was used as a variable in a Vogel equation for estimating mean annual streamflow. The Vogel estimates of mean annual flow were used as a source variable in a Jobson equation to compute mean annual stream velocity estimates.
Chris Daly and George Taylor of the Spatial Climate Analysis Service at Oregon State University.
200008
United States Annual Mean Temperature, 1961-90
1
raster digital data
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Spatial Climate Analysis Service at Oregon State University (SCAS/OSU)
This dataset from the PRISM model, developed by Chris Daly of SCAS/OSU.
http://www.ocs.orst.edu/prism/
19610101
19901231
Climatological period from which the point observations were taken.
Source dataset used to compute mean annual temperature for each catchment and area weighted mean annual temperature for each flowline. Weighted mean annual temperature values for each flowline was used as a variable in a Vogel equation for estimating mean annual streamflow. The Vogel estimates of mean annual flow were used as a source variable in a Jobson equation to compute mean annual stream velocity estimates.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
multiple dates
Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)
vector digital data
Only certified WBD was included for use in HydroDEM production. These data are tiled by U.S. State, therefore only selected states with full certification were used. The publication date for each state's WBD varies. (See Source Time Period of Content)
http://www.ncgc.nrcs.usda.gov/products/datasets/watershed/
1:24,000
Alabama, 2004
Connecticut, 2001
Georgia, 2003
Illinois, 2002
Massachusetts, 2001
Maryland, 2003
New Hampshire, 2001
Utah, 2003
Vermont, 2003
Wyoming, 2002
publication dates
WBD
12-digit subwatershed divides from the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)
were used (for states where certified WBD was available) as a ridgeline
enforcement factor in a process called "walling" in the production of HydroDEMs. The HydroDEMs are the source data from which NHD Catchments are delineated from. Catchments with coincident boundaries with the WBD are in conformance with the WBD. NHDPlus Flow Direction and Accumulation Grids are hydrologic derivative products of the HydroDEMs.
David W. Stewart, Alan Rea and David M. Wolock
April 2006
USGS Streamgages Linked to the Medium Resolution NHD
vector digital data
Data Series
DS-195
Reston, Va
U.S. Geological Survey
http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/streamgages.xml
April 20, 2004
Date of data extract from NWIS
Location of gages were spatially referenced to the NHDPlus flowlines to create a gaging station point event table, where for each gage in the database, the corresponding NHD Reachcode and measure are recorded. An early version of the dataset was also used for the QA/QC of NHDPlus cumulative drainage areas and estimates of mean annual stream flow.
20110228P. O. Box 176mailing and physical address301 West High StreetJefferson CityMissouri65102-0176United StatesMichael HillMissouri Office of Administration, Information Technology Services DivisionGeographic Information Systems Specialist(573) 522-8378800-735-2966(573) 526-1421michael.hill@oa.mo.govMonday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central timeDownloaded NHDPlus shapefiles, tables, and data extension tables for NHD regions 07, 08, 10 (lower half), and 11. The regional NHD Waterbody shapefiles were then combined into a single shapefile and then intersected with the WBD_8 data set to select only those waterbodies that are located within the watersheds that intersect the state of Missouri. The resulting selection set was then exported to a new WATERBODY shapefile. A definition query was then applied to select only those waterbodies that were greater than or equal to 50 acres (AREASQKM >= 0.202) in extent and exported this selection set to the final MAJOR_LAKES shapefile.
Although all data in this data set have been modified by the Missouri Office of Administration, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the Office in the use of these data or related materials.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
waters_support@epa.gov
Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Government, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Government as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Government in the use of this data, software, or
related materials.
Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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