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Data and Code to Generate Custom Climate Reports for National Forests in the Southwestern United States
This project creates a two-page monthly PDF climate report for forests within Region 3 of the United States Forest Service (USFS). Using geospatial polygon information, these reports summarize and visualize climate statistics for both the Forest- and Ranger District- boundaries. Users can select a Forest of interest and define custom season lengths that better align with local precipitation distribution and management schedules. By leveraging publicly available, open source climate data and a series of R-programming scripts, the project creates a decision support tool that presents timely seasonal climate information to range managers. This project was developed in conjunction with members of the USFS and is designed to aid range managers with stewardship of their land.
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Complete Metadata
| accessLevel | public |
|---|---|
| bureauCode |
[ "010:12" ] |
| contactPoint |
{ "fn": "Climate Adaptation Science Center", "@type": "vcard:Contact", "hasEmail": "mailto:casc-data@usgs.gov" } |
| description | This project creates a two-page monthly PDF climate report for forests within Region 3 of the United States Forest Service (USFS). Using geospatial polygon information, these reports summarize and visualize climate statistics for both the Forest- and Ranger District- boundaries. Users can select a Forest of interest and define custom season lengths that better align with local precipitation distribution and management schedules. By leveraging publicly available, open source climate data and a series of R-programming scripts, the project creates a decision support tool that presents timely seasonal climate information to range managers. This project was developed in conjunction with members of the USFS and is designed to aid range managers with stewardship of their land. |
| distribution |
[ { "@type": "dcat:Distribution", "title": "Digital Data", "format": "XML", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.21429/a5fr-7e59", "mediaType": "application/http", "description": "Landing page for access to the data" }, { "@type": "dcat:Distribution", "title": "Original Metadata", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.08da7432-0331-400f-9a11-3e2ae1f5ee9c.xml" } ] |
| identifier | http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_08da7432-0331-400f-9a11-3e2ae1f5ee9c |
| keyword |
[ "Arizona", "New Mexico", "USGS:08da7432-0331-400f-9a11-3e2ae1f5ee9c", "climate change", "environment", "external research support", "forests", "geospatial", "southwest", "southwestern region" ] |
| modified | 2026-09-02T00:00:00Z |
| publisher |
{ "name": "U.S. Geological Survey", "@type": "org:Organization" } |
| spatial | -115.1367, 31.2410, -102.0000, 37.1603 |
| theme |
[ "geospatial" ] |
| title | Data and Code to Generate Custom Climate Reports for National Forests in the Southwestern United States |
