{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "David E Ladd", "hasEmail": "mailto:deladd@usgs.gov"}, "description": "As part of the U.S. Geological Survey Groundwater Resources Program study of \nAppalachian Plateaus aquifers, mean-annual and mean-seasonal water-budget \nestimates for the period 1980 through 2011 were determined  for a 162,000 \nsquare-mile area covering parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, \nWest Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, \nand Mississippi. Mean-annual and mean-seasonal precipitation, recharge, and \nactual evapotranspiration (ET) estimates were derived from annual and monthly \nSoil-Water-Balance (SWB) model (McCoy and others, 2015; Westenbroek \nand others, 2010) output and compiled in a geodatabase. Precipitation estimates \nfrom the Appalachian Plateaus SWB model were derived from daily Daymet \nclimate grids (Thornton and others, 2012). Estimates of recharge from the \nSWB model were calculated using a modified Thornthwaite-Mather soil-water \naccounting method (Thornthwaite and Mather, 1957; Westenbroek and others, \n2010). Estimates of ET from the SWB model were derived by adjusting a \nspatially-variable estimate of potential ET (Hargreaves and Samani, 1985) with \nestimates of precipitation and soil-moisture (Westenbrok and others, 2010). \nThe geodatabase contains polygon and point feature classes representing the \nmodel grid cells and their centers, respectively, and two tables containing \nmean-annual and mean-seasonal estimates for each cell. Mean-annual \nestimates were computed for full calendar years (January through December) \nand are presented in inches per year (in/yr) for the 1980 through 2011 period. \nMean-seasonal estimates for spring (March through May), summer (June \nthrough August) and fall (September through November) are presented in \ninches for the 1980 through 2011 period. Mean-seasonal estimates for \nwinter (December through February), also presented in inches, were \ncalculated for December 1980 through February 2011.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/F7X06544", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.dba98e35-d294-402c-b31e-4ee461bc6dd1.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_dba98e35-d294-402c-b31e-4ee461bc6dd1", "keyword": ["Alabama", "Appalalachian Plateaus", "Georgia", "Kentucky", "Maryland", "Mississippi", "Mississippian aquifer", "New York", "North Carolina", "Ohio", "Pennsylvania", "Pennsylvanian aquifer", "Permian aquifer", "Soil-Water-Balance model", "Tennessee", "USGS:dba98e35-d294-402c-b31e-4ee461bc6dd1", "Virginia", "West Virginia", "aquifer", "environment", "evapotranspiration", "geoscientificInformation", "groundwater", "hydrologic budget", "inlandWaters", "precipitation", "recharge"], "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-88.992632, 31.180164, -75.057322, 43.797973", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Mean-annual and mean-seasonal water-budget estimates from a Soil-Water-Balance model of the Appalachian Plateaus, 1980 through 2011"}