{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Jared J. Trost", "hasEmail": "mailto:jtrost@usgs.gov"}, "description": "A three-dimensional, steady-state groundwater-flow model representing 2003-13 \nmean hydrologic conditions was developed and calibrated to assess groundwater \nand lake-water exchanges and the effects of groundwater withdrawals and \nprecipitation on water levels in lakes in the northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan \nArea, Minnesota.  The USGS groundwater-flow model program MODFLOW-NWT\nversion 1.0.8 was used to simulate groundwater flow in the approximately \n1,000-square-mile area of the northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area and \nwestern Wisconsin. Water levels were below normal for several lakes in the \nnortheast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area during 2003 through 2013. Previous \nperiods of low lake-water levels generally correlate with periods of below-normal \nprecipitation but increases in groundwater withdrawals and land-use changes \nhave put into question whether recent lake-water-level declines are due solely \nto declines in precipitation. The groundwater-flow model was developed to \nprovide a thorough understanding of regional groundwater and surface-water \nexchanges under different groundwater withdrawal and precipitation scenarios.  \nThis USGS data release contains all of the input and output files for the \nsimulations described in the associated U.S. Geological Survey Scientific \nInvestigations Report 2016-5139B (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165139B).  \nThis data release also contains input and output data for ancillary soil-water \nbalance (SWB) models used to simulate runoff to a subset of lakes and \nareal groundwater recharge.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/F7445JRM", "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.5d6d0951-1929-48ac-97f4-fdd875fb7029.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_5d6d0951-1929-48ac-97f4-fdd875fb7029", "keyword": ["Anoka County", "Chisago County", "Dakota County", "Groundwater", "Groundwater Model", "Hennepin County", "InlandWaters", "Jordan aquifer", "MODFLOW-NWT", "Minnesota", "Prairie du Chien aquifer", "Ramsey County", "St. Peter aquifer", "USGS:5d6d0951-1929-48ac-97f4-fdd875fb7029", "Washington County", "White Bear Lake", "Wisconsin", "aquifer storage", "environment", "geoscientificInformation", "groundwater availability", "groundwater depletion", "inlandWaters", "northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area", "usgsgroundwatermodel"], "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-93.346355, 44.733244, -92.656837, 45.363888", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "MODFLOW-NWT model used to simulate and assess groundwater flow and surface-water exchanges in lakes of the Northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, Minnesota, 2003 through 2013"}