{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Claudia C. Faunt", "hasEmail": "mailto:ccfaunt@usgs.gov"}, "description": "This digital dataset contains the monthly precipitation for the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM).  \nThe Central Valley encompasses an approximate 50,000 square-kilometer region of California. The \ncomplex hydrologic system of the Central Valley is simulated using the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) \nnumerical modeling code MODFLOW-FMP (Schmid and others, 2006).  This simulation is referred to \nhere as the CVHM (Faunt, 2009).  Utilizing MODFLOW-FMP, the CVHM simulates groundwater and \nsurface-water flow, irrigated agriculture, land subsidence, and other key processes in the Central Valley \non a monthly basis from 1961-2003.  The total active modeled area is 20,334 square-miles on a finite-\ndifference grid comprising 441 rows and 98 columns. Slightly less than 50 percent of the cells are active. \nThe CVHM model grid has a uniform horizontal discretization of 1x1 square mile and is oriented parallel \nto the valley axis, 34 degrees west of north (Faunt, 2009). The main climatic contributors to the CVHM \nare reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and precipitation. Parameter-Elevation Regressions on Independent \nSlopes Model (PRISM) data (Climate Source, 2006) provide the temperature and precipitation on a monthly \nbasis for a 2-kilometer grid.  The precipitation data were interpolated from the prism grid onto the CVHM \none-square-mile grid. The CVHM is the most recent regional-scale model of the Central Valley developed \nby the USGS.  The CVHM was developed as part of the USGS Groundwater Resources Program (see \n\"Foreword\", Chapter A, page iii, for details).", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H91HVX", "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.c50b1649-a8e9-404e-9506-93ac5b625797.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_c50b1649-a8e9-404e-9506-93ac5b625797", "keyword": ["Alameda County", "Amador County", "Butte County", "CV-RASA", "Calaveras County", "California", "Central Valley", "Central Valley Aquifer", "Central Valley Hydrologic Model", "Central Valley, California", "Colusa County", "Contra Costa County", "El Dorado County", "Fresno County", "Glenn County", "Groundwater Availability of the Central Valley Aquifer", "Humboldt County", "Kern County", "Kings County", "Lake County", "Madera County", "Mariposa County", "Mendocino County", "Merced County", "Monterey County", "Napa County", "Nevada County", "Placer County", "Sacramento County", "Sacramento Valley", "San Benito County", "San Joaquin County", "San Joaquin Valley", "San Luis Obispo County", "Santa Barbara County", "Santa Clara County", "Shasta County", "Solano County", "Sonoma County", "Stanislaus County", "Sutter County", "Tehama County", "Trinity County", "Tulare County", "Tuolumne County", "USGS:c50b1649-a8e9-404e-9506-93ac5b625797", "Ventura County", "Yolo County", "Yuba County", "boundary", "environment", "evapotranspiration", "finite-difference model grid", "geoscientificInformation", "grid", "groundwater", "hydrogeology", "hydrology", "inlandWaters"], "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-123.831528, 34.519871, -117.916328, 40.748631", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Monthly Precipitation Input Data for the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM)"}