{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Claudia C. Faunt", "hasEmail": "mailto:ccfaunt@usgs.gov"}, "description": "This digital dataset defines the spring 1961 water-table altitude for the California's Central \nValley.  It was used to initiate the water-level altitudes for the upper zones of the transient hydrologic model of \nthe Central Valley flow system. The Central Valley encompasses an approximate 50,000 square-kilometer \nregion of California. The complex hydrologic system of the Central Valley is simulated using the USGS \nnumerical modeling code MODFLOW-FMP (Schmid and others, 2009).  This simulation is referred to here as \nthe Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM) (Faunt, 2009). Utilizing MODFLOW-FMP, the CVHM simulates \ngroundwater and surface-water flow, irrigated agriculture, land subsidence, and other key processes in the \nCentral Valley on a monthly basis from 1961-2003.  The starting heads are based on the water-table and \npotentiometric surface developed by Williamson and others (1989). Maps of the spring 1961 water-table and \nhydraulic head in the lower pumped zone are shown in Figure 31 of Williamson and others (1989). The CVHM \nis the most recent regional-scale model of the Central Valley developed by the U.S. Geological Survey \n(USGS).The CVHM was developed as part of the USGS Groundwater Resources Program (Faunt, 2009.  See \n\"Foreword\", Chapter A, page iii, for details).", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FFTJ4Y", "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.c6ec4532-61b9-44b9-b672-3d71d8cedde2.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_c6ec4532-61b9-44b9-b672-3d71d8cedde2", "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", "Flow Model CVHM", "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", "Texture Model", "Trinity County", "Tulare County", "Tuolumne County", "USGS:c6ec4532-61b9-44b9-b672-3d71d8cedde2", "Ventura County", "Yolo County", "Yuba County", "discretization", "geoscientificinformation", "groundwater", "hydrogeology", "hydrology", "inlandWaters", "model", "water table"], "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-122.549364, 34.961280, -118.695195, 40.326483", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Spring 1961 water table of California's Central Valley (from Williamson and others, 1989)"}