Prioritizing river basins for intensive monitoring and assessment by the US Geological Survey
| Autor: | Anthony J. Tesoriero, MaryLynn Musgrove, Michael N. Fienen, David Lesmes, Jaime A. Painter, Cheryl A. Dieter, Christopher Allen Mason, Donald O. Rosenberry, Peter C. Van Metre, Sharon L. Qi, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Patrick M. Lambert, Jeffrey R. Deacon, David M. Wolock, Jessica M. Driscoll, Anke Mueller-Solger, Terry A. Kenney, Lori A. Sprague |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Resource (biology)
Drainage basin Management Monitoring Policy and Law Structural basin Article Rivers Streamflow Surveys and Questionnaires Monitoring design Water cycle Ecosystem General Environmental Science geography geography.geographical_feature_category Land use business.industry Environmental resource management Federal research General Medicine Pollution Water resources Basin selection Geological survey Environmental science Hydrology business Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment |
| ISSN: | 1573-2959 |
| Popis: | The US Geological Survey (USGS) is currently (2020) integrating its water science programs to better address the nation’s greatest water resource challenges now and into the future. This integration will rely, in part, on data from 10 or more intensively monitored river basins from across the USA. A team of USGS scientists was convened to develop a systematic, quantitative approach to prioritize candidate basins for this monitoring investment to ensure that, as a group, the 10 basins will support the assessment and forecasting objectives of the major USGS water science programs. Candidate basins were the level-4 hydrologic units (HUC04) with some of the smaller HUC04s being combined; median candidate-basin area is 46,600 km2. Candidate basins for the contiguous United States (CONUS) were grouped into 18 hydrologic regions. Ten geospatial variables representing land use, climate change, water use, water-balance components, streamflow alteration, fire risk, and ecosystem sensitivity were selected to rank candidate basins within each of the 18 hydrologic regions. The two highest ranking candidate basins in each of the 18 regions were identified as finalists for selection as “Integrated Water Science Basins”; final selection will consider input from a variety of stakeholders. The regional framework, with only one basin selected per region, ensures that as a group, the basins represent the range in major drivers of the hydrologic cycle. Ranking within each region, primarily based on anthropogenic stressors of water resources, ensures that settings representing important water-resource challenges for the nation will be studied. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10661-020-08403-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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