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Specific yield, High Plains aquifer

Dates

Release Date
2012-01-01
Publication Date

Citation

McGuire, V., Lund, K., and Densmore, B., 2012, Specific yield, High Plains aquifer: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XWB5JH.

Summary

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This raster data set represents specific-yield ranges in the High Plains aquifer of the United States. The High Plains aquifer underlies 112.6 million acres (176,000 square miles) in parts of eight States: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. Specific yield ranges from near zero to 30 percent (Gutentag and others, 1984). This data set was generated in ESRI ArcInfo Workstation Version 9.3, which is a geographic [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Virginia L. McGuire, U.S. Geological Survey
Originator :
V.L. McGuire, K.D. Lund, B.K. Densmore
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Nebraska Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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sir12-5177_hp_sp_yield.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		18.22 KB application/fgdc+xml
hp_sp_yield.zip 225.72 KB application/zip
hp_sp_yielda.zip 209.26 KB application/zip
hp_sp_yield.jpg thumbnail 717.78 KB image/jpeg

Purpose

This data set was created to provide a raster of the average specific yield in each of the specific-yield ranges for the High Plains aquifer and to make available the data on this map for use with a GIS. Specific yield is used to calculate drainable water in storage in the High Plains aquifer from applicable water-level change and saturated-thickness data. This data set was generated at the request of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency.
Illustration of the dataset.
Illustration of the dataset.

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Provenance

These data were originally released on the Water Mission Area National Spatial Data Infrastructure Node and were migrated to sciencebase.gov in 2023. These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS's policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9XWB5JH

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