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Discharge areas for the transient ground-water flow model, Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

Dates

Release Date
2006-01-01
Publication Date

Citation

Faunt, C.C., 2006, Discharge areas for the transient ground-water flow model, Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TKW590.

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 digital data set represents discharge areas in the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS) transient model. Natural ground-water discharge occurs by way of evapotranspiration (ET) and spring flow in the DVRFS model domain, an approximately 45,000 square-kilometer region of southern Nevada and California. Ground water is simulated as discharging from a drain boundary (cell) when the simulated head in the cell rises above a specified [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey, Claudia Faunt
Originator :
Faunt, Claudia C.
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
California Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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pp1711_drains.xml
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drains.zip 1.03 MB application/zip
sir045205_drains.jpg thumbnail 295.26 KB image/jpeg

Purpose

Cells simulating discharge from ET and spring flow through drain boundaries were used as input to MODFLOW-2000, the USGS 3D finite-difference code used to simulate ground-water flow in the DVRFS. Average annual values of ET and spring discharge were also used to develop drain observations for calibrating the DVRFS transient ground-water flow model.
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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/P9TKW590

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