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Projected water table depths along the Virginia, Georgia, and Florida coasts
To predict water table depths, seamless groundwater heads for unconfined coastal Virginia, Georgia, and Florida (Atlantic and Gulf coast south of Sarasota) groundwater systems were modeled with homogeneous, steady-state MODFLOW simulations. The geographic extent examined was limited primarily to low-elevation (land surface less than approximately 10 m above mean sea level) areas. Steady-state MODFLOW groundwater flow models were used to obtain detailed (50-meter-scale) predictions over large geographic scales (100s of kilometers) of groundwater heads for both current and future sea-level rise (SLR) scenarios (0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3 m) using 3 spatially varying hydraulic conductivities (K); one based on published K's, one with published K's reduced by a factor of 10 (K*0.1), and one with published K's increased by a factor of 10 (K*10) to assess the sensitivity of model results to K. All models had variable thicknesses corresponding to published transmissivities. The models were run with a local mean higher-high water (MHHW) marine boundary condition, and with groundwater reaching the land surface removed from the model, simulating loss via natural drainage. Modeled groundwater heads were then subtracted from high-resolution topographic digital elevation model (DEM) data to obtain the water table depths. Similar modeled data for North Carolina and South Carolina are available from Barnard and others, 2023, at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W91314.
| Author(s) |
Patrick Barnard |
| Publication Date | 2023-03-15 |
| Beginning Date of Data | 2001 |
| Ending Date of Data | 2023 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BQQTCI |
| Citation | Barnard, P., Befus, K.M., Engelstad, A.C., Erikson, L., Foxgrover, A., Hayden, M.K., Hoover, D.J., Leijnse, T., Massey, C., McCall, R., Nadal-Caraballo, N., Nederhoff, K., Ohenhen, L., O'Neill, A., Parker, K.A., Shirzaei, M., Su, X., Thomas, J.A., Ormondt, M.v., and Vitousek, S.F., 2023, Projected water table depths along the Virginia, Georgia, and Florida coasts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BQQTCI. |
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| Metadata Date | 2023-05-16 |
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| Citations of these data | Loading https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06552-x |
| Access | public |
| License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
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