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Select Regional Attributes: Physiographic Provinces
This tabular data set represents the percent of physiographic provinces compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID. The source data is the "Physiographic divisions of the conterminous U. S." produced by the United States Geological Survey (Fenneman, 1946). Units are percent. The "Physical Divisions of the United States," is based on eight major 1946 divisions, 25 provinces, and 86 sections representing distinct areas having common topography, rock types and structure, and geologic and geomorphic history. (Fenneman, 1946). Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions. Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).
| Author(s) |
Gregory E Schwarz |
| Publication Date | 2018 |
| Beginning Date of Data | 1946 |
| Ending Date of Data | 1946 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5066/F7765D7V |
| Citation | Schwarz, G.E., Jackson, S.E., Wieczorek, M.E., Sekellick, A.J., and Staub, L.E., 2018, Select Regional Attributes: Physiographic Provinces: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7765D7V. |
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| Metadata Date | 2026-03-26 |
| Related Publication | There was no related primary publication associated with this data release. |
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| Access | public |
| License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
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