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Nitrogen sources to and export from the Chesapeake Bay watershed, 1950 to 2050

This U.S. Geological Survey data release contains datasets that combine past data with future projections of nitrogen sources and nitrogen export to the Chesapeake Bay watershed for the years 1950-2050. To help understand the effect of human and environmental changes over this time period, data for nitrogen sources from wastewater, agricultural fertilizer and manure, and atmospheric deposition are combined with datasets of population and land use. These datasets were used in conjunction with a previously calibrated SPAtially Referenced Regression On Watershed attributes (SPARROW) modeling tool to estimate the mean annual loads of total nitrogen to the Chesapeake Bay and nontidal stream reaches in the watershed at a decadal timestep from 1950-2050. SPARROW model output of incremental and total loads for each reach in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are reported in this data release.

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Author(s) Jessica A Hopple orcid, Paul D Capel orcid, Silvia Terziotti orcid, Perry M Jones orcid, Forrest K. Kalk orcid, Douglas A Burns orcid, Gopal Bhatt, Lewis Linker orcid, Andrew J Sekellick orcid, John Clune orcid, Peter R Claggett orcid
Publication Date 2021-03-03
Beginning Date of Data 1950
Ending Date of Data 2050
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P953SO6P
Citation Hopple, J.A., Capel, P.D., Terziotti, S., Jones, P.M., Kalk, F.K., Burns, D.A., Bhatt, G., Linker, L., Sekellick, A.J., Clune, J., and Claggett, P.R., 2021, Nitrogen sources to and export from the Chesapeake Bay watershed, 1950 to 2050: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P953SO6P.
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Metadata Date 2022-09-08
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