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Global Aggregation of Stream Silica (GlASS) (ver. 2.0, July 2025)

Riverine silicon (Si) plays a vital role in governing primary production, water quality, and carbon sequestration. The Global Aggregation of Stream Silica (GlASS) database was constructed to assess changes in riverine Si concentrations and fluxes, their relationship to available nutrients, and to evaluate mechanisms driving these patterns. GlASS includes dissolved Si (DSi), dissolved inorganic nitrogen, and dissolved inorganic phosphorus concentrations at daily to quarterly time steps, daily discharge, and watershed characteristics for rivers with drainage areas ranging less than 1 square kilometer to more than 4 million square kilometers and spanning nine climate zones. Chemistry and discharge data range between years 1963 and 2024. Watershed and climate data range between 1948 and 2024. GlASS uses publicly available datasets, ensuring transparency and reproducibility. Original data sources are cited, data quality assurance workflows are public, and input files to a common load model are provided.

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Author(s) Kathi Jo Jankowski orcid, Keira Johnson orcid, Joanna C. Carey, Nicholas Lyon orcid, Paul Julian orcid, Sidney Bush orcid, Lienne R Sethna orcid, Angel Chen, Adam S Wymore orcid, Pirkko Kortelainen orcid, Hjalmar Laudon orcid, Amanda Poste orcid, Diane M McKnight orcid, William H. McDowell, Arial J Shogren orcid, Ruth C. Heindel, Antti Raike orcid, Jeremy B Jones orcid, Fred Worrall, Luke Mosley, Pamela L Sullivan orcid
Publication Date 2024-10-04
Beginning Date of Data 1963-01-01
Ending Date of Data 2023-12-01
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P138M8AR
Citation Jankowski, K.J., Johnson, K., Carey, J.C., Lyon, N., Julian, P., Bush, S., Sethna, L.R., Chen, A., Wymore, A.S., Kortelainen, P., Laudon, H., Poste, A., McKnight, D.M., McDowell, W.H., Shogren, A.J., Heindel, R.C., Raike, A., Jones, J.B., Worrall, F., Mosley, L., and Sullivan, P.L., 2024, Global Aggregation of Stream Silica (GlASS) (ver. 2.0, July 2025): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P138M8AR.
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Metadata Date 2025-07-11
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License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
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