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Projected groundwater head along the North and South Carolina coasts

Seamless unconfined groundwater heads for U.S. coastal North and South Carolina 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.

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Author(s) Patrick Barnard orcid, Kevin M. Befus, Anita C Engelstad orcid, Li Erikson orcid, Amy Foxgrover orcid, Daniel J Hoover orcid, Tim Leijnse orcid, Chris Massey, Robert McCall orcid, Norberto Nadal-Caraballo, Kees Nederhoff, Leonard Ohenhen, Andrea O'Neill orcid, Kai A Parker orcid, Manoocher Shirzaei, Xinyue Su, Jennifer A Thomas orcid, Maarten van Ormondt orcid, Sean F Vitousek orcid, Kilian Vos
Publication Date 2023-01-28
Beginning Date of Data 2008-01-01
Ending Date of Data 2022
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W91314
Citation Barnard, P., Befus, K.M., Engelstad, A.C., Erikson, L., Foxgrover, A., 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., Vitousek, S.F., and Vos, K., 2023, Projected groundwater head along the North and South Carolina coasts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W91314.
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