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    <citation>
      <citeinfo>
        <origin>Michael E. Wieczorek</origin>
        <origin>Shannon E. Jackson</origin>
        <origin>Gregory E. Schwarz</origin>
        <pubdate>2018</pubdate>
        <title>Select Climate Attributes: Mean-Annual Evapotranspiration, Gabriel Senay (2013)</title>
        <geoform>tabular digital data</geoform>
        <pubinfo>
          <pubplace>Reston, Virginia</pubplace>
          <publish>U.S. Geological Survey</publish>
        </pubinfo>
        <onlink>https://doi.org/10.5066/F7765D7V</onlink>
      </citeinfo>
    </citation>
    <descript>
      <abstract>This tabular data set represents mean-annual evapotranspiration, estimated by Senay and others (2013) and 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 for mean-annual evapotranspiration was produced by Gabriel Savoca and others, (USGS, 2013) using remote sensing and weather data sets. Units are millimeters per year. 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, 2016).</abstract>
      <purpose>This data set was created by the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment Project (NAWQA) which is part of the USGS National Water Quality Program (NWQP).  This effort was undertaken to estimate the  mean-annual evapotranspiration, estimated by Savoca and others (2013) for NHDPlusV2 flowline catchments and upstream river networks to support statistical analysis, map display, and model parameterization.</purpose>
      <supplinf>The data processed here uses a modified routing data base for the NHDPlusV2 flowline network (ENHDPlusV2_us, Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2016). The NHDPlusV2 flowline network serves as the spatial infrastructure for many water-quality modeling efforts included under NAWQA Cycle 3 status and trend assessments including the SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes) model (Rowe and others, 2009). The NHDPlusV2 flowline network is a publically available digital geospatial framework (database) that depicts the network of stream segments and their catchments within the conterminous United States (see Moore and Diewald, 2016 for more detail). The NHDPlusv2 data set includes catchments for each reach covering the conterminous U.S. which includes the catchment boundaries in neighboring Canada and Mexico. These catchments are used as the spatial units for zonal statistics. A statistic (summation, average, minimum or maximum) is calculated for each zone (catchment), based on values from the source ancillary data set (See Process_Description for more details). The output of these values are used as the source input data for an accumulation program which uses a routing database to allocate and accumulate landscape metrics. This database  (ENHDPlusV2_us) is based on a topologically reconditionedversion of the NHDPlusV2 hydrography network and is used for routing purposes only. No cartographic changes were made to the original NHDPlusV2 in either the flowline or catchment line work.</supplinf>
    </descript>
    <timeperd>
      <timeinfo>
        <sngdate>
          <caldate>2013</caldate>
        </sngdate>
      </timeinfo>
      <current>publication date</current>
    </timeperd>
    <status>
      <progress>Complete</progress>
      <update>None</update>
    </status>
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        <southbc>23.243486</southbc>
      </bounding>
      <descgeog>CONUS United States</descgeog>
    </spdom>
    <keywords>
      <theme>
        <themekt>None</themekt>
        <themekey>evapotranspiration</themekey>
        <themekey>SPARROW</themekey>
        <themekey>Inlandwaters</themekey>
        <themekey>NHDPlus</themekey>
        <themekey>Catchment</themekey>
        <themekey>NAWQA</themekey>
      </theme>
      <theme>
        <themekt>USGS Metadata Identifier</themekt>
        <themekey>USGS:57519f16e4b053f0edd03d41</themekey>
      </theme>
      <place>
        <placekt>None</placekt>
        <placekey>Conterminous United States</placekey>
      </place>
    </keywords>
    <accconst>none</accconst>
    <useconst>One should use caution and read this document before using these data to estimate smaller areas. These data should not be used for site-specific evaluation, surveying, or engineering purposes. They should also not be used beyond the limits of the source data's scale. Use of this data is considered acceptance of the limitations of this data and that the user has read and understood this metadata prior to its use in any form.</useconst>
    <ptcontac>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntperp>
          <cntper>Michael E. Wieczorek</cntper>
          <cntorg>US Geological Survey, Maryland Water Science Center</cntorg>
        </cntperp>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing and physical</addrtype>
          <address>5522 Research Park Drive</address>
          <city>Baltimore</city>
          <state>MD</state>
          <postal>21228</postal>
          <country>USA</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>443-498-5550</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>mewieczo@usgs.gov</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </ptcontac>
    <datacred>We would like to acknowledge the following USGS employees.  The original conception and rationale for creating these data is from Robert Gilliom and Daren Carlisle.  We also acknowledge Andrew LaMotte in helping to process and format much of this data as well as the helpful colleague reviews provided by Alison Appling and Daren Carlisle.  We also would like to thank Dave Wolock, Curtis Price, Roland Viger, and Drew Ignazio for their invaluable input.</datacred>
    <crossref>
      <citeinfo>
        <origin>Gary L. Rowe</origin>
        <origin>Kenneth Belitz</origin>
        <origin>Hedeff I. Essaid</origin>
        <origin>Robert J. Gilliom</origin>
        <origin>Pixie A. Hamilton</origin>
        <origin>Anne B. Hoos</origin>
        <origin>Dennis D. Lynch</origin>
        <origin>Mark D. Munn</origin>
        <origin>David W. Wolock</origin>
        <pubdate>2009</pubdate>
        <title>Design of Cycle 3 of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, 2013–2023: Part 1: Framework of Water-Quality Issues and Potential Approaches</title>
        <pubinfo>
          <pubplace>Reston, Virginia</pubplace>
          <publish>U.S. Geological Survey</publish>
        </pubinfo>
        <onlink>http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1296/pdf/OF09-1296.pdf</onlink>
      </citeinfo>
    </crossref>
    <crossref>
      <citeinfo>
        <origin>Richard B. Moore</origin>
        <origin>Thomas G. Dewald</origin>
        <pubdate>2016</pubdate>
        <title>The Road to NHDPlus-Advancements in Digital Stream Networks and Associated Catchments</title>
        <pubinfo>
          <pubplace>American Water Resources Association</pubplace>
          <publish>(JAWRA) 1-10.DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12389</publish>
        </pubinfo>
        <onlink>http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12389</onlink>
      </citeinfo>
    </crossref>
    <crossref>
      <citeinfo>
        <origin>James A. Falcone</origin>
        <origin>Daren M. Carlisle</origin>
        <origin>David M. Wolock</origin>
        <origin>Michael R. Meador</origin>
        <pubdate>2010</pubdate>
        <title>GAGESII: a stream gage database for evaluating natural and altered flow conditions in the conterminous United States</title>
        <pubinfo>
          <pubplace>Ecology 91 (2), 621</pubplace>
          <publish>Data Paper in Ecological Archives E091-045-D1</publish>
        </pubinfo>
        <onlink>http://esapubs.org/Archive/ecol/E091/045/metadata.htm</onlink>
      </citeinfo>
    </crossref>
  </idinfo>
  <dataqual>
    <attracc>
      <attraccr>Basin metrics were spot checked by randomly creating a set of basins across the country from the NHDPlus version 2 reach catchments and using ESRI's ZonalStatisticsAsTable function to compute basin percents of the tile drain coverage from 1992. These values were compared to values in this dataset. Results demonstrated the process performed correctly.</attraccr>
    </attracc>
    <logic>None</logic>
    <complete>None</complete>
    <posacc>
      <horizpa>
        <horizpar>No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted</horizpar>
      </horizpa>
      <vertacc>
        <vertaccr>No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted</vertaccr>
      </vertacc>
    </posacc>
    <lineage>
      <srcinfo>
        <srccite>
          <citeinfo>
            <origin>Savoca, Mark E.</origin>
            <origin>Senay,Gabriel B</origin>
            <origin>Maupin, Molly A</origin>
            <origin>Kenny, Joan F.</origin>
            <origin>Perry, Charles A.</origin>
            <pubdate>2013</pubdate>
            <title>Operational Evapotranspiration Mapping Using Remote Sensing and Weather Datasets: A New Parameterization for the SSEB Approach</title>
            <geoform>raster digital data</geoform>
            <pubinfo>
              <pubplace>Reston, VA</pubplace>
              <publish>USGS</publish>
            </pubinfo>
            <onlink>https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/51d3e84fe4b09630fbdc5246</onlink>
          </citeinfo>
        </srccite>
        <typesrc>Journal article</typesrc>
        <srctime>
          <timeinfo>
            <sngdate>
              <caldate>2013</caldate>
            </sngdate>
          </timeinfo>
          <srccurr>publication date</srccurr>
        </srctime>
        <srccitea>Senay_AET</srccitea>
        <srccontr>The source data provided information on Mean-annual evapotranspiration, estimated by Senay and others (2013).</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <srcinfo>
        <srccite>
          <citeinfo>
            <origin>Gregory E. Schwarz</origin>
            <origin>Michael E. Wieczorek</origin>
            <pubdate>2018</pubdate>
            <title>Database of Modified Routing for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Flowlines</title>
            <geoform>tabular data</geoform>
            <pubinfo>
              <pubplace>Reston, VA</pubplace>
              <publish>U.S. Geological Survey</publish>
            </pubinfo>
            <onlink>https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70132430</onlink>
          </citeinfo>
        </srccite>
        <typesrc>online</typesrc>
        <srctime>
          <timeinfo>
            <sngdate>
              <caldate>2018</caldate>
            </sngdate>
          </timeinfo>
          <srccurr>publication date</srccurr>
        </srctime>
        <srccitea>nhdplusus_v2.sas</srccitea>
        <srccontr>The source data provided routing information for the NHDPlusV2 flow line network.</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <srcinfo>
        <srccite>
          <citeinfo>
            <origin>U.S. Environmental Protection</origin>
            <origin>U.S. Geological Survey</origin>
            <pubdate>2012</pubdate>
            <title>National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.1</title>
            <geoform>vector digital data</geoform>
            <pubinfo>
              <pubplace>Reston, VA</pubplace>
              <publish>U.S. Geological Survey</publish>
            </pubinfo>
            <onlink>http://www.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV2_data.php</onlink>
          </citeinfo>
        </srccite>
        <typesrc>online</typesrc>
        <srctime>
          <timeinfo>
            <sngdate>
              <caldate>2012</caldate>
            </sngdate>
          </timeinfo>
          <srccurr>publication date</srccurr>
        </srctime>
        <srccitea>NHDPlus</srccitea>
        <srccontr>The source data is the basic hydrologic framework used to process  these data.</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>1) Recieved source data from gabriel Senay (written communic., 2016).

2) Mean statistics were calculated for each NHDPlus version 2 reach catchment using ESRI's "ZonalStatisticsAsTable" function in python.

3) Catchment results were accumulated using a SAS program (see Supplemental Information) to produce watershed-level summaries of landscape metrics for all ~2.65 million NHDPlusV2 streams and associated catchments. The accumulation algorithm is described in the Supplemental Information section.

4) Exported results into a comma separated text file format.</procdesc>
        <procdate>20151221</procdate>
      </procstep>
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  </dataqual>
  <spdoinfo>
    <indspref>Common Identifier Code for each catchment and reach segment (COMID)</indspref>
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      <enttyp>
        <enttypl>ET_CONUS.txt</enttypl>
        <enttypd>comma separated tabular data</enttypd>
        <enttypds>U.S. Geological Survey</enttypds>
      </enttyp>
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        <attrlabl>COMID</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Unique ID to relate to each NHDPlus version 2 catchment and flow line.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>http://nhd.usgs.gov/NHDDataDictionary_model2.0.pdf</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <udom>Unique numbers that are automatically generated.</udom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>CAT_AET</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Mean-annual evapotranspiration, estimated by Senay and others (2013) per NHDPlus version 2 catchment.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>U.S. Geological Survey</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <rdom>
            <rdommin>0</rdommin>
            <rdommax>2505.91</rdommax>
            <attrunit>millimeters per year</attrunit>
          </rdom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>NODATA</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Percent of catchment that the source data does not cover. -9999 denotes 100% NODATA.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>U.S. Geological Survey</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <rdom>
            <rdommin>0.0</rdommin>
            <rdommax>100.0</rdommax>
            <attrunit>percent</attrunit>
          </rdom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>ACC_AET</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Accumulated  mean-annual evapotranspiration, estimated by Senay and others (2013) based on divergence routing. -9999 denotes flow line reach is disconnected from the network and cannot be accumulated.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>U.S. Geological Survey</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <rdom>
            <rdommin>0</rdommin>
            <rdommax>1939.14</rdommax>
            <attrunit>millimeters per year</attrunit>
          </rdom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>ACC_NODATA</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Accumulated percent of catchment that the source GRID does not cover based on divergence routing. -9999 denotes flow line reach is disconnected from the network and cannot be accumulated.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>U.S. Geological Survey</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <rdom>
            <rdommin>0.0</rdommin>
            <rdommax>100.0</rdommax>
            <attrunit>Percentage</attrunit>
          </rdom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>TOT_AET</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Accumulated  mean-annual evapotranspiration, estimated by Senay and others (2013) based on total upstream accumulation. -9999 denotes flow line reach is disconnected from the network and cannot be accumulated.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>U.S. Geological Survey</attrdefs>
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          <rdom>
            <rdommin>0</rdommin>
            <rdommax>1939.14</rdommax>
            <attrunit>millimeters per year</attrunit>
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        <attrlabl>TOT_NODATA</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Percent of catchment that the source GRID does not cover based on total upstream accumulation.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>U.S. Geological Survey</attrdefs>
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          <rdom>
            <rdommin>0.0</rdommin>
            <rdommax>100.0</rdommax>
            <attrunit>Percentage</attrunit>
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        <cntperp>
          <cntper>Michael E. Wieczorek</cntper>
          <cntorg>U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase</cntorg>
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          <addrtype>mailing and physical</addrtype>
          <address>Denver Federal Center, Building 810, Mail Stop 302</address>
          <city>Denver</city>
          <state>CO</state>
          <postal>80225</postal>
          <country>USA</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>443-498-5550</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>mewieczo@usgs.gov</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </distrib>
    <distliab>Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Although this database has been subjected to rigorous review and is substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review. Furthermore, it is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.  The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.</distliab>
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