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Basin characteristics in support of generalized least-squares (GLS) regression for 136 USGS streamgages in urban areas in Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina

Metadata Updated: November 19, 2024

This data release contains a dataset of geospatial and tabular data used in support of a flood-frequency study of urban streams in Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina (Wagner and Ladd, 2024b). The dataset includes data used in the development of generalized least-squares (GLS) regression equations for predicting streamflows at ungaged locations in the study area corresponding to 50-, 20-, 10-, 4-, 2-, 1-, 0.5-, and 0.2-percent annual exceedance probabilities. Included in the dataset are shapefiles of the streamgage basins and outlets used in the study packaged in a zip file (TNurbanFFreq_Basins and TNurbanFFreq_Outlets feature classes in TNurbanFFreq_Basins_and_Outlets.zip), three rasters in tiff format developed for calculation of basin characteristics packaged in a zip file (nlcd2011_developed_percent.tif, piedmont_eco_lvl3_percent.tif, and ridge_and_valley_eco_lvl3_percent.tif in Basin_Characteristic_Rasters.zip), and a table in csv format listing the basin characteristics that were tested as explanatory variables for development of the regression equations (BasinCharsTested.csv). The data contained in the shapefiles of basin polygons and outlet locations for streamgages used in the flood-frequency analysis were derived from various sources (Falcone, 2011; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Geological Survey, 2012; U.S. Geological Survey, 2019) further described in the Entity and Attribute section information in this metadata document related to the TNurbanFFreq_Basins.shp shapefile. The table from this data release listing the basin characteristics tested as explanatory variables predominately includes characteristics that were not used in the final GLS regression equations. The variables used in the final equations were drainage area, the percentage of developed land from the 2011 National Land Cover Database (NLCD; Homer and others, 2015; Dewitz and U.S. Geological Survey, 2021), and the percentages of land within the Piedmont level 3 ecoregion and the Ridge and Valley level 3 ecoregion (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2013). The 3 rasters included in this data release represent the percentage of developed land derived from the 2011 NLCD and the percentages of land within the Piedmont level 3 ecoregion and the Ridge and Valley level 3 ecoregion.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date November 19, 2024
Metadata Updated Date November 19, 2024

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Metadata Created Date November 19, 2024
Metadata Updated Date November 19, 2024
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