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Geospatial Fabric for the National Hydrologic Model Alaska Domain, version 1

Metadata Updated: July 6, 2024

This metadata record documents a geospatial dataset for the U.S. Geological Survey Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) used to drive the National Hydrologic Model (NHM). The Alaska Geospatial Fabric v1 is the spatial representation of the hydrologic response units (HRUs) used for the PRMS NHM Alaska ___domain. These HRUs were generated using the twelve-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC12) watershed from the U.S. Geological Survey's Watershed Boundary Dataset (USGS, 2019), the Natural Resources Canada National Hydrographic Network (NHN) Work Units (NHN, 2019), similar to USGS eight-digit HUC watersheds, and stream gage locations from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS, 2019) and Natural Resources Canada (NHN, 2019). Watershed-to-watershed routing was added to all Canadian Work Units and updated in twelve-digit HUCs from topographic map examination to ensure connectivity from the headwaters of the ___domain to the ocean. Watersheds containing one or more stream gages were bisected using standard watershed delineation techniques to ensure accurate contributing area for each gage. Gages near watershed boundaries were not used to bisect the watershed. Following these processing steps, these watersheds became the HRUs used for the initial version of the National Hydrologic Model Alaska Domain. Overlapping watershed vector lines were not unified. The stream gages used for this exercise became the points of interest (POIs) for use in the Alaska Domain. Stream segments used to route water from HRUs to stream outlets were generated using the routing information in the HRUs and the centroids of the HRUs. Please refer to the lineage elements of this metadata record for the above citations.

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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 June 1, 2023
Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2024

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Harvested from DOI EDI

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2024
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 20200831
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 010:12
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Metadata Type geospatial
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Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > U.S. Geological Survey
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