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Wetland Salinity Maps of Select Estuary Sites in the United States, 2020

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.3334/ornldaac/2392

This dataset provides gridded average annual wetland salinity concentrations in practical salinity units (PSU) at 30-meter resolution within 24 coastal estuary sites in the United States predicted for 2020.

Description

Salinity in estuaries can serve as a proxy for sulfate concentration, which can inhibit methanogenesis. Data were derived from a hybrid approach to mapping salinity as a continuous variable using a combination of physical watershed and stream characteristics, optical remote sensing based on vegetation characteristics, and climate variables.

Data are provided in cloud-optimized GeoTIFF format covering 33 Hydrologic Unit Code 8-digit (HUC8) watersheds to the extent of palustrine and estuarine wetlands as defined by NOAA's 2016 Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) Coastal Land Cover layer. Additionally, model outputs are provided in comma separated values (CSV) files, and code scripts are provided in a compressed (*.zip) file.

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Stated by source
Computer · Estuary · MODELS · Salinity Density
Inferred from text
Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 19 field assertions
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FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
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concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecosystems/marine-ecosystems/estuarysource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/salinity-densitysource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensingenrichment · NASA CMRkeyword-concept-rules@1.0.0title+description (65%)
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