Publications and Data

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Global characteristics of the modern world ocean Modern Average Global Sea Surface Temperature U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-10, by Peter N. Schweitzer [Update info] Monthly Average Polar Sea Ice Concentration U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-27, by Peter N. Schweitzer [Update info]

PRISM: Pliocene Research, Interpretation, and Synoptic Mapping USGS Open-File Report 92-712 Palynological data from Pliocene sediments, DSDP leg 5 site 32, Northeastern Pacific ocean. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-712, by R. Farley Fleming. USGS Open-File Report 92-713 Palynological data from a 989-ft (301-m) core of Pliocene and early Pleistocene sediments from Bruneau, Idaho. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-713, By Robert S. Thompson. USGS Open-File Report 93-563 Pliocene palynomorph census data from the Pinecrest beds (Tamiami Formation) in Quality Aggregates Phase 6 pit, Southwestern Florida U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-563, By Debra A. Willard. Modern and fossil ostracode census data from the Western Pacific Ocean and seas around Japan Data from two reports published in Micropaleontology and Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, By Thomas M. Cronin, Noriyuki Ikeya, Akihisa Kitamura, Mahito Watanabe, and Takahiro Kamiya. Arctic Ostracode Database Quantitative distribution of ostracodes (Crustacea) in Arctic Ocean sea-floor sediments, by T.M. Cronin, T.R. Holtz, Jr., E.M. Brouwers, W.M. Briggs, Jr., R.C. Whatley, and A. Wood. Pliocene Terrestrial Environments and Data/Model Comparisons Abstracts from a USGS workshop held in Herndon Virginia May 22-23, 1993. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-23, Edited by Robert S. Thompson. Pliocene High-Latitude Climate Records Abstracts from a USGS workshop held in Herndon, Virginia, July 25-27, 1994. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-588, Edited by Scott E. Ishman. USGS Open-File Report 94-281 PRISM 8°x10° Northern Hemisphere Paleoclimate Reconstruction: Digital Data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-281, by PRISM project members. USGS Open-File Report 95-1 Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Paleontology, and Paleomagnetism of Pliocene-Early Pleistocene Lacustrine Deposits in Two Cores from Western Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-1, by R.S. Thompson, C.G. Oviatt, A.P. Roberts, J. Buchner, R. Kelsey, C. Bracht, R.M. Forester, and J.P. Bradbury. USGS Open-File Report 96-669 Pliocene Planktic Foraminiferal census data from 19 core sites in the North Atlantic region: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-669, by PRISM project members. USGS Open-File Report 99-535 Middle Pliocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction: PRISM2: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-535, by Harry J. Dowsett, John A. Barron, Richard Z. Poore, Robert S. Thompson, Thomas M. Cronin, Scott E. Ishman and Debra A. Willard.

Paleoclimate studies of the Arctic Ocean USGS Open-File Report 91-346 Planktic foraminifer census data from Northwind Ridge core 5, Arctic Ocean. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-346, by Kevin M. Foley and Richard Z. Poore. USGS Open-File Report 93-218 Planktic foraminifer census data from Northwind Ridge cores PI-88-AR P3, PI-88-AR P7, and PI-88-AR P9, Arctic Ocean. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-218, by Kevin M. Foley and Richard Z. Poore.

Mississippi Basin Carbon Studies USGS Open-File Report 98-36 Carbon Storage and Late Holocene Chronostratigraphy of a Mississippi River Deltaic Marsh, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-36, edited by Helaine W. Markewich. USGS Open-File Report 98-429 Detailed Descriptions for Sampling, Sample Preparation and Analyses of Cores from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-429, edited by Helaine W. Markewich. USGS Open-File Report 98-440 Implementation of the Century Ecosystem Model for an Eroding Hillslope in Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-440, by Jodie Sharpe, Jennifer W. Harden, Seth Dabney, Dennis Ojima, and William Parton. USGS Open-File Report 98-501 Soil, environmental, and watershed measurements in support of carbon cycling studies in northwestern Mississippi: USGS Open-File Report 98-501, by T.G. Huntington, J.W. Harden, S.M. Dabney, D.A. Marion, C. Alonso, J.M. Sharpe, and T.L. Fries. USGS Open-File Report 99-319 Upland Soil Database for Sites in Yazoo Basin, Northwestern Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-319, by J.W. Harden, T.L. Fries, and T.G. Huntington.

Soil Chronosequences in the Western United States USGS Bulletin 1590-A Soils developed in granitic alluvium near Merced, California, by J.W. Harden. USGS Bulletin 1590-B Soils Developed on Coastal and Fluvial Terraces near Ventura, California by J.W. Harden, A.M. Sarna-Wojcicki, and G.R. Dembroff. USGS Bulletin 1590-F Soil Chronosequence Along the Cowlitz River, Washington, by D. P. Dethier.

Owens Lake Climate Record USGS Open-File Report 93-683 Core OL-92 from Owens Lake, southeast California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-683, edited by George I. Smith and James L. Bischoff.

Buck Lake Paleomagnetic Studies USGS Open-File Report 95-673 Sediment Magnetic and Paleomagnetic Data from Buck Lake, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-673, by Joseph G. Rosenbaum, Richard L. Reynolds, Priscilla L. Fitzmaurice, John Drexler, C. Gene Whitney and David. P. Adam.

Grass Lake Paleomagnetic Studies USGS Open-File Report 96-294 Sediment Magnetic, Paleomagnetic, and Geochemical Data from Lacustrine Sediment in a Core from Grass Lake, Siskiyou County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-294, by Patti J. Best, Richard L. Reynolds, Joseph G. Rosenbaum, John Drexler and David. P. Adam.

Tule Lake Climate Record USGS Open-File Report 96-293 Sediment Magnetic, Paleomagnetic, and Geochemical Data from Quaternary Lacustrine Sediment in two Cores from Tule Lake, Siskiyou County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-293, by Patti J. Best, Richard L. Reynolds, Joseph G. Rosenbaum, Walter Dean, Jeannine Honey, John Drexler and David. P. Adam. USGS Open-File Report 96-257 Geochemistry of Sediments From Tule Lake, California: USGS Open-File Report 96-257, by Walter E. Dean.

Methane and gas hydrates in Arctic sediments and permafrost USGS Open-File Report 92-299 Molecular and isotopic analyses of the hydrocarbon gases within gas hydrate-bearing rock units of the Prudhoe Bay-Kuparuk River area in northern Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-299, by Zenon C. Valin and Timothy S. Collett. USGS Open-File Report 95-70 Methane in coastal sea water, sea ice, and bottom sediments, Beaufort Sea, Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-70, by Thomas D. Lorenson and Keith A. Kvenvolden.

Vegetation-Climate Modeling USGS Open-File Report 99-338 Quantitative Paleoclimatic Reconstructions From Late Pleistocene Plant Macrofossils of the Yucca Mountain Region: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-338, by Robert S. Thompson, Katherine H. Anderson, and Patrick J. Bartlein. USGS Circular 1153 Assessing Potential Future Changes in Climate, Hydrology, and Vegetation in the Western United States: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1153, by Robert S. Thompson, Steven W. Hostetler, Patrick J. Bartlein, and Katherine H. Anderson. USGS Professional Paper 1650 A&B Atlas of Relations Between Climatic Parameters and Distributions of Important Trees and Shrubs in North America: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1650 A & B, by Robert S. Thompson, Katherine H. Anderson, and Patrick J. Bartlein.

Volcano Emissions USGS Open-File Report 94-212 A compilation of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide emission-rate data from Mount St. Helens during 1980-88: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-212, by Kenneth A. McGee and Thomas J. Casadevall. USGS Open-File Report 95-55 A Compilation of Sulfur Dioxide and Carbon Dioxide Emission-Rate Data from Cook Inlet Volcanoes (Redoubt, Spurr, Iliamna, and Augustine), Alaska During the Period from 1990 to 1994:U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-55, by Michael P. Doukas.

Climates of Arid and Semiarid regions USGS Open-File Report 95-78 Geometeorological data collected by the USGS Desert Winds Project at Gold Spring, great basin desert, Northeastern Arizona, 1979 - 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-78, by Paula J. Helm, Carol S. Breed, Richard Tigges, and Patricia A. Garcia. Dust Deposition in Southern Nevada and California, 1984-1989: Relations to Climate, Source Area, and Lithology Data forming the background of a report published in 1995 in the Journal of Geophysical Research (volume 100-D5, pages 8893-8918) by Marith C. Reheis and Rolf Kihl. USGS Open-File Report 97-792 Data For Devils Hole Core DH-11. This report presents the stable isotope values measured in Devils Hole Core DH-11 and interpolated ages at the depth the samples were taken, as analyzed in a recent publication by Winograd and others (1997). U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-792, by J.M. Landwehr, T.B. Coplen, K. R. Ludwig, I.J. Winograd, and A.C. Riggs. For an overview of the project, see the "Devil's Hole Primer". USGS Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2323 Extent of Pleistocene Lakes in the Western Great Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2323, by Marith C. Reheis. USGS Open-File Report 99-531 Elemental Analyses of Modern Dust in Southern Nevada and California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-531, by Marith C. Reheis, James R. Budahn, and Paul J. Lamothe.

Warm Climate Studies USGS Bulletin 1271 Last Interglacial Sea-Surface Temperature Estimates from the California Margin: Improvements to the Modern Analog Technique: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1271, by Harry J. Dowsett and Richard Z. Poore. USGS Open-File Report 99-312 Marine Isotope Stage 11 and associated Terrestial Records: Workshop Report: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-312, Edited by Richard Z. Poore, Lloyd Burckle, Andre Droxler and William E. McNulty. Data tables from USGS Open-File Report 99-397 Tables of Microfossil and stable isotope data from the last interglacial records of ODP 1018 and 1020, from U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-397. Data tables from USGS Open-File Report 99-413 Tables of Color Reflectance Record from Ocean Drilling Program Hole 625B, Gulf of Mexico (Marine Isotope Stage 5 interval), from U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-413.

Cold Climate Studies

USGS Fact Sheet 009-94
Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. The information available online is a fact sheet describing this multivolume USGS Professional Paper.
Chapter A: Introduction and Appendix, in prep
Chapter B: Antarctica, 1988
Chapter C: Greenland, 1995
Chapter D: Iceland, in prep
Chapter E: Continental Europe (excluding the European part of the Former Soviet Union), 1993
Chapter F: USSR, China (P.R.C.), India, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, in prep
Chapter G: Turkey, Iran, and Africa, 1991
Chapter H: Irian Jaya, Indonesia, and New Zealand, 1989
Chapter I: South America, 1998
Chapter J: North America, in prep
Chapter K: Glaciological Topics, in prep

Borehole Temperature Logs from Arctic Alaska, pre-1989
This dataset consists of borehole temperature measurements acquired in permafrost regions of arctic Alaska between 1950 and 1988 by the U.S. Geological Survey. A large number of the 87 sites (boreholes) represented in this dataset are deep enough to penetrate the base of permafrost.

Hydroclimatological Data From Three Benchmark Glaciers
The USGS makes measurements of the net, winter, and summer mass balance on three "benchmark" glaciers, South Cascade Glacier in Washington State, and Gulkana and Wolverine Glaciers in Alaska. Daily measurements are also made at each glacier of air temperature and precipitation.

Streamflow Data for Hydroclimatology USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4076 Hydroclimatic data network (HCDN): Streamflow data set, 1874-1988 (CD-ROM). The USGS presently measures streamflow at about 7000 sites nationwide; data also are available for more than 10,000 sites where measurement has been discontinued. The HCDN is a subset of about 1600 high-quality streamflow records at sites where the streamflow is not significantly regulated and where the records span periods of time long enough to be of use in detecting trends or changes in streamflow characteristics.

Data from other USGS sources Marine and Coastal Geology Alaska Volcano Observatory Cascades Volcano Observatory Hawaii Volcano Observatory National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Data from non-USGS sources Links to Great Earth-Science Resources A well-maintained compendium of links to geoscience information on the web, hosted by Department of Geology, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Global Change Master Directory NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center NOAA National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado NGDC Paleoclimate Division NGDC Marine Geology & Geophysics Division National Snow and Ice Data Center NSIDC archives analogue and digital snow and ice data, creates and distributes data products, and maintains a large library collection in support of snow and ice research. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Marine geology, geophysics, geochemistry, ocean acoustics, and biology. Atlantic Geoscience Centre The principal marine geoscience facility in Canada, a division of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). PO.DAAC at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA's Distributed Active Archive Center for Physical Oceanography

Software tools and utilities

This listing includes tools and utilities that cannot be found elsewhere; all were written by P. Schweitzer of USGS.

ANALOG: A program for estimating paleoclimate parameters using the method of modern analogs: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-645
Reverse: Utility for reversing the lines in a text file
Transpos: Utility for transposing rows and columns in tab-delimited text files
Counter: Pollen counter for Mac, DOS, and Unix, with source
DLG code: UNIX code to reformat DLG-3 Digital Line Graph files.
see_text for MS-DOS: text file browser for MS-DOS, including source
Miscellaneous MS-DOS screen utilities: miscellaneous utilities for MS-DOS text screen
Text conversion utilities: Utilities to convert text files to Mac, DOS, and UNIX
Xed: Programmer's text editor for X Windows, Mac, and extended DOS, with documentation in plain text, RTF, PostScript, and HTML.
Tools for handling formal metadata: Pre-parser, editor, and compiler for creating, maintaining, and validating metadata conforming to the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata.

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Last updated Thursday, 11-Oct-2001 18:50:19 EDT