{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Claudia C. Faunt", "hasEmail": "mailto:ccfaunt@usgs.gov"}, "description": "This digital dataset contains the monthly precipitation for the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM).  \nThe Central Valley encompasses an approximate 50,000 square-kilometer region of California. The \ncomplex hydrologic system of the Central Valley is simulated using the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) \nnumerical modeling code MODFLOW-FMP (Schmid and others, 2006).  This simulation is referred to \nhere as the CVHM (Faunt, 2009).  Utilizing MODFLOW-FMP, the CVHM simulates groundwater and \nsurface-water flow, irrigated agriculture, land subsidence, and other key processes in the Central Valley \non a monthly basis from 1961-2003.  The total active modeled area is 20,334 square-miles on a finite-\ndifference grid comprising 441 rows and 98 columns. Slightly less than 50 percent of the cells are active. \nThe CVHM model grid has a uniform horizontal discretization of 1x1 square mile and is oriented parallel \nto the valley axis, 34 degrees west of north (Faunt, 2009). The main climatic contributors to the CVHM \nare reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and precipitation. Parameter-Elevation Regressions on Independent \nSlopes Model (PRISM) data (Climate Source, 2006) provide the temperature and precipitation on a monthly \nbasis for a 2-kilometer grid.  The precipitation data were interpolated from the prism grid onto the CVHM \none-square-mile grid. The CVHM is the most recent regional-scale model of the Central Valley developed \nby the USGS.  The CVHM was developed as part of the USGS Groundwater Resources Program (see \n\"Foreword\", Chapter A, page iii, for details).", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H91HVX", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.c50b1649-a8e9-404e-9506-93ac5b625797.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_c50b1649-a8e9-404e-9506-93ac5b625797", "keyword": ["inlandWaters", "Calaveras County", "USGS:c50b1649-a8e9-404e-9506-93ac5b625797", "Yuba County", "Ventura County", "Humboldt County", "Central Valley", "San Joaquin Valley", "Tuolumne County", "Butte County", "Stanislaus County", "San Joaquin County", "Fresno County", "Contra Costa County", "Central Valley, California", "grid", "finite-difference model grid", "Napa County", "environment", "Tulare County", "boundary", "Nevada County", "Madera County", "Santa Clara County", "Shasta County", "hydrogeology", "Tehama County", "San Luis Obispo County", "California", "groundwater", "Kern County", "Sacramento County", "Mendocino County", "Yolo County", "Solano County", "CV-RASA", "Mariposa County", "Placer County", "Glenn County", "Sacramento Valley", "Lake County", "hydrology", "Central Valley Aquifer", "Monterey County", "Central Valley Hydrologic Model", "El Dorado County", "Alameda County", "Trinity County", "Kings County", "Santa Barbara County", "Merced County", "Sutter County", "Colusa County", "Amador County", "geoscientificInformation", "Sonoma County", "evapotranspiration", "Groundwater Availability of the Central Valley Aquifer", "San Benito County"], "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-123.831528, 34.519871, -117.916328, 40.748631", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Monthly Precipitation Input Data for the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM)"}