The implications of future climate change on the blue water footprint of hydropower in the contiguous US by Gang Zhao, Huilin Gao, Shih-Chieh Kao

“…To facilitate the sustainable management of both water and energy resources under the impact of climate change in the contiguous United States (CONUS), the BWF values of 143 major multipurpose reservoirs were evaluated during the historical period (1985–2014) and two future periods (2020–2049 and 2070–2099). …”
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Complexifying urban expansion: an exploratory, gradient-based approach by Steven M. Richter, R. Patrick Bixler

“…Exploratory quantitative analysis of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) provides a prototype implementation, testing the utility of the gradient-based approach for all urban regions in the contiguous United States. Modeling covers both the full study period, 2001–16, and as separate 2001–11 and 2011–16 panels, assessing how relationships change over time. …”
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The CAMELS data set: catchment attributes and meteorology for large-sample studies by N. Addor, N. Addor, A. J. Newman, N. Mizukami, M. P. Clark

“…We present a new data set of attributes for 671 catchments in the contiguous United States (CONUS) minimally impacted by human activities. …”
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Diverging climate response of corn yield and carbon use efficiency across the U.S. by Shuo Yu, Nicola Falco, Nivedita Patel, Yuxin Wu, Haruko Wainwright

“…In this paper, we developed an open-source package to analyze the overall trend and responses of both carbon use efficiency (CUE) and corn yield to climate factors for the contiguous United States. Our algorithm enables automatic retrieval of remote sensing data through the Google Earth Engine (GEE) and U.S. …”
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US wildfire potential: a historical view and future projection using high-resolution climate data by Emily K Brown, Jiali Wang, Yan Feng

“…To examine temporal and spatial features of historical wildfire trends and future changes, a common fire index, the Keetch–Byram Drought Index (KBDI), is calculated over the contiguous United States (CONUS) and Alaska. We introduce an efficient initialization method and calculate 36 years (1982–2017) of historical KBDI at 4 km using a high-quality observational dataset. …”
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Assessing Access to Digital Services in Health Care–Underserved Communities in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study by Diego F. Cuadros, PhD, Claudia M. Moreno, PhD, F. DeWolfe Miller, PhD, Ryosuke Omori, PhD, Neil J. MacKinnon, PhD

“…Patients and Methods: Data from 3108 counties in the contiguous United States was used in this study. Access to broadband was defined as the percentage of population with a high-speed internet subscription. …”
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Spatial distribution of socio-demographic and housing-based factors in relation to flash and slow-rise flooding hazards in the U.S by Oluwatobi Oke, Erin Dougherty, Kristen L Rasmussen, Ryan R Morrison, Ellison Carter

“…In this study, we compare the spatial patterning of social vulnerability, types of housing, and housing tenure (i.e. rented vs. owned) between two specific flood types used operationally by the National Weather Service—flash floods and slow-rise floods—in the floodplains across the Contiguous United States (CONUS). We synthesized several datasets, including established distributions of flood hazards and flooding characteristics, indicators of socioeconomic status, social vulnerability, and housing characteristics, and used generalized estimating equations to examine the proportion of socially vulnerable populations and housing types and tenure residing in the flash and slow-rise flood extents. …”
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Large-scale forest inventories of the United States and China reveal positive effects of biodiversity on productivity by James V Watson, Jingjing Liang, Patrick C Tobin, Xiangdong Lei, James S Rentch, Catherine E Artis

“…Methods We compiled ground-measured data from approx. one half million forest inventory sample plots across the contiguous United States, Alaska, and northeastern China to map tree species richness, forest stocking, and productivity at a continental scale. …”
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Synthesis of historical reservoir operations from 1980 to 2020 for the evaluation of reservoir representation in large-scale hydrologic models by J. C. Steyaert, L. E. Condon

“…<p>All the major river systems in the contiguous United States (CONUS) (and many in the world) are impacted by dams, yet reservoir operations remain difficult to quantify and model due to a lack of data. …”
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A multi-omics longitudinal aging dataset in primary human fibroblasts with mitochondrial perturbations by Gabriel Sturm, Anna S. Monzel, Kalpita R. Karan, Jeremy Michelson, Sarah A. Ware, Andres Cardenas, Jue Lin, Céline Bris, Balaji Santhanam, Michael P. Murphy, Morgan E. Levine, Steve Horvath, Daniel W. Belsky, Shuang Wang, Vincent Procaccio, Brett A. Kaufman, Michio Hirano, Martin Picard

“…Measurement(s) gene expression assay • DNA Methylation • Telomere Length • Seahorse Bioenergetics • mtDNA copy number • Whole Genome Sequencing • Cytokine • cell-free DNA • mtDNA sequencing • cell-free GDF15 • cell-free IL6 Technology Type(s) Illumina HiSeq. 4000 • Illumina epic array • Real Time PCR • Seahorse XFe96 • Real Time PCR • Luminex 200 • ELISA Factor Type(s) time grown in culture Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo sapiens Sample Characteristic - Environment cell culture Sample Characteristic - Location contiguous United States of America…”
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Marginal value analysis reveals shifting importance of migration habitat for waterfowl under a changing climate by Ryan C. Burner, Benjamin D. Golas, Kevin J. Aagaard, Eric V. Lonsdorf, Wayne E. Thogmartin

“…To quantify this value, we used a continental‐scale energetics‐based model of daily dabbling duck movement to assess the marginal value of lands across the contiguous United States during the non‐breeding period (September to May). …”
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Effects of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation on Drought Impacts in the United States by Fitzgerald, Ellen, Neumann, James E., Martinich, Jeremy, Boehlert, Brent B., Strzepek, Kenneth Marc

“…The method begins by constructing reduced-form models of the effect of drought on agriculture and reservoir recreation in the contiguous United States. These relationships are then applied to drought projections based on two climate stabilization scenarios and two twenty-first-century time periods. …”
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Observational Evidence that Great Plains Irrigation Has Enhanced Summer Precipitation Intensity and Totals in the Midwestern United States by Fan, Ying, Lintner, Benjamin R., Weaver, Christopher P., Alter, Ross Evan

“…As a first step toward attribution of these precipitation changes, a detailed analysis of observed daily summer precipitation frequency and intensity is conducted for the contiguous United States over multiple spatial scales and time periods from 1895 to 2011. …”
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Quantifying and monetizing potential climate change policy impacts on terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage and wildfires in the United States by Mills, David, Jones, Russell, Carney, Karen, St. Juliana, Alexis, Ready, Richard, Crimmins, Allison, Martinich, Jeremy, Shouse, Kate, DeAngelo, Benjamin, Monier, Erwan

“…This paper develops and applies methods to quantify and monetize projected impacts on terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage and areas burned by wildfires in the contiguous United States under scenarios with and without global greenhouse gas mitigation. …”
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Estimation of Landscape Soil Water Losses from Satellite Observations of Soil Moisture by McColl, Kaighin A., Haghighi, Erfan, Salvucci, Guido D., Akbar, Ruzbeh, Gianotti, Daniel J, Entekhabi, Dara

“…This study presents an observation-driven technique to delineate the dominant boundaries and temporal shifts between different hydrologic regimes over the contiguous United States (CONUS). The energy- and water-limited evapotranspiration regimes as well as percolation to the subsurface are hydrologic processes that dominate the loss of stored water in the soil following precipitation events. …”
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Satellite-based detection of contrails using deep learning by Kulik, Luke.

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The Association of a Geographically Wide Social Media Network on Depression: County-Level Ecological Analysis by Alaina M Beauchamp, Christoph U Lehmann, Richard J Medford, Amy E Hughes

“…This study included all 3142 counties in the contiguous United States. We used measures obtained between 2018 and 2020 for adult residents in the study area. …”
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The spatiotemporal trajectory of US agricultural irrigation withdrawal during 1981–2015 by Ruijie Zeng, Weiwei Ren

“…In this study, we investigated the agricultural water withdrawal landscape of the contiguous United States (CONUS) over 1981–2015, assessed its spatial and temporal changes, and analyzed the factors driving the changes. …”
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Skin lipids alone enable conspecific tracking in an invasive reptile, the Argentine black and white tegu lizard (Salvator merianae). by M Rockwell Parker, Eric A Tillman, Lauren A Nazarian, Megan L Barlowe, Julianna M Lincoln, Bryan M Kluever

“…The Argentine black and white tegu lizard (Salvator merianae) is a major invasive reptile species in the contiguous United States and is rapidly expanding its range across Florida and the Southeast, in part due to inadequate management strategies and tools. …”
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Seasonal variability of future extreme precipitation and associated trends across the Contiguous U.S. by Ishrat Jahan Dollan, Viviana Maggioni, Jeremy Johnston, Gustavo de A. Coelho, James L. Kinter

“…Specifically, future extreme precipitation is examined in National Climate Assessment (NCA) regions over the Contiguous United States using SSP3-7.0 (Shared Socioeconomic Pathway). …”
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