Detect Megaregional Communities Using Network Science Analytics by Ming Zhang, Bolin Lan

“…This study aims to bridge urban science and megaregion research by applying network science’s community detection algorithm to explore the spatial pattern of megaregions in the contiguous United States. A network file was constructed consisting of county centroids as nodes, the direct links between each pair of counties as edges, and inter-county commuting flows as the weight to capture spatial interactions. …”
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A commercial flight track database for upper tropospheric aircraft emission studies over the USA and southern Canada by Donald P. Garber, Patrick Minnis, P. Kay Costulis

“…A new air traffic database over the contiguous United States of America (USA) and southern Canada has been developed from a commercially available real-time product for 2001-2003 for all non-military IFR flights above 25,000 ft. …”
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The potential of urban irrigation for counteracting carbon-climate feedback by Peiyuan Li, Zhi-Hua Wang, Chenghao Wang

“…In this study, we investigate the impact of urban irrigation over green spaces on ambient temperatures and CO2 exchange across major cities in the contiguous United States. Our modeling results indicate that the carbon release from urban ecosystem respiration is reduced by evaporative cooling in humid climate, but promoted in arid/semi-arid regions due to increased soil moisture. …”
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Assessing the sensitivity of aerosol mass budget and effective radiative forcing to horizontal grid spacing in E3SMv1 using a regional refinement approach by J. Li, K. Zhang, T. Hassan, S. Zhang, P.-L. Ma, B. Singh, Q. Yan, Q. Yan, H. Huang

“…A comparison of the present-day and pre-industrial simulations indicates that, for this contiguous United States domain, the higher-resolution increases ERF<span class="inline-formula">_aer</span> at the top of the model by about 12 %, which is mainly attributed to the strengthened indirect effect associated with aerosol–cloud interactions.…”
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Data sharing for conservation: A standardized checklist of US native tree species and threat assessments to prioritize and coordinate action by Christina Carrero, Emily Beckman Bruns, Anne Frances, Diana Jerome, Wesley Knapp, Abby Meyer, Ray Mims, David Pivorunas, DeQuantarius Speed, Amanda Treher Eberly, Murphy Westwood

“…We present an updated checklist of all tree species native to the contiguous United States, their state distribution, extinction risk, and most common threats. …”
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Nest observations reveal hygienic nest architecture and behavior in an Arctic bumble bee species by Leah Valdes, Hailey Scofield

“…These gaps are especially wide for Arctic species, as prior bumble bee research focuses disproportionately on the contiguous United States, southern Canada, and Europe. Here, we describe the nesting habitat, spatial distribution, and nest architecture of 10 frigid bumble bee (Bombus frigidus) nests found in the low Arctic in western Alaska. …”
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Impact of ASOS Real-Time Quality Control on Convective Gust Extremes in the USA by Nicholas John Cook

“…Most damage to buildings across the contiguous United States, in terms of number and total cost, is caused by gusts in convective events associated with thunderstorms. …”
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Remotely sensed above-ground storage tank dataset for object detection and infrastructure assessment by Celine Robinson, Kyle Bradbury, Mark E. Borsuk

“…This dataset includes geospatial coordinates, border vertices, diameters, and orthorectified imagery for over 130,000 ASTs from five labeled classes (external floating roof tanks, closed roof tanks, spherical pressure tanks, sedimentation tanks, and water towers) across the contiguous United States. This dataset can be used directly or to train machine learning algorithms for large-scale risk and hazard assessment, production and capacity estimation, and infrastructure evaluation.…”
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An Introduction to USGS Topo Maps by Hartwig Hochmair, Adam Benjamin

“…Unlike traditional topographic maps, the US Topo product is automatically generated from national map databases with topographic maps and produced every three years for all 48 of the contiguous United States, Hawaii, and the United States territories. …”
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Recent droughts in the United States are among the fastest-developing of the last seven decades by Virginia Iglesias, William R. Travis, Jennifer K. Balch

“…We address this question by evaluating drought intensification rates for the contiguous United States and find that median drought onset rates did not change significantly in 1951–2021. …”
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Reduced Lung Cancer Mortality With Lower Atmospheric Pressure by Ray M. Merrill, Aaron Frutos

“…The current study assessed the influence of county-level atmospheric pressure (a measure reflecting both altitude and temperature) on age-adjusted lung cancer mortality rates in the contiguous United States, with 2 forms of spatial regression. …”
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Analysis of Flood Fatalities in the United States, 1959–2019 by Zhongyu Han, Hatim O. Sharif

“…This study examines flood fatalities reported in the contiguous United States (US) from 1959 to 2019. The last two decades witnessed major flood events, changing the ranking of the top states compared to previous studies, with the exception of Texas, which had significantly higher flood-related fatalities than any other state. …”
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Unlocking Drone Potential in the Pharma Supply Chain: A Hybrid Machine Learning and GIS Approach by Raj Bridgelall

“…The results show that by starting a service in only nine metropolitan areas across four regions of the contiguous United States, drones with a robust 400-mile range can initially move more than 28% of the weight of all pharmaceuticals. …”
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Phenological Mapping of Invasive Insects: Decision Support for Surveillance and Management by Brittany S. Barker, Leonard Coop

“…We compare three different types of phenological maps and provide examples using outputs of web-based platforms that are presently available for real-time mapping of invasive insects for the contiguous United States. Next, we summarize sources of climate data available for real-time mapping, applications of phenological maps, strategies for balancing model complexity and simplicity, data sources and methods for validating spatial phenology models, and potential sources of model error and uncertainty. …”
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Does racism have inertia? A study of historic redlining’s impact on present-day associations between development and air pollution in US cities by Patrick Trent Greiner, Rachel G McKane

“…We explore how Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) scores of the 1930s impact 2010 and 2015 inhalable particulate matter (PM _10 ) concentrations for 15,232 census tracts, clustered in 196 cities throughout the contiguous United States. Using areal apportionment, we assign a HOLC score to housing tracts and construct hierarchical linear models to examine the relationship between the policy practice of redlining, PM pollution, and urban economic development. …”
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Analysis of 220 Years of Floodplain Population Dynamics in the US at Different Spatial Scales by Firoza Akhter, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Luigia Brandimarte

“…In this study, we explore the long-term trends of floodplain population dynamics at different spatial scales in the contiguous United States (U.S.). We exploit different types of datasets from 1790–2010—i.e., decadal spatial distribution for the population density in the US, global floodplains dataset, large-scale data of flood occurrence and damage, and structural and nonstructural flood protection measures for the US. …”
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National patterns in environmental injustice and inequality: outdoor NO2 air pollution in the United States. by Lara P Clark, Dylan B Millet, Julian D Marshall

“…We describe spatial patterns in environmental injustice and inequality for residential outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations in the contiguous United States. Our approach employs Census demographic data and a recently published high-resolution dataset of outdoor NO2 concentrations. …”
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Projection of Future Heat Waves in the United States. Part I: Selecting a Climate Model Subset by Javad Shafiei Shiva, David G. Chandler

“…The widespread increase in global temperature is driving more frequent and more severe local heatwaves within the contiguous United States (CONUS). General circulation models (GCMs) show increasing, but spatially uneven trends in heatwave properties. …”
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Data-Driven Deployment of Cargo Drones: A U.S. Case Study Identifying Key Markets and Routes by Raj Bridgelall

“…The algorithm identifies four commodity categories contributing to more than one-third of the value transported by aircraft across the contiguous United States, yet only 5% of the weight. The workflow highlights 8 out of 129 regional locations that moved more than 20% of the weight of those four commodity categories. …”
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Modeling County-Level Spatio-Temporal Mortality Rates Using Dynamic Linear Models by Zoe Gibbs, Chris Groendyke, Brian Hartman, Robert Richardson

“…We show that these priors, commonly used for areal data, are appropriate for modeling county-level spatial trends in mortality data covering the contiguous United States. We find that mortality rates of neighboring counties are highly correlated. …”
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