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RC4USCoast: A river chemistry dataset for regional ocean model applications in the U.S. East, Gulf of Mexico, and West Coasts
- 1Northern Gulf Institute, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA
- 2NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida, USA
- 3NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- 4Department of Geosciences, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- 5Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, USA
- 6Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
- 7Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
- 1Northern Gulf Institute, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA
- 2NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida, USA
- 3NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- 4Department of Geosciences, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- 5Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, USA
- 6Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
- 7Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Abstract. A historical dataset of river chemistry and discharge is presented for 140 monitoring sites along the United States East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Coast from 1950 to 2020. The dataset, referred to here as River Chemistry for the U.S. Coast (RC4USCoast), is mostly derived from the Water Quality Database of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), but also includes river discharge from the USGS’s Surface-Water Monthly Statistics for the Nation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. RC4USCoast provides monthly time series as well as long-term averaged monthly climatological patterns for twenty variables including alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon concentration. It is mainly intended as a data product for regional ocean biogeochemical models and carbon chemistry studies in the U.S. coastal regions. Here we present the method to derive RC4USCoast and briefly describe the river's carbonate chemistry patterns.
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RC1: 'Comment on essd-2022-341', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Jan 2023
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River inputs are critical for studies of the coastal ecosystem. Specifically, the regional modeling community needs standardized data input for both streamflow and water quality. We used Mississippi as an example and examined the data to find it is generally consistent with the river inputs we have composed based on USGS measurements regarding river discharge, nutrient, and carbonate variables. My only suggestion is that currently, the data stopped in 2020, and I would encourage the authors to continuously extend the database in an up-to-date mode.Â
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RC4USCoast: A river chemistry dataset for regional ocean model application in the U.S. East, Gulf of Mexico, and West Coasts from 1950-01-01 to 2020-12-31 (NCEI Accession 0260455) Gomez, F. A., Lee, S. K., Stock, C. A., Ross, A. C., Resplandy, L., Siedlecki, S. A., Tagklis, F., Salisbury, J. E. https://doi.org/10.25921/9jfw-ph50
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