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High Plains/Ogallala Water Table Elevations Annual Estimates

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Created:	Jul 20, 2023 at 4:43 p.m.
Last updated:	Jul 20, 2023 at 5:49 p.m.
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Abstract

This dataset consists of water table elevation estimates for the High Plains (Ogallala) Aquifer from 1935 to 2016, updated in 2017 using methods described in the following paper:

Haacker, E.M., Kendall, A.D. and Hyndman, D.W., 2016. Water level declines in the High Plains Aquifer: Predevelopment to resource senescence. Groundwater, 54(2), pp.231-242.

The dataset also includes derived aquifer boundaries and aquifer base elevation, which can be used to derive an estimate of saturated thickness. In addition, county-level information for average water tables, water in storage (saturated thickness x area x specific yield), and variance is included in an Excel file. Please see the ReadMe tab in the Excel file for more information.

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Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:

WGS 84 EPSG:4326

Coordinate Units:

Decimal degrees

Place/Area Name:

High Plains

North Latitude

43.5800°

East Longitude

-96.2600°

South Latitude

31.7400°

West Longitude

-105.5400°

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README.txt

This data was created in 2017 as an update using methods from the following paper:

Haacker, E.M., Kendall, A.D. and Hyndman, D.W., 2016. Water level declines in the High Plains Aquifer: Predevelopment to resource senescence. Groundwater, 54(2), pp.231-242.

All length units are in meters, and you can find the projection information in any of the .prj files, it should all be consistent. Also note that not all measurement data for 2016 had been uploaded when I did this update, so I would trust it somewhat less than the 2015 estimates.

In addition to water table elevation and saturated thickness, this folder contains the following: 

An estimated % change per year based on the rate of change in 2005-2015

The aquifer base elevation I used, which is compiled from multiple sources including USGS, the Kansas Geological Survey, and the Texas GAMs

The aquifer extent I used, which is derived from Sharon Qi's 2010 USGS digitization of the aquifer boundary

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The following web services are available for data contained in this resource. Geospatial Feature and Raster data are made available via Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services. The provided links can be copied and pasted into GIS software to access these data. Multidimensional NetCDF data are made available via a THREDDS Data Server using remote data access protocols such as OPeNDAP. Other data services may be made available in the future to support additional data types.

How to Cite

Haacker, E., A. D. Kendall, D. W. Hyndman (2023). High Plains/Ogallala Water Table Elevations Annual Estimates, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/7d925c7944244032af98c9ed20c22db6

This resource is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA.

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