Geospatial modeling of near subsurface temperatures of the contiguous United States for assessment of materials degradation by Jonathan E. Gordon, Olatunde D. Akanbi, Deepa C. Bhuvanagiri, Hope E. Omodolor, Vibha Mandayam, Roger H. French, Jeffrey M. Yarus, Erika I. Barcelos

“…This study maps subsurface temperatures across the contiguous United States for depths from 50 to 3500 m, comparing linear interpolation, gradient boosting (LightGBM), neural networks, and a novel hybrid approach combining linear interpolation with LightGBM. …”
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A machine learning interpretation of the correlation between poverty and air pollution in the contiguous United States by Sajeev Magesh, Kevin Geng

“…Abstract The correlation between poverty and air pollution in the contiguous United States is a widely debated issue, often suggesting that impoverished areas suffer higher pollution levels due to socioeconomic disparities. …”
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Dynamical Downscaling of Climate Change Impacts on Wind Energy Resources in the Contiguous United States by Using a Limited-Area Model with Scale-Selective Data Assimilation by Bin Liu, Katelyn B. Costa, Lian Xie, Fredrick H. M. Semazzi

“…By using a limited-area model (LAM) in combination with the scale-selective data assimilation (SSDA) approach, wind energy resources in the contiguous United States (CONUS) were downscaled from IPCC CCSM3 global model projections for both current and future climate conditions. …”
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Smartirrigation Apps: Urban Turf by Haimanote Bayabil, Kati W Migliaccio, Jose J.H. Debastiani Andreis, Clyde W. Fraisse, Kelly T. Morgan, George Vellidis

“…The app was only available for Florida and Georgia, but recently, we have made improvements to the app and made it available to any location throughout the contiguous United States. The 7-page major revision, written by Haimanote K. …”
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DeepBase: A Deep Learning-based Daily Baseflow Dataset across the United States by Parnian Ghaneei, Hamid Moradkhani

“…Recognizing the shortage in accessible high quality daily baseflow data, our objective is to generate a daily baseflow dataset across the contiguous United States (CONUS) for 1661 basins from 1981 to 2022. …”
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Smartirrigation Apps: Urban Turf by Haimanote Bayabil, Kati W Migliaccio, Jose J.H. Debastiani Andreis, Clyde W. Fraisse, Kelly T. Morgan, George Vellidis

“…The app was only available for Florida and Georgia, but recently, we have made improvements to the app and made it available to any location throughout the contiguous United States. The 7-page major revision, written by Haimanote K. …”
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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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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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Variation in Photovoltaic Energy Rating and Underlying Drivers Across Modules and Climates by Kevin S. Anderson, Joshua S. Stein, Marios Theristis

“…This study uses the Climate Specific Energy Rating (CSER) and specific yield metrics as criteria to determine how different PV modules perform across climates in the contiguous United States (CONUS) and identifies the underlying drivers behind the observed variations. …”
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Diurnal Variation of Seasonal Precipitation over the CONUS: A Comparison of Gauge Observations with TRMM Data by Liming Zhu, Yu Zhao, Xiaoping Rui, Qingwei Wei

“…According to these maps, the diurnal variation of precipitation over the contiguous United States (CONUS) presents seasonal variability in both gauge observations and TRMM data. …”
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High-Resolution Estimation of Daily PM_2.5 Levels in the Contiguous US Using Bi-LSTM with Attention by Zhongying Wang, James L. Crooks, Elizabeth Anne Regan, Morteza Karimzadeh

“…Using the model, we have produced a comprehensive dataset of PM_2.5 estimates from 2005 to 2021 for the contiguous United States and are releasing an open-source framework to ensure reproducibility and facilitate further adaptation in air quality studies.…”
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Magnetotelluric Sampling and Geoelectric Hazard Estimation: Are National‐Scale Surveys Sufficient? by Benjamin S. Murphy, Greg M. Lucas, Jeffrey J. Love, Anna Kelbert, Paul A. Bedrosian, E. Joshua Rigler

“…For electrical transmission networks in each of four focus regions across the contiguous United States, we perform two parallel band‐limited (101–103 s) hazard analyses: one using only USArray‐style (∼70‐km station spacing) MT data, and one incorporating denser (≪70‐km station spacing) MT data. …”
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The March 1940 Superstorm: Geoelectromagnetic Hazards and Impacts on American Communication and Power Systems by Jeffrey J. Love, E. Joshua Rigler, Michael D. Hartinger, Greg M. Lucas, Anna Kelbert, Paul A. Bedrosian

“…Abstract An analysis is made of geophysical records of the 24 March 1940, magnetic storm and related reports of interference on long‐line communication and power systems across the contiguous United States and, to a lesser extent, Canada. Most long‐line system interference occurred during local daytime, after the second of two storm sudden commencements and during the early part of the storm's main phase. …”
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Short‐Term Memory and Regional Climate Drive City‐Scale Water Demand in the Contiguous US by Wenjin Hao, Andrea Cominola, Andrea Castelletti

“…In this paper, we explore the complex web of causality between climatic and socio‐demographic determinants, and urban water demand patterns across the Contiguous United States (CONUS). We develop a causal discovery framework based on a Neural Granger Causal (NGC) model, a machine learning approach that identifies nonlinear causal relationships between determinants and water demand, enabling comprehensive water demand determinants discovery and water demand forecasting across the CONUS. …”
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Modified GIC Estimation Using 3‐D Earth Conductivity by Anna Kelbert, Greg M. Lucas

“…We estimate that the proposed modified 3‐D GIC modeling approach produces GIC values that are well within 50% of those obtained with the full‐scale power line integration of spatially variable geoelectric fields, for storms comparable in scale to the 2003 Halloween storm, all geological structures, and power lines located in the contiguous United States and other low‐ to middle‐latitude regions.…”
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Achieving water budget closure through physical hydrological process modelling: insights from a large-sample study by X. Zheng, D. Liu, S. Huang, H. Wang, X. Meng

“…We examined the efficiency of the PHPM-MDCF and the distribution of residuals across 475 contiguous United States (CONUS) basins selected by hydrological simulation reliability. …”
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Multi-hazard risk in socially vulnerable communities across the United States by Leslie Sanchez, Paul R Armsworth, Jasmine E Bruno, Sebastian Espinoza, Kathleen Galvin, Varsha Vijay, Travis Warziniack

“…This study offers a more comprehensive understanding of the national scope and underlying drivers of compounding environmental risks from five hazards (water shortage, air pollution, wildfire, flooding, and impaired water quality) in socially vulnerable communities in the contiguous United States. By pairing census tract-level Social Vulnerability Index data from the Centers for Disease Control with hazard exposure data, we find that over 11 percent of the population—37 million people—is at high risk from multiple hazards. …”
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Mapping a Magnetic Superstorm: March 1989 Geoelectric Hazards and Impacts on United States Power Systems by Jeffrey J. Love, Greg M. Lucas, E. Joshua Rigler, Benjamin S. Murphy, Anna Kelbert, Paul A. Bedrosian

“…Abstract A study is made of the relations between geomagnetic and geoelectric field variation, Earth‐surface impedance, and operational interference (“anomalies”) experienced on electric‐power systems across the contiguous United States during the 13–14 March, 1989, magnetic storm. …”
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Climate change hazard index reveals combined risks to United States drinking water utilities by Zia J Lyle, Jeanne M VanBriesen, Constantine Samaras

“…We use climate change mid-century projections to assess seven hazards for 42 786 utility systems (serving 283 million people) across the contiguous United States and develop a combined climate hazard index that allows for risk comparisons. …”
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Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory? by M. A. Farmani, A. Behrangi, A. Behrangi, A. Gupta, A. Tavakoly, A. Tavakoly, M. Geheran, G.-Y. Niu

“…We compare SMMs computed from various Noah-MP configurations against that derived from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L3 soil moisture and in situ measurements from the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) from the years 2015 to 2019 over the contiguous United States (CONUS). The results suggest that (1) soil hydraulics plays a dominant role and the Van Genuchten hydraulic scheme reduces the overestimation of the long-term surface SMM produced by the Brooks–Corey scheme, which is commonly used in LSMs; (2) explicitly representing surface ponding enhances SMM for both the surface layer and the root zone; and (3) representing preferential flow improves the overall representation of soil moisture dynamics. …”
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