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Title:

Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP) Reference Data Set (GREDS)
USGS Open-File Report 94-388

Source:

U.S. Geological Survey
Information Services
Box 25046
MS 517
Denver, CO 80225
phone: 303-202-4610

Description:

This CD-ROM contains a variety of digital environmental data for the Mississippi River Basin. This includes: an inventory of stream gages, reservoir gages, and meteorlogical stations; a 500-meter-resolution digital elevation model; gird-node locations for the Eta numerical weather-prediction model; and digital map data sets of geology, land use, streams, large reservoirs, average annual runoff, average annual precipitation, average annual temperature, average annual heating and cooling degree days, hydrologic units, and state and county boundaries. Also included are digital index maps for LANDSAT scenes, and for the U.S. Geological Survey 1:250,000, 1:100,000, and 1:24,000-scale map series.

All of the data sets cover the Mississippi River Basin, and several cover all of the Continental United States. Several data sets also cover part of southern Canada.