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    "tag": 15049,
    "title": "Model parameter input files to compare effects of stream discharge scenarios on sediment deposition and concentrations around coral reefs off west Maui, Hawaii",
    "pubdate": "20230222",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI: 10.5066\/P914LMK2",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/DataReleases\/ScienceBase\/DR_P914LMK2\/WestMauiUSACE_CircSed_modeling_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "This dataset consists of physics-based Delft3D model and Delwaq model input files used in modeling sediment deposition and concentrations around the coral reefs of west Maui, Hawaii. The Delft3D models were used to simulate waves and currents under small (SC1) and large (\u2018SC2\u2019) wave conditions for current stream discharge (\u2018Alt1\u2019) and stream discharge with watershed restoration (\u2018Alt3\u2019). Delft3D model results were subsequently used as forcing conditions for Delwaq models to simulate sediment transport and dispersion. The Delwaq models were used to simulate sediment transport and concentrations under the same two wave and stream discharge scenarios. The Delwaq models were run using forcing conditions generated by the corresponding Delft3D models. These input files accompany the modeling conducted for the following publication: Storlazzi, C.D., Cheriton, O.M., Cronin, K.M., van der Heijden, L.H., Winter, G., Rosenberger, K.J., Logan, J.B., and McCall, R.T., 2023, Observations of coastal circulation, waves, and sediment transport along West Maui, Hawai\u02bbi (November 2017\u2013March 2018), and modeling effects of potential watershed restoration on decreasing sediment loads to adjacent coral reefs: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2022\u20131121, 73 p., https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3133\/ofr20221121.",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Winter, Gundula",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Antol\u00ednez, Jose A. A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Storlazzi, Curt D.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "McCall, Robert T.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1799",
            "name": "coastal processes",
            "scope": "Processes unique to coastal areas including longshore transport, beach erosion, storm surge, shoreline change, delta formation, barrier island migration, beach stabilization by vegetation"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "531",
            "name": "hazards",
            "scope": "Potential dangers from both natural processes (e.g., earthquakes, floods, and climate change) and human impacts on the environment."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1299",
            "name": "water circulation",
            "scope": "The flow of water in a body of water due to wind or other forces or variations in density or temperature. Use 'water circulation' for situations that are not specifically covered by narrower terms. Use 'ocean circulation' for water circulation in the oceans."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 23,
            "code": "24",
            "name": "Water Column Features",
            "scope": "Includes persistent or regularly occurring waves, layers, water masses, upwellings, stratifications, and fronts that are defined by patterns of water velocity, physical properties, and biogeochemical properties; these features are listed and defined in the Layer, Hydroform, and Biogeochemical Feature layers of the Water Column Component of CMECS. Distributions are records of currents, physical properties, or biogeochemical water properties, often based on shipboard surveys or coastal monitoring programs, and maps of currents or water property climatology, which indicate the expected locations of features under present conditions or apply a classification structure like that of CMECS. Assessments are data that provide information about the ecological or economic values, impacts, drivers, connections, or functions of water column features in their present distributions. Predictions are the results of models projecting future changes to currents or other persistent oceanographic features (for example, clines, stratification, connectivity, linkages, and zones of separation) due to climate change, ice-cap melt, and changing freshwater inputs; models predicting the ecological or economic impacts of these changes; and scenario-testing models comparing ecological or economic outcomes of different management actions."
        },
        {
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            "code": "14",
            "name": "coastal processes",
            "scope": "oceanographic and geologic processes that cause changes to the shoreline and coastal zone."
        },
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            "name": "coral reefs",
            "scope": "aquatic biogenic structures supporting a complex community of organisms with distinct roles in relation to the whole: framework builders (corals), along with binders, bafflers, dwellers, and destroyers."
        },
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            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "527",
            "name": "numerical modeling",
            "scope": "modeling that uses numerical inputs for variables to simulate the behavior of a real-world system; use this term for finite element modeling and computer simulation."
        },
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            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "159",
            "name": "reef",
            "scope": "used for 1) shallow-water biotic reefs such as coral reefs, 2) biotic reefs preserved in the geologic record, and 3) rocky outcrops on the sea floor that create a hazard to navigation."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "28",
            "name": "waves",
            "scope": "used for waves acting as agents of erosion and sediment transport in coastal and nearshore environments."
        }
    ],
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