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A geospatial dataset providing first-order indicators of wildfire risks to water supply in Canada and Alaska
- Source :
- Data in Brief, Data in Brief, Vol 29, Iss, Pp-(2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- First-order, high level indicators of wildfire risk to water resources are paramount to understand growing wildfire-related water security challenges in Canada and Alaska. Information pertaining to forest cover, fire activity, water availability, and location of populated places was collected from multiple institutional sources. Manual and semi-automated processes were used to clean disparate source data and create four harmonized geospatial layers whose content was summarized for each of the 1468 existing sub-sub watersheds covering Alaska and Canada. The final dataset provides a master layer based on sub-sub-watershed boundaries that contains relevant information to create spatial indicators of wildfire risk to water security. These can be used to identify potentially at-risk regions in high-latitude watersheds of North America. The dataset can be further used within a larger, general risk assessment framework considering other environmental stressors to water security, including climate change and population growth. The dataset described herein was used to make a figure in the manuscript “Wildfire impacts on hydrologic ecosystem services in North American high-latitude forests: A scoping review” by Robinne et al. [1]. Keywords: Wildfires, Water supplies, Ecosystem services, Post-fire hydrology, Forest watershed, Watershed disturbance
- Subjects :
- Geospatial analysis
Post-fire hydrology
Forest watershed
Water supply
Poison control
Climate change
Watershed disturbance
lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
computer.software_genre
Ecosystem services
Wildfires
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Population growth
lcsh:Science (General)
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
Multidisciplinary
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Water resources
Water supplies
Geography
Water security
Environmental Science
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business
computer
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
lcsh:Q1-390
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Details
- ISSN :
- 23523409
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Data in brief
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....35642d3092404ed48cef2bfa07474b5d