Soil Data Explorer - INTERMITTENT WATER

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the INTERMITTENT WATER soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of INTERMITTENT WATER, and applied along 1-cm thick depth slices. Solid lines are the slice-wise median, bounded on either side by the interval defined by the slice-wise 5th and 95th percentiles. The median is the value that splits the data in half. Five percent of the data are less than the 5th percentile, and five percent of the data are greater than the 95th percentile. Values along the right hand side y-axis describe the proportion of pedon data that contribute to aggregate values at this depth. For example, a value of "90%" at 25cm means that 90% of the pedons correlated to INTERMITTENT WATER were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the INTERMITTENT WATER soil series. Monthly precipitation (PPT) and potential evapotranspiration (PET) have been estimated from the 50th percentile of gridded values (PRISM 1981-2010) overlapping with the extent of SSURGO map units containing each series as a major component. Monthly PET values were estimated using the method of Thornthwaite (1948). These (and other) climatic parameters are calculated with each SSURGO refresh and provided by the fetchOSD function of the soilDB package. Representative water storage values (“AWC” in the figures) were derived from SSURGO by taking the 50th percentile of profile-total water storage (sum[awc_r * horizon thickness]) for each soil series. Note that this representation of “water storage” is based on the average ability of most plants to extract soil water between 15 bar (“permanent wilting point”) and 1/3 bar (“field capacity”) matric potential. Soil moisture state can be roughly interpreted as “dry” when storage is depleted, “moist” when storage is between 0mm and AWC, and “wet” when there is a surplus. Clearly there are a lot of assumptions baked into this kind of monthly water balance. This is still a work in progress.

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Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the INTERMITTENT WATER series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the INTERMITTENT WATER series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

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Geomorphic description summaries for the INTERMITTENT WATER series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Small Shannon entropy values suggest relatively consistent geomorphic association, while larger values suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with INTERMITTENT WATER share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the INTERMITTENT WATER series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the INTERMITTENT WATER series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Shannon entropy values close to 0 represent soil series with relatively consistent geomorphic association, while values close to 1 suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 2D hillslope position figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D hills figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with INTERMITTENT WATER, arranged according to family differentiae. Hovering over a series name will print full classification and a small sketch from the OSD. Source: snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

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Block Diagrams

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Map Units

Map units containing INTERMITTENT WATER as a major component. Limited to 250 records.

Map Unit Name	Symbol	Map Unit Area (ac)	Map Unit Key	National Map Unit Symbol	Soil Survey Area	Publication Date	Map Scale
Intermittent Water	IW	715	1547157	1nxy9	co025	1965	1:15840
Intermittent Water	130	857	1414770	1jh5r	co075	1974	1:24000
Intermittent Water	I-W	1686	1416083	1jjk3	co095	1971	1:20000
Intermittent water	I-W	530	1416091	1jjkc	co115	1969	1:15840
Intermittent water	IW	637	815471	wckj	co632	1968	1:24000
Intermittent water	INT	5	1857268	20bmw	ia001	1976	1:15840
Intermittent water soils	INT	42	1903211	21wfx	ia007	1970	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	7	1423137	1jrwn	ia009	1982	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	26	2550312	1sj3r	ia015	1977	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	6	697186	rdgw	ia021	1973	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	242	1406710	1j6sr	ia049	1980	1:15840
INTERMITTENT WATER	INT	1	2027566	261vc	ia051	1988	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	590	622310	nwkj	ia071	1968	1:20000
Intermittent water	INT	72	1426113	1jvzn	ia073	1983	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	2	1600138	1qq2c	ia077	1968	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	13	975663	11r80	ia079	1984	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	39	848251	xgny	ia081	1987	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	135	1604085	1qv5p	ia085	1971	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	99	1721656	1vsj9	ia109	1980	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	60	1681097	1tf9y	ia111	1976	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	46	1601878	1qrwh	ia119	1973	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	28	1903204	21wfp	ia121	1968	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	639	1454865	1ktx4	ia129	1979	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	105	1480435	1lphz	ia137	1987	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	3	1712751	1vh81	ia141	1977	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	43	1605202	1qwbq	ia145	1975	1:20000
Intermittent water	INT	55	1723357	1vv95	ia147	1973	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	16	1865939	20mnl	ia149	1972	1:20000
Intermittent water	INT	144	703585	rm49	ia155	1986	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	5	1726187	1vy7g	ia161	1975	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	148	1473844	1lgnc	ia167	1987	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	13	1428044	1jxzy	ia169	1981	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	19	1710691	1vf3l	ia175	1975	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	205	1697397	1tz8r	ia181	1975	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	30	1531385	1ndjj	ia189	1984	1:15840
Intermittent water	INT	18	742577	sxq3	ia197	1988	1:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the INTERMITTENT WATER soil series. To learn more about how this distribution was mapped, or to compare this soil series extent to others, use the Series Extent Explorer (SEE) application. Source: generalization of SSURGO geometry (updated 2023-10-04).