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NLET - National Load Estimating Tool

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posted on 2023-11-30, 08:11 authored by USDA ARS Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory

NLET (National Load Estimating Tool), a component of the USDA/ARS Soil and Water Hub, is a web-based tool for estimating pollutant loads in watersheds across the contiguous United States. This tool helps visualize the effects of land use patterns, cultivated crops, and conservation practices through graphical representation. Visualizations illustrate baseline and scenario land-use, crops, conservation, runoff, sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and load differences at 50th percentile.

NLET implements an export coefficient approach for predicting the pollutant loads. NLET also addresses the need for a user-friendly, reliable and cost-effective watershed modeling tool.

NLET utilizes the D3.js library for creating an open-source JavaScript and data-driven charts, as well as Mapbox and OpenStreetMap for the Leaflet library, another open-source JavaScript library used for displaying the locations of Hydrologic Unit Catalog (HUC).


Resources in this dataset:

  • Resource Title: Website Pointer to NLET - National Load Estimating Tool .

    File Name: Web Page, url: https://nlet.brc.tamus.edu/

    The web dashboard interface for estimating pollutant loads in watersheds across the contiguous United States.

Funding

Agricultural Research Service,

History

Data contact name

White, Mike

Data contact email

mike.white@ars.usda.gov

Publisher

USDA Agricultural Research Service

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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Geographic location - description

Contiguous United States

ISO Topic Category

  • biota
  • environment
  • geoscientificInformation
  • inlandWaters

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

agricultural policy; sediments; nutrients; pesticides; landscapes; watersheds; groundwater; soil; land use; soil quality; conservation practices; cropping systems; runoff; pollutants; models; soil erosion models; simulation models; water reservoirs; water quality; Internet; pollution load; United States; crops; nitrogen; phosphorus; prediction; cost effectiveness; hydrologic models; computer software

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:18 - Agricultural Research Service

OMB Program Code

  • 005:040 - National Research

ARS National Program Number

  • 211
  • 212
  • 215

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

USDA ARS Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory (2018). NLET - National Load Estimating Tool . USDA Agricultural Research Service.