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Western US 30m Raw Heatload Values

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2020-08-19T00:00:00Z
Heat load, a unitless value from approximately 0 (low incident radiation) to around 1 (high incident radiation), is calculated using aspect, slope, and latitude (McCune and Dylan 2002 ).

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Complete Metadata

bureauCode 
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  "010:12"
]
identifier http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_5ab2940ce4b081f61ab45ff7
spatial -133.425542796, 27.4387277062, -101.448731733, 52.0089108418
theme 
[
  "Geospatial"
]

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