John (Ryan) R Banta

The importance of parameterization when simulating the hydrologic response of vegetative land-use change, SWAT simulation

The Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was used to simulate the hydrologic response of a watershed in south-central Texas within the Honey Creek State Natural Area for the time period 2001 to 2010; the simulation was focused on simulating the hydrologic outcomes of brush management. Specifically a SWAT2012 (Arnold et al., 2012) model of the watershed was built using the ArcSWAT tool (Winchell et al., 2007). Included are the necessary files and processing scripts for users to recreate the Monte Carlo and global sensitivity analysis results presented in the publication. Note the actual outputs from the analyses are not included herein because of storage size limitations. The results of the SWAT modeling are presented...

Tags: Comal County, Honey Creek State Natural Area, Land Use Change, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Water Resources, hydrology, Fewer tags

Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program-Geospatial and Tabular Datasets Used in the Compilation of Physiography, Geology, Hydrogeology, and Water Quality Data for the Fort Bliss, Dona Ana Range, McGregor Range, and White Sands Missile Range Area, Texas and New Mexico, 1905 to 2019

The Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act was established to systematically assess priority aquifers along the U.S.-Mexico international boundary. The priority aquifers that were specified include the Hueco-Mesilla Bolsons aquifer in Texas and New Mexico and its counterpart in Mexico, the Conejos-Médanos Aquifer system, and the Santa Cruz and San Pedro aquifers in Arizona (Texas Water Development Board, 2019). The Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program (TAAP) was started in 2009 and is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona Water Resources Research Center, New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute, and the Texas Water Resources Institute (U.S. Geological Survey, 2018) to better understand...

Tags: Catron County, City of Alamogordo, City of Anthony, City of Carrizozo, City of El Paso, All tags... City of Elephant Butte, City of Las Cruces, City of Socorro, City of Truth or Consequences, Dona Ana County, El Paso County, Geography, Hudspeth County, Hydrology, Lincoln County, New Mexico, Otero County, Rio Grande, Sierra County, Socorro County, Texas, Torrance County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, digital elevation model, elevation, geology, geospatial analysis, geospatial dataset, groundwater, hydrology, land use and land cover, spatial analysis, stream-gage measurement, surface water, water quality, Fewer tags