Office of the Chief Operating Officer
Email:
gmccabe@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
303-236-7278
ORCID:
0000-0002-9258-2997
Location
DFC Bldg 53
Box 25046
Denver Federal Center
Denver
, CO
80225-0046
US
Supervisor:
Matthew P Miller
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This metadata record describes monthly input and output data covering the period 1900-2015 for a water-balance model described in McCabe and Wolock (2011). The input datasets are precipitation (PPT) and air temperature (TAV) from the PRISM group at Oregon State University. The model outputs include estimated potential evapotranspiration (PET), actual evapotranspiration (AET), runoff (RUN) (streamflow per unit area), soil moisture storage (STO), and snowfall (SNO). The datasets are arranged in tables of monthly total or average values measured in millimeters or degrees C and then multiplied by 100. The data are indexed by the identifier PRISMID, which refers to an ASCII raster of cells in an associated file named...
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Abstract (from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL067613/full): This empirical study examines the influence of precipitation, temperature, and antecedent soil moisture on upper Colorado River basin (UCRB) water year streamflow over the past century. While cool season precipitation explains most of the variability in annual flows, temperature appears to be highly influential under certain conditions, with the role of antecedent fall soil moisture less clear. In both wet and dry years, when flow is substantially different than expected given precipitation, these factors can modulate the dominant precipitation influence on streamflow. Different combinations of temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Colorado River,
Drought,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Southwest CASC, All tags...
Water, Coasts and Ice,
drought,
precipitation,
temperature, Fewer tags
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The climate of the North Central U.S. is driven by a combination of factors, including atmospheric circulation patterns, the region’s complex topography which extends from the High Rockies to the Great Plains, and variations in hydrology. Together, these factors determine the sustainability of the region’s ecosystems and the services that they provide communities. In order to understand the vulnerability of the region’s ecosystems to change, it is necessary to have reliable projections of future climate conditions. To address this need, researchers first examined past and present variations in climate and assessed the ability of climate models to effectively project future climate conditions for the region. Second,...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2012,
CASC,
Completed,
Drought,
Drought, All tags...
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
North Central,
North Central CASC,
Projects by Region,
States,
U.S. States,
United States, Fewer tags
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This NetCDF represents the monthly inputs and outputs from a United States Geological Survey water-balance model (McCabe and Wolock, 2011) for the conterminous United States for the period 1895-01-01 to 2020-12-31. The source data used to run the water balance model is based on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's(Vose and others, 2020) ClimGrid data for precipitation and temperature. This NetCDF contains the following monthly inputs: temperature (degrees Celsius) and precipitation (millimeters, mm) and the following outputs (all in mm): runoff, soil moisture storage, actual evapotranspiration, potential evapotranspiration, snow water equivalent, and snowfall. The spatial reference for this data...
Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE,
CONUS,
Climatology,
EVAPORATION,
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, All tags...
FRESHWATER RUNOFF,
Geography,
Hydrology,
POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION,
PRECIPITATION,
PRECIPITATION AMOUNT,
RUNOFF,
SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT,
SOIL MOISTURE,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water Resources,
actual evapotranspiration,
conterminous United States,
environment,
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters,
liquid content of surface snow,
liquid content of water,
potential evapotranspiration,
precipitation,
precipitation amount,
runoff amount,
snow water equivalent,
snowfall,
snowfall amount,
soil moisture storage,
surface water runoff,
temperature,
water actual evaporation amount,
water balance model,
water potential evaporation amount, Fewer tags
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Climate displays an often-unrecognized order in both time and space. What may appear as a random sequence of precipitation at a point or within a watershed is actually the local expression of a broad integrated system of weather processes that are active on scales of 100’s to 1000’s of kilometers. Only when climate forcings and hydrologic responses are considered from a regional perspective does the order become evident. Understanding these regional processes provides a sound basis for national, regional, and local hydrologic analysis, resource management, and hazard assessment/mitigation. The objectives of this research are (1) to identify and quantify relations between large-scale atmospheric circulation and sea-surface...
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