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Daily streamflow performance benchmark defined by the standard statistical suite (v1.0) for the National Water Model Retrospective (v2.1) at benchmark streamflow locations for the conterminous United States (ver 3.0, March 2023)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1983-10-01
End Date
2016-12-31
Revision
2023-03-30

Citation

Towler, E., Foks, S.S., Staub, L.E., Dickinson, J.E., Dugger, A.L., Essaid, H.I., Gochis, D., Hodson, T.O., Viger, R.J., and Zhang, Y., 20220711, Daily streamflow performance benchmark defined by the standard statistical suite (v1.0) for the National Water Model Retrospective (v2.1) at benchmark streamflow locations for the conterminous United States (ver 3.0, March 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QT1KV7.

Summary

This data release contains the standard statistical suite (version 1.0) daily streamflow performance benchmark results for the National Water Model Retrospective (v2.1) at streamflow benchmark locations defined by Foks and others (2022). Modeled hourly timesteps were converted to mean daily timesteps. Model error was determined by evaluating predicted daily mean streamflow versus observed daily mean streamflow using various statistics; the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), the Kling-Gupta efficiency (KGE), the logNSE, the Pearson correlation coefficient, the Spearman correlation coefficient, the ratio of the standard deviation, the percent bias, the percent bias in flow duration curve midsegment slope, the percent bias in the flow duration [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Sydney S Foks
Originator :
Erin Towler, Sydney S Foks, Leah E Staub, Jesse E Dickinson, Aubrey L Dugger, Hedeff I Essaid, David J Gochis, Roland Viger, Timothy O Hodson, Yongxin Zhang
Metadata Contact :
Sydney S Foks
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
Integrated Modeling & Prediction Division
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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standard_DR_nwm_metadata_V3.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		35.94 KB application/fgdc+xml
standard_suite_v1_nwmv2d1_V2.csv
“results” 		461.71 KB text/csv
version_history_nwm.txt 4.33 KB text/plain
KGE_gumbootStats_nwmv21.csv 657.74 KB text/csv

Purpose

These data were created to benchmark hydrologic model performance on the basis of daily streamflow for the U.S. Geological Survey Hydro-Terrestrial Earth System Testbed (HyTEST) Project within the Integrated Water Program (IWP).

Rights

Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data for other purposes, nor on all computer systems, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.

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Provenance

Revision 2.0 by Sydney Foks on December 22, 2022 and revision 3.0 by Leah Staub on March 30 2023. To review the changes that were made, see “version_history_nwm.txt” in the attached files section. Source data include daily mean streamflow observations from the National Water Information System (NWIS) database and runoff predictions from the National Water Model version 2.1 retrospective simulation (https://registry.opendata.aws/nwm-archive/) that were aggregated from an hourly timestep into daily mean values. Daily streamflow errors were calculated by comparing predicted and observed mean daily flow.

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