Understanding and Projecting Changes in Climate, Hydrology, and Ecology in the Great Basin for the Next 30 Years

This project links climate, hydrological, and ecological changes over the next 30 years in a Great Basin watershed. In recent years, climate variability on annual and decadal time scales has been recognized as greater than commonly perceived with increasing impacts on ecosystems and available water resources. Changes in vegetation distribution, composition and productivity resulting from climate change affect plant water use, which in turn can alter stream flow, groundwater and eventually available water resources. To better understand these links, project researchers implemented two computer-based numeric models in the Cleve Creek watershed in the Schell Creek Range, east of Ely, Nevada. The application of the...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CASC, Cleve Creek, Climate, Completed, All tags... Drought, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Federal, Great Basin, Landscapes, Landscapes, NV, Other Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Pinyon/Juniper, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Southwest, Southwest CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, carbon flux, desert shrub, downscale, drought, ecology, evaporation, gcm, great basin, hydrology, lai, maps, model, phenology, plants, pluvial, population growth, precipitation, productivity, rhessys, sage brush, snow, soil moisture, temperature, transpiration, vegetation, water, Fewer tags

Linking climate, hydrology and ecological changes at intermediate timescales in Cleve Creek, Eastern Nevada

This collection contains GSFLOW and R-RHESSys model input and output files. CSC_model_files contains the baseline Cleve Creek model, T-only change model, and T-P change model. Model_results.rar is from R-RHESSYS model of climate projections of drought during the next 30 years (2016-2035) for the Cleve Creek watershed in Nevada. Within the .rar packaging are .dat files that contain outputs including net primary productivity (NPP), leaf area index (LAI), actual evapotranspiration (AET), soil moisture, groundwater level, streamflow, snow pack (as snow water equivalent, SWE). Geographic information: Site is Cleve Creek, a headwaters basin to Spring Valley in Eastern Nevada. Lower left corner of model grid is 701984...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Cleve Creek, Great Basin, Nevada, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Southwest CASC, All tags... Spring Valley, Water, Coasts and Ice, climate change, hydrologic response, modeling, vegetation response, Fewer tags