Mean-annual and mean-seasonal water-budget estimates from a Soil-Water-Balance model of the Appalachian Plateaus, 1980 through 2011

As part of the U.S. Geological Survey Groundwater Resources Program study of Appalachian Plateaus aquifers, mean-annual and mean-seasonal water-budget estimates for the period 1980 through 2011 were determined for a 162,000 square-mile area covering parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Mean-annual and mean-seasonal precipitation, recharge, and actual evapotranspiration (ET) estimates were derived from annual and monthly Soil-Water-Balance (SWB) model (McCoy and others, 2015; Westenbroek and others, 2010) output and compiled in a geodatabase. Precipitation estimates from the Appalachian Plateaus SWB model were derived from daily [...]