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Monthly Water Balance Model Futures

Domain: Hydrology

Variables:
▶ Actual evapotranspiration (AET); Potential evapotranspiration (PET); Runoff (RO); Streamflow (STRM); Soil moisture storage (SOIL);
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Spatial Resolution: 1:100,000

Temporal Frequency: monthly

Temporal Coverage: 1949 - 2099

Spatial Extent: CONUS

Source: USGS

Update Type: Static

Access: sciencebase.gov NC

Description:

A monthly water balance model (MWBM) was driven with precipitation and temperature using a station-based dataset for current conditions (1949 to 2010) and selected statistically-downscaled general circulation models (GCMs) for current and future conditions (1950 to 2099) across the conterminous United States (CONUS) using hydrologic response units from the Geospatial Fabric for National Hydrologic Modeling (Viger and Bock, 2014). Six MWBM output variables (actual evapotranspiration (AET), potential evapotranspiration (PET), runoff (RO), streamflow (STRM), soil moisture storage (SOIL), and snow water equivalent (SWE)) and the two MWBM input variables (atmospheric temperature (TAVE) and precipitation (PPT)) were summarized for hydrologic response units and aggregated at points of interest on a stream network. Results were organized into the Monthly Water Balance Model Futures database, and accessed through the Monthly Water Balance Model Futures Portal.

Citation:

Bock, A.R., Hay, L.E., Markstrom, S.L., and Atkinson, R.D., 2018, Monthly Water Balance Model Futures (ver. 3.0, September 2018): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7VD6WJQ