Water availability for ungauged rivers: an integrative, multi-model approach to estimate water availability at ungauged rivers across the United States

There has been increasing attention placed on the need for water availability information at ungauged locations, particularly related to balancing human and ecological needs for water. Critical to assessing water availability is the necessity for daily streamflow time series; however, most of the rivers in the United States are ungauged. This proposal leverages over $1M currently allocated to the USGS National Water Census Program towards developing an integrated modeling approach to estimate daily streamflow at ungauged locations, with the ultimate goal of providing daily streamflow estimates at 160,000 ungauged catchments across the United States. By assembling a diverse and prolific group of international scientists,...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: All Working Groups, Completed, Rivers, Water, Water Resources

Hydroclimate Projections for Select U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Properties - Mountain-Prairie Region, 1951-2099 - Kansas

This data release contains time series and plots summarizing mean monthly temperature and total monthly precipitation, runoff, and streamflow from the U.S. Geological Survey Monthly Water Balance Model at 115 National Wildlife Refuges within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, UT, and WY). The four variables are derived from two sets of statistically-downscaled general circulation models from 1951 through 2099. The three variables were summarized for comparison across four 19-year periods: historic (1951-1969), baseline (1981-1999), 2050 (2041-2059), and 2080 (2071-2089). For each refuge, mean monthly plots, seasonal box plots, and annual envelope plots were produced...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, Kansas, Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge, Marais Des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge, National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, effects of climate change, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Polygon to Polygon

A common workflow in geospatial hydrology is to interpolate geospatial values from one set of polygonal zonal features to another. This can be a computational and time consuming undertaking. This data release provides an easier, faster, and less computationally intensive way, to get a close estimate of the values needed. In the figure below, the red polygon represents a feature where data is needed from the two blue polygons. By using the amount of overlap between the two blue polygons, data for the red polygon can be estimated by rescaling those attributes with a simple weighted mean or other aggregation methods that make sense for the data in question. The files listed in this child item contain a series of...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: biota

Assessing the Drivers of Water Availability for Historic and Future Conditions in the South Central U.S.

Understanding the changes in the distribution and quantity of, and demand for, water resources in response to a changing climate is essential to planning for, and adapting to, future climatic conditions. In order to plan for future conditions and challenges, it is crucial that managers understand the limitations and uncertainties associated with the characterization of these changes when making management decisions. Changes in consumptive water use (water removed without return to a water resources system) will change streamflow, impacting downstream water users, their livelihoods, as well as aquatic ecosystems. Historical changes in available water may be attributed to changes in precipitation; but these changes...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CASC, Completed, Data Visualization & Tools, Data Visualization & Tools, All tags... Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, South Central, South Central CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags

Evaluation of downscaled General Circulation Model (GCM) output for current conditions and associated error in simulated runoff for CONUS

This project will assess the accuracy of climate drivers (precipitation and temperature) from different sources for current and future conditions. The impact of these drivers on hydrologic response will be using the monthly water balance model (MWBM). The methodology for processing and analysis of these datasets will be automated for when new climate datasets become available on the USGS Geo Data Portal (http://cida.usgs.gov/climate/gdp/ - content no longer available). This will ensure continued relevancy of project results, future opportunities for research and assessment of potential climate change impacts on hydrologic resources, and comparison between generations of climate data. To share and distribute the...

Categories: Project; Tags: 2013, All Funded Projects, Best Practices, Completed, Computational Tools and Services, All tags... Data Release, Data and Information Assets, Publication, Web Application, Web Service, Fewer tags

Hydroclimate Projections for Select U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Properties - Mountain-Prairie Region, 1951-2099 - South Dakota

This data release contains time series and plots summarizing mean monthly temperature and total monthly precipitation, runoff, and streamflow from the U.S. Geological Survey Monthly Water Balance Model at 115 National Wildlife Refuges within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, UT, and WY). The four variables are derived from two sets of statistically-downscaled general circulation models from 1951 through 2099. The three variables were summarized for comparison across four 19-year periods: historic (1951-1969), baseline (1981-1999), 2050 (2041-2059), and 2080 (2071-2089). For each refuge, mean monthly plots, seasonal box plots, and annual envelope plots were produced...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Bear Butte National Wildlife Refuge, Karl Mundt National Wildlife Refuge, Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge, National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge, South Dakota, Waubay National Wildlife Refuge, effects of climate change, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Hydroclimate Projections for Select U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Properties - Mountain-Prairie Region, 1951-2099 - North Dakota

This data release contains time series and plots summarizing mean monthly temperature and total monthly precipitation, runoff, and streamflow from the U.S. Geological Survey Monthly Water Balance Model at 115 National Wildlife Refuges within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, UT, and WY). The four variables are derived from two sets of statistically-downscaled general circulation models from 1951 through 2099. The three variables were summarized for comparison across four 19-year periods: historic (1951-1969), baseline (1981-1999), 2050 (2041-2059), and 2080 (2071-2089). For each refuge, mean monthly plots, seasonal box plots, and annual envelope plots were produced...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Appert Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Ardoch National Wildlife Refuge, Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge, Audubon National Wildlife Refuge, Bone Hill National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Brumba National Wildlife Refuge, Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Camp Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Canfield Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Dakota Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, Florence Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Half-Way Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Hiddenwood National Wildlife Refuge, Hobart Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Hutchinson National Wildlife Refuge, J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge, Johnson Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Kellys Slough National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Alice National Wildlife Refuge, Lake George National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Nettie National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Otis National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Patricia National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Zahl National Wildlife Refuge, Lambs Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Little Goose National Wildlife Refuge, Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Lords Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Lost Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge, Maple River National Wildlife Refuge, McLean National Wildlife Refuge, National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota, Pleasant Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Pretty Rock National Wildlife Refuge, Rabb Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Rock Lake National Wildlife Refuge, School Section Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Shell Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Sheyenne Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Sibley Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Silver Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Slade National Wildlife Refuge, Snyder Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Springwater National Wildlife Refuge, Stewart Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Stoney Slough National Wildlife Refuge, Storm Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Stump Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Sunburst Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge, Tomahawk National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge, White Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Wild Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Willow Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Wintering River National Wildlife Refuge, Wood Lake National Wildlife Refuge, effects of climate change, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Simulation of Water Availability in the Southeastern United States for Historical and Potential Future Climate and Land-Cover Conditions

Abstract: A study was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GCPO LCC) and the Department of the Interior Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, to evaluate the hydrologic response of a daily time step hydrologic model to historical observations and projections of potential climate and land-cover change for the period 1952–2099. The model simulations were used to compute the potential changes in hydrologic response and streamflow statistics across the Southeastern United States, using historical observations of climate and streamflow. Thirteen downscaled general circulation models with four representative concentration...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation

2. National Hydrologic Geospatial Fabric Refactored Hydrofabric

8.27 - updated with feedback from Mike J. ------------------------------------------------------- The National Hydrologic Geospatial Fabric Reference and Derived Hydrofabrics is a geospatial dataset used for hydrologic modeling, containing a network of connected rivers, lakes, and catchments. It consists of four different network representations: Reference Fabric, Refactored Fabric, target-size Hydrofabric, and Point of Interest (POI) Aggregated Hydrofabric. Each representation is designed to meet specific modeling needs by providing different levels of consolidation and aggregation of the hydrographic features. The dataset includes features and attributes representing hydrologic locations associated with observational...

Tags: Conterminous United States, Geographic Information Systems, Hydrologic Response Units, Hydrologic modeling, Points of Interest, All tags... Routing Network, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Accelerating advances in continental domain hydrologic modeling

In the past, hydrologic modeling of surface water resources has mainly focused on simulating the hydrologic cycle at local to regional catchment modeling domains. There now exists a level of maturity among the catchment, global water security, and land surface modeling communities such that these communities are converging toward continental domain hydrologic models. This commentary, written from a catchment hydrology community perspective, provides a review of progress in each community toward this achievement, identifies common challenges the communities face, and details immediate and specific areas in which these communities can mutually benefit one another from the convergence of their research perspectives....

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation

Inter-annual and spatial variability of Hamon potential evapotranspiration model coefficients

Abstract (from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169414010087): Monthly calibrated values of the Hamon PET coefficient ( C) are determined for 109,951 hydrologic response units (HRUs) across the conterminous United States (U.S.). The calibrated coefficient values are determined by matching calculated mean monthly Hamon PET to mean monthly free-water surface evaporation. For most locations and months the calibrated coefficients are larger than the standard value reported by Hamon. The largest changes in the coefficients were for the late winter/early spring and fall months, whereas the smallest changes were for the summer months. Comparisons of PET computed using the standard value of C and computed...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Hamon, Potential evapotranspiration, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, All tags... South Central CASC, Surface water hydrology, Water balance, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags

Reference Fabric Area Intersection Weights

This data release contains a series of tabular crosswalks with spatial weighting for facilitating the conversion of spatial data between different hydrographic networks and spatial units. The child items in this repository contain the following types of intersections: 1) polygon to polygon 2) polygon to raster 3) flowline to polygon 4) point to network The format of these files is zipped csv containing three columns: id_source, id_target, and weight where: id_source is the case insensitive identifier of the polygons requiring weights. id_target is the case insensitive identifer of the polygons of the target data to be intersected with the id_source. weight (w) is the fractional overlap of id_source to id_target,...

Categories: Data; Tags: biota

4. National Hydrologic Geospatial Fabric Point of Interest Aggregated Fabric

The National Hydrologic Geospatial Fabric Reference and Derived Hydrofabrics is a geospatial dataset used for hydrologic modeling, containing a network of connected rivers, lakes, and catchments. It consists of four different network representations: Reference Fabric, Refactored Fabric, target-size Hydrofabric, and Point of OInterest(POI) Aggregated Hydrofabric. Each representation is designed to meet specific modeling needs by providing different levels of consolidation and aggregation of the hydrographic features. The dataset includes features and attributes representing hydrologic locations associated with observational data, cataloging, or reporting water data quantity or quality, and structures important to...

Tags: Conterminous United States, Geographic Information Systems, Hydrologic Response Units, Hydrologic modeling, Points of Interest, All tags... Routing Network, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Hydroclimate Projections for Select U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Properties - Mountain-Prairie Region, 1951-2099 - Nebraska

This data release contains time series and plots summarizing mean monthly temperature and total monthly precipitation, runoff, and streamflow from the U.S. Geological Survey Monthly Water Balance Model at 115 National Wildlife Refuges within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, UT, and WY). The four variables are derived from two sets of statistically-downscaled general circulation models from 1951 through 2099. The three variables were summarized for comparison across four 19-year periods: historic (1951-1969), baseline (1981-1999), 2050 (2041-2059), and 2080 (2071-2089). For each refuge, mean monthly plots, seasonal box plots, and annual envelope plots were produced...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge, National Wildlife Refuge, Nebraska, North Platte National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Valentine National Wildlife Refuge, effects of climate change, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Hydroclimate Projections for Select U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Properties - Mountain-Prairie Region, 1951-2099 - Montana

This data release contains time series and plots summarizing mean monthly temperature and total monthly precipitation, runoff, and streamflow from the U.S. Geological Survey Monthly Water Balance Model at 115 National Wildlife Refuges within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, UT, and WY). The four variables are derived from two sets of statistically-downscaled general circulation models from 1951 through 2099. The three variables were summarized for comparison across four 19-year periods: historic (1951-1969), baseline (1981-1999), 2050 (2041-2059), and 2080 (2071-2089). For each refuge, mean monthly plots, seasonal box plots, and annual envelope plots were produced...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Black Coulee National Wildlife Refuge, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, Creedman Coulee National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Hailstone National Wildlife Refuge, Hewitt Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Mason National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Thibadeau National Wildlife Refuge, Lamesteer National Wildlife Refuge, Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge, Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, National Wildlife Refuge, Pablo National Wildlife Refuge, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Swan River National Wildlife Refuge, UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge, War Horse National Wildlife Refuge, effects of climate change, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Hydroclimate Projections for Select U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Properties - Mountain-Prairie Region, 1951-2099 - Colorado

This data release contains time series and plots summarizing mean monthly temperature (TAVE) and total monthly precipitation (PPT), runoff (RO), and streamflow (STRM) from the U.S. Geological Survey Monthly Water Balance Model at 115 National Wildlife Refuges within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, UT, and WY). These four variables are derived from two sets of statistically-downscaled general circulation models from 1951 through 2099. Three variables (TAVE, PPT, and RO) were summarized for comparison across four 19-year periods: historic (1951-1969), baseline (1981-1999), 2050 (2041-2059), and 2080 (2071-2089). For each refuge, mean monthly plots, seasonal box plots,...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge, Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge, Baca National Wildlife Refuge, Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado, All tags... Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge, National Wildlife Refuge, Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, effects of climate change, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Developing a VisTrails Platform for Modeling Streamflow Hydrology and Projecting Climate Change Effects on Streamflow

Hydrologic models are used throughout the world to forecast and simulate streamflow, inform water management, municipal planning, and ecosystem conservation, and investigate potential effects of climate and land-use change on hydrology. The USGS Modeling of Watershed Systems (MoWS) group is currently developing the infrastructure for a National Hydrologic Model (NHM) to support coordinated, comprehensive, and consistent hydrologic model development and application. The NHM is expected to provide internally consistent estimates of total water availability, water sources, and streamflow timing, and measures of uncertainty around these estimates, for the entire United States. VisTrails, a scientific workflow and provenance...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CASC, Completed, Data Visualization & Tools, Data Visualization & Tools, All tags... North Central, North Central CASC, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags

Hydroclimate Projections for Select U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Properties - Mountain-Prairie Region, 1951-2099 - Wyoming

This data release contains time series and plots summarizing mean monthly temperature and total monthly precipitation, runoff, and streamflow from the U.S. Geological Survey Monthly Water Balance Model at 115 National Wildlife Refuges within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, UT, and WY). The four variables are derived from two sets of statistically-downscaled general circulation models from 1951 through 2099. The three variables were summarized for comparison across four 19-year periods: historic (1951-1969), baseline (1981-1999), 2050 (2041-2059), and 2080 (2071-2089). For each refuge, mean monthly plots, seasonal box plots, and annual envelope plots were produced...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Cokeville Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Hutton Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge, National Elk Refuge, National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Pathfinder National Wildlife Refuge, Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming, effects of climate change, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Pre-fire predicted burn severity for estimating hazard of post-fire debris flow for conservation populations of blue-lineage Colorado River Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii pleuriticus) in the Upper Colorado River Basin

These data were compiled for/to estimate predicted pre-fire burn severity for estimating hazard of post-fire debris flow for conservation populations of blue-lineage Colorado River Cutthroat Trout. Objective(s) of our study were to predicted burn severity. These data represent predicted pre-fire differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) for portions of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming and were created for the extent of historic distribution of blue-lineage Colorado River Cutthroat Trout in 2016-2022. These data were created by the U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center using remote sensing and ecological modeling processes and techniques. These data can be used to compare observations of post wildfire...

Tags: Aquatic Biology, Climatology, Colorado, Colorado River cutthroat trout, Dirty Devil River, All tags... Ecology, Forestry, Geography, Green River, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Sentinel-2, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah, Wyoming, Yampa River, biota, burn severity, dNBR, data release, datasets, differenced Normalized Burn Ratio, environment, fire damage, fires, fish, freshwater ecosystems, hazards, landslides, machine learning, modeling, post-fire debris flow, remote sensing, river reaches, river systems, water quality, wildland fire, wildlife biology, Fewer tags

Hydroclimate Projections for Select U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Properties - Mountain-Prairie Region, 1951-2099 - Utah

This data release contains time series and plots summarizing mean monthly temperature and total monthly precipitation, runoff, and streamflow from the U.S. Geological Survey Monthly Water Balance Model at 115 National Wildlife Refuges within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, UT, and WY). The four variables are derived from two sets of statistically-downscaled general circulation models from 1951 through 2099. The three variables were summarized for comparison across four 19-year periods: historic (1951-1969), baseline (1981-1999), 2050 (2041-2059), and 2080 (2071-2089). For each refuge, mean monthly plots, seasonal box plots, and annual envelope plots were produced...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, National Wildlife Refuge, Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, Utah, All tags... effects of climate change, inlandWaters, Fewer tags