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Continuous Hydrologic and Water Quality Monitoring of Vernal Ponds
Published on: November 13, 2017
A hydrological simulation dataset of the Upper Colorado River Basin from 1983 to 2019
Hoang Tran1, Jun Zhang2, Mary Michael O'Neill3
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. hoangtran@Princeton.edu.
Abstract:
This article presents a hydrological reconstruction of the Upper Colorado River Basin with an hourly temporal resolution, and 1-km spatial resolution from October 1982 to September 2019. The validated dataset includes a suite of hydrologic variables including streamflow, water table depth, snow water equivalent (SWE) and evapotranspiration (ET) simulated by an integrated hydrological model, ParFlow-CLM. The dataset was validated over the period with a combination of point observations and remotely sensed products. These datasets provide a long-term, natural-flow, simulation for one of the most over-allocated basins in the world.
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