Available Water Capacity for the Upper Colorado River Basin in Maurer et al. (2002) Climate Data resolution (awc_UCRB_Maurer_resolution.asc)

Description

awc_UCRB_Maurer_resolution.asc is an Esri ASCII grid representing the available water capacity (AWC) for the Upper Colorado River Basin. AWC is the amount of water that a soil can hold, and is between a soil’s field capacity and the wilting point. In Soil-Water Balance model recharge simulations, AWC is multiplied by root zone depth to define the maximum water capacity of a cell, and any soil-moisture exceeding this amount is converted to recharge.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.968cd43b-fb43-4542-ab75-83a3c7e5153f.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EQCB58

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  • environment
  • utah
  • groundwater
  • colorado
  • wyoming
  • upper-colorado-river-basin
  • soil-water-balance
  • usgs-968cd43b-fb43-4542-ab75-83a3c7e5153f
  • geoscientificinformation
  • california
  • inlandwaters
  • arizona
  • groundwater-recharge
  • new-mexico
  • nevada

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