DS-777 Average Annual Actual Evapotranspiration, 1940 to 1949, in inches estimated from the Soil Water Balance (SWB) Model for the High Plains Aquifer in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
Description
The water-budget components geodatabase contains selected data from maps in the,
"Selected Approaches to Estimate Water-Budget Components of the High Plains,
1940 through 1949 and 2000 through 2009" report (Stanton and others, 2011). Data
were collected and synthesized from existing climate models including the Parameter-Elevation
Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) (Daly and others, 1994), and the Snow
accumulation and ablation model (SNOW-17) (Anderson, 2006), and used in soil-water balance
models to compute various components of a water budget. The methodologies used to compute
the averages and volumes for the data in this geodatabase are slightly different for different
components and models.